Samples for External Applications

[MatthewTandy]

Hello, I've been using this remote dektop utility for several years (and it's been great), but i've only ever used it to manage RDP connections.  now I'm wondering if i can improve productivity with these "external applications".  i can't seem to get a handle on what it is exactly though... I've tried some of the examples here - cmd, explorer, etc, but it seems that it's launching applications on my local machine that just *point* to the remote system.  i was hoping that i could use it to run applications that *reside* on the remote system (and do not exist locally) without having a full RDP session.  Am i simply misunderstanding the point of this feature?

I was having the same confusion, but if you use your Navigation side panel and go to the External Applications bit at the bottom you can add them there.

Once they are added they can be accessed on any existing connection by simply right clicking the connection and choosing external applications

I started with a simple ping and set the arguments to -t %computername%

Already this is useful for us