Re: Terminal Services to view only applications

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Rich, the downside of this strategy is that each application would launch in
a different Terminal Services Session, so your scaleability would go in the
toilet, and applications that need to talk to one another would not work.

Session sharing is a fundamental requirement when using published
applications, unless you have a specific reason to disable it. 2003 TS just
does not have this capability out of the box.

--
Patrick C. Rouse
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
SE, West Coast USA & Canada
Quest Software, Provision Networks Division
Virtual Client Solutions
http://www.provisionnetworks.com


"Rich Raffenetti" wrote:

If you give a user an rdp file which starts an application on login, the
user will see only that application and will logoff when the application
exits. See the Programs tab on the rdp edit window. This demonstrates how
it works.

The next step is to put up a web page which has icons for the applications
and which download and execute the rdp files behind the icons when the icons
are clicked. Therefore you do not need to distribute the rdp files and
maintaining them is easy.

After that you can use group policy to take away user ability to see things
on the desktop which launch applications. The rdp files will still work ok.
That discourages users from logging in to the TS since they will not find
the usual tools (icons, run command, etc.). Be careful that you do not
apply the policy to admins. (Some of these policy items have to be
explicitly reversed to negate them. Just taking the policy away does not
negate some items.)

Clever users can still make up an rdp file to launch other applications but
that would be too much for most.

"ThomasT." <ThomasT@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

You can use RAC (Remote Application Center), it's freeware. Download it
here:
http://www.mqtechnologies.com/

Regards

Thomas.T


<whitethomas12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am currently using Windows 2003 Terminal Services in application
mode. I am wondering if it is possible to only have the end-user see
the application versus viewing the server desktop along with the
application. I know I can configure the service to open the
application upon login, but I do not want the user to open the
desktop; similar to citrix

Thank You





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