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Installing Remote Desktop Integration Add-in via enterprise management tools?

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Does anyone have a successful experience getting the RD Integration installed in the Enterprise and not having individtual users install it? We're using the RD integration add-in but it's a pain to get it installed on 100's of PCs. We can't pre-install it per PC via SCCM because the setup program only installs to the user profile. We can advertise it, but each user on shared PCs has to install it separately. Worse, it doesn't install over itself, so we have to script an uninstall and then re-install. Luckily, that doesn't affect the other users on the PC; as long as the add-in is there, the earlier users who installed the integration still have it. The integration is a great feature, but the setup program not anywhere mature enough for enterprise management systems like System Center.

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  • Douglas Noel Profile Picture
    Douglas Noel 3,905 on at

    Hi rejohnson,

    you are right, this is a really annyoying problem. But can you please look at the following thread. Maybe this helps you.

    Export to Excel opening on RDS

    https://community.dynamics.com/ax/f/33/t/162284

     

    can you please have a look at the answer (workaround) from Ben

    4 Jun 2015 7:04 AM

    and the remarks from CJ

    8 Jun 2015 4:02 PM

    I think you don't have to uninstall/reinstall this for every user. If the extensions installes ones (on your template) it maybe sufficient to add the desribed registry keys. (Maybe during Logon Script or something)

    We only do this in a click-me way!  Link/Icon

    Another way could be doing this (checking if avail, if not create it) in the AxClient Start startupPost()

    But this will only have affect starting from the next Session with the client.

    May Windows Policies could be also a way.

    Please try this and posts your  results / examinations and maybe how you will have integrated this in your environment.

    regards

    Douglas

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    Community Member on at

    Thank you so much for pointing me in the right direction!  Ben's registry data was what I needed.  But instead of HKCU, I put the entries in HKLM and it works for all users on the PC.  We now can use a SCCM task sequence to install the add-in, also adding the registry changes to HKLM.  This solves a huge problem of getting the add-ins installed on hundreds of PCs, many of them shared, without user intervention.

    64-bit:

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Default]

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Default\Addins]

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Default\Addins\VirtualChannelClient]

    "Name"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Dynamics AX\\60\\OfficeAddins\\Microsoft.Dynamics.Ax.VirtualChannelClient.dll:

    {3BD45576-CA26-4603-A619-E264F1D10664}"

    32-bit:

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Default]

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Default\Addins]

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Default\Addins\VirtualChannelClient]

    "Name"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Dynamics AX\\60\\OfficeAddins\\Microsoft.Dynamics.Ax.VirtualChannelClient.dll:{3BD45576-

    CA26-4603-A619-E264F1D10664}"

    -Russell

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