Policy

Enable enhanced shell experience for RemoteApp

Microsoft Windows

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Enable enhanced shell experience for RemoteApp
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host > Remote Session Environment
Supported on
At least Windows 11 Version 22H2

Supported OS tags: Windows11

This policy setting enables an enhanced shell experience for RemoteApp sessions, offering support for default file associations, Run/RunOnce registry keys, and more. This policy setting applies only to RemoteApp sessions and does not apply to Remote Desktop sessions. If you enable or do not configure this policy setting, RemoteApp sessions on RD Session Host servers will have the enhanced shell experience. If you disable this policy setting, RemoteApp sessions will not have the enhanced shell experience and will use the legacy shell behavior. This may be needed if compatibility issues arise in published RemoteApp programs.

Internal name
TS_SERVER_REMOTEAPP_USE_SHELLAPPRUNTIME
Policy ID
659f6303a857
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services
Value name
UseShellAppRuntimeRemoteApp
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services
Value name
UseShellAppRuntimeRemoteApp
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

This policy has no additional user input fields.