Hide the Remote Desktops tab of Remote Desktop Web Access RDS

here is how you can Hide the Remote Desktops tab of Remote Desktop Web Access while configuring RDS. make sure you follow NOTE section at the end.

this I was doing for AX. so a common requirement from security angle is that users should be able to access remote desktop.

this you can do , by just changing some configuration as below in IIS.

open IIS and traverse RDWeb -> Pages -> Application Settings -> change "ShowDesktops" value to false from True.

below is the before and after screen

 

NOTE

below is the main trick. I think not many posts mention this.

if I browse the URL https://<URL.com.local>/RDWeb/Pages/en-US/desktops.aspx means just page desktops.aspx, then user can go in. so be careful and change the page name , so the default page can not be used by users.

 

hope this will help some one.

 

Regards,

Sudhanshu