TS 2003 Newbie

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Hi all

Looking at setting up a Windows 2003 Terminal Services Server

I've had a quick google about and found the Microsoft pages on installing
the server / licences etc

However I cant seem to find much on installing applications on TS once it is
running

Do apps have to be specially written ?

How would you go about installing a non Office / standard sort of
application ? Does it look in certain directories for applications ? How
does it know which apps to show a remote client etc ?

Sorry if these are all obvious questions

Thanks

Andrew
 
Re: TS 2003 Newbie

I think it depends on what you want to do with the TS Server. I use Citrix
(which TS needs to be installed on the server Citrix goes on), and Citrix
is what manages and hosts my applications. Applications pretty much just
install the same way - they don't have to be "specially" written or anything.
Although, some programs may not work. I'm not sure if Adobe Standard or
Pro works because of the licensing issues - can't create PDFs, or you couldn't
a couple of years ago. Technically, you should have the # of licenses for
the # of people that will be running apps off the server. For example, I
believe when using MS Office, if you have 10 users logging into this server
to use those apps, you'd need to purchase 10 licenses of Office to be properly
licensed, but I could be wrong about that, but I don't think so. I'm not
sure if that goes for other types of programs, you'd have to check with the
Vendor and whether their programs are "compatible" or will "support" terminal
services.

When I used to work at my old job, in most cases, when we'd implement an
"application server" as we called it, we'd just have users remote in using
RDP and use a full desktop - for remote users, people with thin clients, etc.

I normally purchase User CALs, but I think that is just going to depend on
your current setting environment.

You can also use RDP icons to launch programs only rather than a full desktop.
I guess I'm not sure if there is a way to display a list of apps to click
on without using Citrix - I'm sure you'd need some sort of website and I
don't know if that is available or not from MS - maybe with Server 2008?
I don't know...

Sara



> Hi all
>
> Looking at setting up a Windows 2003 Terminal Services Server
>
> I've had a quick google about and found the Microsoft pages on
> installing the server / licences etc
>
> However I cant seem to find much on installing applications on TS once
> it is running
>
> Do apps have to be specially written ?
>
> How would you go about installing a non Office / standard sort of
> application ? Does it look in certain directories for applications ?
> How does it know which apps to show a remote client etc ?
>
> Sorry if these are all obvious questions
>
> Thanks
>
> Andrew
>
 
Re: TS 2003 Newbie

We always do those installs through Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs in
the TS while logged in as an Admin. It's gone smoothly, even for
non-Microsoft applications.

--
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"Andrew Kennard" <b@a.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all
>
> Looking at setting up a Windows 2003 Terminal Services Server
>
> I've had a quick google about and found the Microsoft pages on installing
> the server / licences etc
>
> However I cant seem to find much on installing applications on TS once it
> is running
>
> Do apps have to be specially written ?
>
> How would you go about installing a non Office / standard sort of
> application ? Does it look in certain directories for applications ? How
> does it know which apps to show a remote client etc ?
>
> Sorry if these are all obvious questions
>
> Thanks
>
> Andrew
>
>
 
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