Update HTML 5 Remote Desktop Web Client

The HTML 5 Remote Desktop Web Client for Windows RDS Deployments is regularly updated by Microsoft. However, the HTML 5 Web Client updates are not available through Windows Updates and have to be manually installed.

To see the latest release notes for the Latest HTML 5 Remote Desktop Client please visit:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/clients/web-client-whatsnew

Once you have installed the HTML 5 Web Client it is important that it is regularly updated following your patching policy.

To update the HTML 5 Web Client:

1. Open a PowerShell console as Administrator (Right-click run as Administrator) on the Server running the RD Web Access role. Run the command below which will download the latest available version of the web client.

Install-RDWebClientPackage

2. Now that the latest web client has been downloaded. It can be published by running the command below which will replace the client for all users.

Publish-RDWebClientPackage -Type Production -Latest

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