Open Doc File with Word via Remoteapp

Server 2012 with RDS. We publish office to some client pc's that do not have office installed locally. Is it possible to associate office files like doc, xls and so on so that when the user clicks to open an office file, the file will use the published office
to open said files? I looked it the file associations of the published office apps on the server. Checked the boxes for doc and docx, updated the connection and tried to open a doc -> opened with wordpad and not the published word app. Is this possible?

Answered and discussed in related thread:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverTS/thread/ffe9d4d0-d7eb-4ec5-9891-8b17721057f1
Solution for Word 2013 (copied from thread referenced above):
1. Please download WINWORD.rdp and WINWORD.ico from your Server 2012 webfeed and save them in the following folder (create folder if necessary) on the Windows 7 SP1 workstation (with RDP8 installed):
C:\Users\Public\Documents\RemotePackages
2. Please create the below .reg file:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Word.2013]
"AppUserModelId"="Microsoft.Windows.RemoteDesktop"
"EditFlags"=dword:00100000
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Word.2013\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\Users\\Public\\Documents\\RemotePackages\\WINWORD.ico,0"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Word.2013\shell]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Word.2013\shell\open]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Word.2013\shell\open\command]
@="\"mstsc.exe\" /REMOTEFILE:\"%1\" \"C:\\Users\\Public\\Documents\\RemotePackages\\WINWORD.rdp\""
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.doc]
@="Word.2013"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.doc\Word.2013]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.dochtml]
@="Word.2013"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.dochtml\Word.2013]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.docm]
@="Word.2013"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.docm\Word.2013]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.docx]
@="Word.2013"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.docx\Word.2013]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.docxml]
@="Word.2013"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.docxml\Word.2013]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.dot]
@="Word.2013"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.dot\Word.2013]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.dothtml]
@="Word.2013"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.dothtml\Word.2013]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.dotm]
@="Word.2013"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.dotm\Word.2013]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.dotx]
@="Word.2013"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.dotx\Word.2013]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.odt]
@="Word.2013"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.odt\Word.2013]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.rtf]
@="Word.2013"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.rtf\Word.2013]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.wbk]
@="Word.2013"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.wbk\Word.2013]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.wiz]
@="Word.2013"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.wiz\Word.2013]
3. Please test by applying the .reg file you have created above to the Win7 workstation and then see if the RemoteApp file association works as desired. If it works okay for you I will post more so that you will know what extensions
to use.
4. After you get the above working successfully, next work on customizing it for the specific user path to their workspace feed or other changes you would like to make.
Thanks.
-TP

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