Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Windows Longhorn Server - Remote Programs

MSTerminalServices.orgAn Introduction to Terminal Services Remote Programs (Part 1)

"When you think of a Terminal Services session, you probably think of a thin client environment in which all of a user’s applications run on a terminal server, and the user’s PC simply acts as a dumb terminal. Although this has traditionally been the case with the Windows Terminal Services, Windows Longhorn Server will offer a new type of Terminal Service session called Terminal Services Remote Programs. Longhorn Server will continue to offer the type of Terminal Server environment that you are already used to, but you will now have the option of using Terminal Services Remote Programs to create a sort of hybrid user environment in which some applications are installed locally and other applications transparently run on a terminal server. Applications running on a Terminal Server provide the illusion of running locally. In this article, I will introduce you to this new Terminal Service environment.

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This looks like an interesting addition to Terminal Services...

Yeah, we've had something like it with Citrix for a while, but it's cool to see it being baked into Windows.

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