RE: External users accessing Excel "application"

From: Wesley Kendall [MSFT] (a-wesk_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/18/04 

Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 19:50:51 GMT

>Until now, I have had only 1 external user. To allow him access to an
>important excel application (a set of highly linked workbooks with a lot of
>VBA intertwined), I set up a computer on the LAN and would have him use
>remote desktop to log in.
>
>Now I will be having more remote only users and am trying to think through
>my options.
>
>My priorities are:
>1) Ease of use for the users.
>2) Manageability for me.
>3) Cost relative to the effect on priorities 1 and 2.
>
>I prefer using remote desktop because it allows full screen mode on a
>secondary monitor, which my users will have. Therefore, I will be sticking
>with VPN into the LAN and RD to the local machine unless someone can talk
me
>out of this.
>
>My question is, can I set up a seperate Windows 2003 server on my SBS 2003
>network install one copy of Excel on this server and have multiple users
>logged in at the same time to thier own desktops all using Excel at the
same
>time?
>Is there a better approach?
>
>Thank you very much in advance.
>-Jeremy

Thanks for posting your question.
If you user machines are WinXP, why not enable the remote users to use
Remote Web Workplace to connect to their machines on the LAN? You won't
have to buy any hardware or software, and the users will access the same
desktop/profile that they access while in the office.
Thanks! 

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