Michael, Did you ever get an answer on this? I am looking at rolling this out in the new year, and the ActiveX and end user issue is one of mine also!
Cheers Shaun -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Leone Sent: 07 November 2013 17:46 To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] Win 2012 RDS - Q about installing ActiveX control via GPO I could use a pointer or two about this. I have my Win2012 RDS test environment mostly set up. I have a session host, web access host and published some apps. Now I am looking at the end user experience. We use our own self-signed certificates (already installed on the web access and session hosts), so I know I need to push my internal CA cert out via GPO (I can look up the specifics on how to do that). The first time the user accesses the web interface, they are prompted to install an ActiveX control. OK, I understand that. I don't want the users prompted (don't trust them to answer correctly or sanely). But how do I push that ActiveX control to all users? And how do I get a copy of the control itself, because I'm sure I need to provide a copy of it to the GPO, to be pushed. We're OK with the users accessing things via a favorite URL, and we can add that to the default domain policy. We're OK with the users entering their credentials to sign into RDS, so we don't need to configure SSO. We're OK with not pushing out the apps to show up in the "Remote App and Desktop Connections", and instead limiting them to access via URL in a browser. But I do want them to not have to be prompted for the ActiveX control to be installed. (ideally, I'd like them to not be prompted Searching hasn't seemed to turn up a specific set of steps to accomplish the above paragraph. Can anyone assist? AD: Win2008 R2. RDS environment = Win2012. Clients=Win 7 (maybe some WinXP; I'm still looking into that).
