System and method for providing layouts for a remote desktop session

A method for providing layouts for a remote desktop session comprising:

• receiving, at a remote application server, a request from a client device to initiate the remote desktop session;
• extracting configuration information regarding the client device from the request;
• retrieving, from a database, a layout that defines one or more remote applications and configurations for the one or more remote applications to be executed during the remote desktop session, wherein the configurations from the layout retrieved from the database comprise positioning and ordering of one or more application windows of the one or more remote applications in a remote desktop session user interface (UI) provided during the remote desktop sessions monitoring, by the remote application server, attributes of remote applications launched by a user of the client device;
• and transmitting, to the client device, one or more suggested layouts based upon the attributes by comparing the attributes to attributes of existing layouts defined in the database;
• wherein the configurations for the remote applications comprise at least sizing of an application in the remote desktop session UI, alignment of the one or more remote applications, spacing between other applications in the remote desktop session, whether the one or more remote applications are locked in configuration, affinity to a display of the client device, and visibility of the one or more remote applications;
• and the ordering of the one or more application windows indicates which of the one or more application windows is to appear on top of another of the one or more application windows when the one or more application windows overlap, wherein the configurations further comprise whether the one or more remote applications are fixed in configuration and affinity to a display of the client device of the one or more remote applications;
• initiating the remote desktop session with the client device;
• launching the one or more remote applications defined in the layout;
• and configuring the one or more remote applications according to the configurations.