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The instructions contained in the PDF are still valid, but clunky and being deprecated soon.

Here's the hypothetical situation.  You are using a public computer or lab machine, or any windows computer you don't own.  It would typically be difficult to use RemoteApp from these machines because you can't make any permanent changes.  Today, the WebClient largely fills this need, but as it isn't perfect yet. 

So, if you find yourself on a public computer and find that the WebClient isn't working well for your particular application, there is an option.  This process involves downloading individual .RDP files each time you want to launch a remote application. Windows has a built in Remote Desktop Connection that will run these .RDP..  The RDP file tells the Remote Desktop Client which application you want to open.  Technically, the "RemoteApp and Desktop Connections" method that we recommend for WIndows 10 users is merely an automated way of downloading and using these .RDP files in a seamless way.

Microsoft has added the ability to download RDP files from the new HTML5 website (The same place you would use the WebClient from).

The "new" old way of downloading .RDP files is below:

1. Open a browser and go to https://virtual.krannert.purdue.edu
2. Click "Open the WebClient"
3. Log in with your username and password (no need for "krannert\"
4. If you were to click an icon, it would open in the web browser.  In order to download .RDP files instead, click the Gear icon in the upper right corner of the site.
5. Click 'Download the rdp file" then click the X to return to the folder list.
6. Now, when you click a RemoteApp, the site will download an .RDP file to your computer instead of launching the app in a browser.
7. When you run the .RDP file on Windows, it will typically launch Remote Desktop Connection by default.