SECURE ACCESS CLIENT

A secure access client can be employed to enforce limitations on a user's access to a file while also allowing the user to access the file using an application of choice. To provide this functionality, the secure access client can implement an RDP client that is configured to create an RDP session with an RDP service executing on the same computing device. The RDP service can allow the secure access client to display the user interface of an application employed to open a file. The secure access client can be configured to selectively apply access limitations on a per file basis. This selective enforcement can be accomplished by only implementing a virtual channel extension to provide a particular type of access to the file when the file's access limitations would allow such access.