Accessing Remote Applications With PRA

Remote applications allow users to establish connections to desktop applications on remote Windows servers, enabling VPN-less access from any location with an internet connection.

Prerequisites

Administrators will need to ensure that users have the necessary permissions to launch RemoteApps. See RemoteApp Permissions for more information.

For more information on how to setup RemoteApps on your Windows infrastructure, please refer to the Microsoft documentation.

Launch a Remote Application

To launch a remote application:

  1. Navigate to Inventory > Remote Applications

  2. Click the launch icon next to the secret name:

  3. Click Launch Remote Application

    After clicking Launch Remote Application, you may be asked to select a target machine if one was not specified when the remote application was created

  4. Set a secret associated with the remote application.

    This is only necessary if no shared secret was associated with the remote application when it was created.

    Some types of secret templates include Machine fields that refer to one or more target hosts (e.g. the Windows Account template). If a user selects such a secret with a Remote App, PRA will ignore any configured target host asset and attempt to launch the remote application on the target host specified in the secret.

  5. Select a site and click Continue

    You will be asked to select a site only if a PRA site with the same name as the site on the secret does not exist, or if the site exists but no active engine is deployed to the site.

  6. The remote application has been successfully launched.

  7. You may disconnect or logout from the remote application when you are done. Please see the Delinea Menu help to learn more.

A user’s preferences for Launcher Settings found in Account Details > Preferences is used to control Clipboard access. Make sure this toggle is configured to True if you need to use the clipboard functionality. Similar permissions may be needed in a secret as well.

 

Add a New Remote Application

  1. Navigate to Inventory > Remote Applications

  2. Click Add

  3. Fill in all of the required fields marked with an asterisk and other fields, if needed.

    The Application Alias must match the application’s remotely published alias. Alternatively, you can also input the full file path to the remote application.

    A pre-selected shared secret may be used to create a remote application when the RemoteApp host machine needs to be accessed using the same credentials shared across all users. Please note that users launching this RemoteApp will need at least View permissions to that secret in order to access the pre-selected secret.
    If users require user-specific secrets to connect to the RemoteApp host, then this field can be left empty. When users launch the RemoteApp, they will be prompted to select a secret.
    When configuring a RemoteApp to prompt for a secret, users are required to select a computer from their asset inventory.

  4. Click Save.

  5. Your remote application is now created

Edit a Remote Application

To edit a remote application:

  1. Click the three dots menu and select Edit

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  2. The Edit Remote Application screen appears: