Terminal Services Advanced Client

I an new to Terminal Services and I am currently researching this
technology with a view to seeing how viable it is to implement for my
company's needs.

My company is based in the UK and we have several partner organisations
based in Europe, Japan and the US. We have a VB application that
connects to a SQL Server database using ADO. Our partners use the same
application that we use in the office except that the data they receive
is filtered horizontally. The experience our partners get is that
operations that are often instantaneous or take very little time to
execute when running the application in the office takes up to 20
minutes when executed at the partner organisation. I feel that this
could be due to network latency issues as large datasets are being
transferred.

So I'm hoping Terminal Services is a solution to this problem. As I
understand it because the application is running off the server and all
that is being transmitted are the keyboard/mouse commands from the user
and all the user receives in effect is a bitmap that there will not be
network latency issues or certainly not to the same extent.

I have been informed though that 'Terminal Services Advanced Client
activeX control is the way forward' and that 'Microsoft will be phasing
out Terminal Services client as a desktop application'. Does anyone
know if this is the case: should I be concentrating on Terminal
Services Advanced Client activeX control rather than the Terminal
services client. I can't seem to find much information about Terminal
Services Advanced client activeX and its implementation.

Any help gratefully received.

Thanks

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