Hi All. This is not so much a question as a workaround or bug we have found
We have a Remote Desktop Services server publishing multiple applications, office 2013 apps included.
We have demonstrated the following behaviour.
After logging in as a user, and with the applications initially being able to open and work fine, after some time, when they are all closed but your session is still open to rdweb, the applications no longer open. You can click on them, but IE10 simply flashes, and nothing happens
We have found that if you logout and back in, it makes no change. If you kill any IEXPLORER tasks it doesn't make a difference. A Restart resolved it.
However we then found after a while that the MSTSC.exe task was not closing. Killing this task resolved the issue. I cannot determine if the issue is with RDS or with MSTSC on the local machine.
We have demonstrated this on Windows 7 and Windows 8