Re: TS 2003 and SBS 2003: user accounts and profiles

From: Vera Noest [MVP] (vera.noest_at_remove-this.hem.utfors.se)
Date: 07/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:11:24 -0700

Make your 2003 TS a member server in the domain, do *not* make it
a second domain controller!
Keep your user accounts on the domain controller. You will be able
to put the existing user accounts into a local group on the TS
called Remote Desktop Users. That way, users have only a single
user account for logging in both on their PCs and the TS.

Where you install the TS Licensing Server is up to you. I would
install it on the DC, but there is no real need for that.

Use roaming TS profiles, located on a network share, not local
profiles. The advantages might not be obvious now, but as soon as
you buy a second Terminal Server, they will. Which of the servers
you should use as home directory and profile server is hard to
say, depends on the load on the DC and the TS.

Here's some more information:

Hosting Applications with Terminal Server
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/pro
ddocs/deployguide/sdcce_term_overview.asp?frame=true

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Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
http://hem.fyristorg.com/vera/IT
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Judge Dredd <123@123.com> wrote in
news:flhtf0lvhcbj8poighv6kb4p50jn1lubtj@4ax.com:

> I've got SBS 2003 running as domain controller, and I'm going to
> be setting up an additional Win2003 box as apllication server
> for TS. Will the user accounts reside on the SBS box? Will the
> TS user profiles I create reside there, or on the TS? Which one
> will have the licensing server running on it? I'd imagine that
> the user accounts and licensing server would be on the same box,
> but what is the "best practice"? thanks in advance!

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