Disclosed are systems and methods for providing layouts for a remote desktop session. According to one aspect, a method comprises receiving, at a remote application server, a request from a client device to initiate a 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 executing on the remote desktop session, 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.