Re: External users accessing Excel "application"
From: Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] (sbradcpa_at_pacbell.net)
Date: 03/19/04
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 20:41:07 -0800
This is called a Terminal Services set and yes, you can do this and run
"thin clients" over the web like this.
Jeremy Gollehon wrote:
> Wesley,
>
> Thanks for the reply! However, these user do not have internal machines on
> the LAN.
> They work in an external office all the time. Remote desktop is enabled
> through RWW for my local users when they travel, but this is a different
> situation.
>
> I need these users to log in to use the XL app, but I don't want to buy a
> bunch of local machines just for them to Remote Desktop into. I was hoping
> that the Windows Server 2003 solution I asked about below would work. If I
> find out it can't, then my other idea was to use Virtual PC 2004 on a
> powerful machine and load up a few virtual Windows XP machines for people to
> log into.
>
> Will the plain Server 2003 solution work with multiple users logging in and
> using XL at the same time, or would I have to resort to a Virtual PC type of
> solution? Is there another avenue I haven't thought of?
>
> Again, thanks for the reply.
> -Jeremy
>
>
> Wesley Kendall [MSFT] wrote:
>
>>>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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