

Not publish the icon to the client system. Since the COM server isn’t launched from the published app rdpshell does Since your application sets its notification icon from an out of proc COM server. Rdpshell does not in general show all notification icons, but only the icons created either by the published application or by other processes launched by the published app. In the Remote App case, Explorer doesn’t run however, the Remote App system provides a replacement shell (“rdpshell”) which can handle Explorer’s side of the notification icon conversation and proxy the communication

Notification icons in general are implemented by and depend This is because the icon was set from a COM object and not directly from the published application. This worked well for you in general(normal desktop), but when publishing this applications as a Remote App on Windows Server 2008 the notification icon would not show up.

According to your description, I understand that you are using RDS to deliver some RemoteApps to your customers, and one if its features includes displaying a notification
