Windows Small Business Server 2011 : Customizing a SharePoint Site - Customizing Companyweb (part 2) - Adding RemoteApps Links - Add the RD Web Access Role Service

2. Adding RemoteApps Links

If you have an RD Session Host on your network and you’re using RemoteApp programs, you can extend your Companyweb site to add links to those RemoteApp programs directly on your users’ home page. The process has four basic steps:

1. Add the RD Web Access role service on the SBS 2011 Standard server.

2. Register the Web Part as a safe control.

3. Create a folder to store the Web Part.

4. Add the Web Part to Companyweb.

2.1. Add the RD Web Access Role Service

The default installation of SBS includes the functionality of the RD Gateway role service of Remote Desktop Services, but it doesn’t actually include any of the Remote Desktop Services role and doesn’t include the RD Web Access role service. So the first thing you need to do is add the Remote Desktop Services role and the RD Web Access role service, using the following steps:

1. Open Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Manager from the Start menu.

2. Click Roles, and then click Add Roles from the Action menu to open the Select Server Roles page shown in Figure 11.

   Figure 11. The Select Server Roles page of the Add Roles Wizard

   

3. Select Remote Desktop Services and click Next to open the Remote Desktop Services page that includes an introduction to Remote Desktop Services.

4. Click Next to open the Select Role Services page shown in Figure 12.

   Figure 12. The Select Role Services page of the Add Roles Wizard

   

5. Click Next and then click Install to add the RD Web Access role service to the SBS server. When the installation completes, you’ll see the Installation Results page shown in Figure 13, warning you that you’ll need to do some additional configuration to RD Web Access.

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   Note:

   In most cases, you won’t need to restart the SBS server when you add this role service, but you might need to add additional updates the next time the server checks for updates.

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   Figure 13. The Installation Results page of the Add Roles Wizard

   

6. Click Close to return to Server Manager. You can close the Server Manager console; we’re done with it for now.