Publishing a Network Folder from a Guest VM
You can publishing a filesystem folder via UNC path to open in Windows explorer. To minimize the number of configuration steps, a special publishing item is available that allows you to publish a network folder from a guest VM.
To publish a network folder:
- In the RAS Console, select the Publishing category and then click the Add icon below the Published Resources tree (or right-click inside the Published Resources box and click Add in the context menu). This will launch the publishing wizard.
- On the Select Item Type wizard page, select Folder on the file system and click Next.
- On the Select Server Type page, select Virtual guest VM and click Next.
- On the Virtual Desktop UNC Folder wizard page, specify the usual application properties.
- In the UNC path field, enter the UNC path of the folder you wish to publish. Click the [...] button to browse for a folder (it may take some time for the Browse for Folder dialog to open).
- Specify the Virtual guest VM settings as described in Publishing an Application from a Guest VM.
- Click Finish to publish the folder and close the wizard.
When published, the network folder will appear in the Publishing > Published resources list, just like any other application. To view its properties, select it and then click the Virtual Desktop Application tab:
- The Target property will always be set to
PublishedExplorer.exe . This binary is created automatically (via agents pushing) and is simply a copy of the standard explorer.exe executable. - The Parameters property specifies the network folder that we want to publish. The folder path can be in any format that the
explorer.exe can handle.
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