RemoteApp - Advanced Publishing

TruGrid RemoteApp allows users to remotely run applications installed on Windows servers, without revealing the full desktop to the user. You can deploy RemoteApp by following the steps in this article: How to use RemoteApp.

RemoteApp - ADVANCED PUBLISHING is only available for customers running TruGrid Sentry versions v6.3.0.0 or newer. TruGrid RemoteApp has been successfully tested on Windows Server 2016, 2019, and 2022. On Windows Server 2008 R2, PowerShell 5.1 / .NET 4.52 is required.TruGrid RemoteApp is only supported on Windows Servers. It is not supported on Windows Workstations.

This article covers how to use the ADVANCED PUBLISHING feature for ease of management in larger environments that have hundreds of servers and need to publish specific apps instead of all apps on all servers.

Key features of ADVANCED PUBLISHING include:

Allows organizations to publish only specific apps. This is in contrast to the DEFAULT PUBLISHING experience where all apps are enumerated and made available for potential assignment.
Admins can switch between the DEFAULT and ADVANCED PUBLISHING experience without losing apps that have already been assigned, including to whom they were assigned

You can tell that you have ADVANCED PUBLISHING feature enabled when you see the "Manage App Selection" button instead of the "Refresh Available Applications" button.

Advanced Publishing:

Default Publishing:

How to enable Advanced Publishing

Make sure you have followed the procedure to make RemoteApp available in your environment using the instructions from this article: How to use RemoteApp
In TruGrid Admin portal, navigate to Company | Resource Assignment.
If you are already using RemoteApp, you will need to turn them off temporarily in order to turn on ADVANCED PUBLISHING.
When turning on the RemoteApp feature, you will encounter the below prompt, allowing you to choose between DEFAULT and ADVANCED PUBLISHING.

If you choose ADVANCED PUBLISHING, you will be asked if you want to keep your prior app assignments or clear them, in case if Default Remote App Publishing was used in domain before, if it was not used - that prompt will be skipped
On the next screen you will be able to choose from which Computer Groups (containing your RDS hosts) you would like to select apps for Publishing:

From here, select the Computer Group you would like to publish from and make your selection:

When you are done with application selection, choose "Enable" and the apps will be listed for assignment:

Using the Advanced Publishing feature

The major advantage of ADVANCED PUBLISHING over DEFAULT PUBLISHING is that you can select which applications are available from which Computer groups. This selection can always be accessed by selecting the "Manage App Selection" button:

Updated on: 13/08/2025

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