This entire setup (mine and OP) relies on a Windows RDP feature called “RemoteApp” that allows single-application remoting over a transparent RDP session.
RATool lets you configure RemoteApp “apps” on a serving Windows computer, which generates .rdp files which are RemoteApp “application” sessions that can be launched.
RAWeb on top serves those .rdp files in a way that’s compatible with the “remote resource feed” in Remote Desktop/Windows App, which requires hosting it on IIS.
So basically, one Windows VM is sitting on an ESXi server in my house running RAWeb with a bunch of RemoteApp .rdp files I generated with RATool, and all of my RD clients have just a normal list of apps I can launch, as if it was a proper VDI farm.
I’m not doing GPU intensive tasks so this works out fine for me.
RATool lets you configure RemoteApp “apps” on a serving Windows computer, which generates .rdp files which are RemoteApp “application” sessions that can be launched.
RAWeb on top serves those .rdp files in a way that’s compatible with the “remote resource feed” in Remote Desktop/Windows App, which requires hosting it on IIS.
So basically, one Windows VM is sitting on an ESXi server in my house running RAWeb with a bunch of RemoteApp .rdp files I generated with RATool, and all of my RD clients have just a normal list of apps I can launch, as if it was a proper VDI farm.
I’m not doing GPU intensive tasks so this works out fine for me.