To use the Faculty of Engineering's Remote Applications, you need the latest Microsoft Remote Desktop client for Mac (version
8.0.14 and higher), which can be downloaded from the Mac app store. Once it has been
installed properly, the software will be listed in your application list.
Close the app, use browser to go to https://remoteapps.genie.uottawa.ca.
Login with your uoZone account and select the application you want to use. An rdp file will be downloaded.
To force the .rdp
file to launch with the proper client, highlight it in your downloaded items
and press simultaneously “command” + “i”.
A menu will
appear; expand “open with”, choose the new RDP client, then click sur “Change All”.
Any .rdp file
that will be launched will be opened in the more recent RDP client