I'm using Windows Server 2016 for Remote Desktop Services (RDS) the applications I've published are working fine. I've created a logon script so that my windows application starts when a user establishes RDS session. My problem is when a user logs in and my application runs automatically it doesn't show icon notification in system tray. I've gone through the below link and added the registry key which fixed the issue but it had also shown all unwanted application's icon as well.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/lync/en-US/4122521f-7896-4098-a723-858077a243f1/remoteapp-notification-area-icons-not-visable?forum=winserverTS
Is there any way that I could programmatically dictate "rdpshell" to show only my application icon? or if there is any registry key specifically I could use for my application? or anything that I could use to show my application icon only?
Thanks.
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We use Openkiosk ( Firefox browser Based ) - credits MDG for kiosk operation of our web application running through IIS ( MVC web app) and SQL Serever . We have configured it to automatically start on windows log in by using the GPO - custom User Interface and it works perfectly fine.
The purpose of launching the web application in full screen is to prevent Desktop access to the user and also disable all short cut keys .
Of late we have received a new requirement where we have to Launch another desktop app ( exe. ) on demand when the Openkiosk is open and switch in between both the Openkiosk app as well as the exe app whenever the user requires . Since the desktop is not visible how we launch the Desktop is the question and also ,Since the Key board is disabled Alt Tabs wont work. Kindly advise and guide how we can achieve this ?
Still figuring it out how to achieve this
I have a requirement to host a WCF service to receive responses from a service. As UWP app doesn’t have wcf hosting capabilities, I chose this system tray component where I will host my service so that I get responses and communicate to UWP app via app service and show toasts.
But the systray component terminates immediately after the launch. To be clear on my systray integration with uwp I already tested it and is working and then extended it with WCF hosting.
Later I tried adding debugs showing message box on exceptions and found out that WCF service open call throwing below exception.
"System.ServiceModel.AddressAccessDeniedException: HTTP could not register URL http::1234"
Later understood that the sys tray app requires admin rights to register the URL that is hosted as part of the service and as UWP app launches sys tray via full trust API and it doesn't do through admin elevation.
So to solve this I got 2 approaches and tried as mentioned below:
1)
So I tried adding URL reg manually using netsh and same program works. Just to tweak I tried running the "same netsh command in sys tray app itself with admin priv" and only launched the tray app and i could see no exception and could see my service hosted, checked in browser.
Now I'm stuck with providing admin privileges while launching the sys tray app via UWP app.
But if tray app is launched by UWP, even though I included the netsh command it still shows the same exception. (Might be parent process (as run as admin is N/A UWP apps) is not having admin rights so even my netsh cmd in sys tray app is not working??? )
OR is there any way to provide arguments or any other API to run the tray app with admin via full trust api's from UWP app???
2)
Tried adding app manifest file to the tray app and modified as below
<requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="false" />
But this also shows a error box saying this requires elevation and exited.
Kindly Help.
Requesting elevated privileges is currently not supported for desktop-bridge processes. So what you are seeing here is currently expected. The good news is that we are adding a new capability in RS5 (Fall 2018 update) called 'allowElevation', which will enable scenarios that require elevation.
You should be able to start testing the new capability with the latest Windows Insider Preview build and the corresponding SDK.
UPDATE 10/1/2018: I have posted a sample for this new capability
https://stefanwick.com/2018/10/01/app-elevation-samples-part-1/
I have created a VB NET application that is installed with a installer project (MSI). Installer works perfectly, app functions as designed.
On a Windows 2008 Server R2 (Standard), the first time I log in the application starts with the wrong icon/task bar group. It starts with the IBM Tivoli command line icon or GUI icon with those options in the group.
After I close my application and open it a second time, I have the correct icon and taskbar group.
If I log into the box and start a different application, then my application, I get the correct icon/group.
Things I have tried...
Uninstalling/reinstalling multiple times
Confirmed my application is advertised
Deleted the icon cache for my profile
More information (from continued trouble-shooting)...
If I set taskbar buttons to "Never Combine" I get the correct icon for my app, but not the correct group options (right click).
If I pin the IBM Tivoli command line to the taskbar, this problem goes away. My app starts with the correct icon/group every time.
If I pin my app to the taskbar, the problem also is resolved every time.
So this problem is only occuring when neither app is pinned to the taskbar.
Another update...
This issue occurs in multiple environments (same server configuration).
This issue does not occur with a user account that did not perform the install. Only the installing account gets the behavior.
Solution...
This had nothing to do with my application or IBM Tivoli, it is a bug in certain versions of Windows...
KB 2519550
This KB hung up the box on restart, but once I hard cycled it, the problem was resolved.
I'm making a Windows Store app that gets files from a server and store it locally for quick access. I also want to make it sync the file with Dropbox and push changes to Dropbox if the user make any. I looked into CachedFileUpdater and it seems to work if I use another Windows Store app to edit the file. However I ran into a great trouble trying to monitor changes made by a desktop app. This matters a lot because many files are office documents and Office 2013 is available to Windows RT and I would also like the app to be available to Windows 8.
First I tried to use CachedFileUpdater on all files but when I open the file using a desktop app, it will be opened in read-only mode and I can't save it in desktop mode. If I dont use it if the user chooses to open it with desktop app, the change will be saved but later my app won't be able to access that file somehow. I guess it is because the owner changes to the desktop app. Now not only I seem to have no way to monitor the file changes, but also can't I access those changes once it is modified by a desktop app.\
Is there some trick that may help? Thank you very much!
It seems to me that if the user installs another browser on Windows 8, the default tile for Internet Explorer should change to that new browser. However, it doesn't seem like Chrome or Firefox currently does this. Is it even possible to replace the IE tile with the tile for another app programmatically?
You can't do that.
All Windows store applications work in a sandbox environment and doesn't have access to core OS api's. App's are restricted to core OS api's so that malicious applications cannot change system setting without user knowing about it.
Start Screen is OS level, and Apps do not have acces to the order of tiles. If they had, user would loose all personalization made as every App would move itself to the first row and column, as Raymond Chen stated.