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From: Ed. on 6 Jan 2010 03:57 Hello All, We've got an application that we will want to make available to a number of users in many different geographical locations. It's not a web based app. They'd only need to be able to see/run this one application. I was originally thinking of citrix but after reading up on TS 2008 Web Access I think this sounds like a good alternative. I have very little experience with terminal services at this point, and have some questions I thought you might be able to help with. If we go ahead with this we'd most likely buy a whole dedicated server and run nothing but this one application on it at this point. -Am I right in saying Term Services 2008 should work well? I like the sound of the web access. -Is it possible to use Terminal Services 2008 so that the user has access to nothing but that one application that we define? -The user's will be customer's of ours so it will need to look professional. Will it present well? Any general feedback / comments / opinion would be very much appreciated. Thanks & all the best - Ed.
From: Bob Campbell on 6 Jan 2010 10:14 >Am I right in saying Term Services 2008 should work well? It sounds like Remote Desktop Services (in Windows Server 2008), formerly known as Terminal Services, is a good fit for your scenario. (Your app is Windows-based, not web based; and your users are customers). Take a look at RemoteApp in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Desktop_Services: "the [Windows Server 2008] terminal server can provide access to only a single program, rather than the entire desktop, by means of a feature named RemoteApp. Terminal Services Web Access (TS Web Access) makes a RemoteApp session invocable from the web browser." So you can run RemoteApp, which gives your users access to a single application, _outside_ of a browser--it looks like a regular locally running application invoked by a desktop shortcut, or you can invoke RemoteApp from your company's web site. You get other good things. Printing to the users' local printers is very easy and trouble free. (It uses the XPS print driver). And security is both easy and better than before. There is a tool/wizard on the server that let's you create a little Microsoft Installation (MSI) file that you send to your users to install the RemoteApp on their desktop. It simply puts the RDP file in C:\Program Files\RemotePackages and a desktop shortcut to the RDP file on the users' computers. Or you can have your users open a web page and click on a link. I think you will be happy. "Ed." <tinman_x(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:edRDG5qjKHA.4048(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > Hello All, > We've got an application that we will want to make available to a number > of users in many different geographical locations. It's not a web based > app. > > They'd only need to be able to see/run this one application. I was > originally thinking of citrix but after reading up on TS 2008 Web Access I > think this sounds like a good alternative. > > I have very little experience with terminal services at this point, and > have some questions I thought you might be able to help with. If we go > ahead with this we'd most likely buy a whole dedicated server and run > nothing but this one application on it at this point. > > -Am I right in saying Term Services 2008 should work well? I like the > sound of the web access. > -Is it possible to use Terminal Services 2008 so that the user has access > to nothing but that one application that we define? > -The user's will be customer's of ours so it will need to look > professional. Will it present well? > > Any general feedback / comments / opinion would be very much appreciated. > > Thanks & all the best - Ed. >
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