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Terminal Services Versus Citrix

Hi there,

We're going to be expanding our office soon from 5-30 pc's to accomodate an army of volunteers.
We're considering a terminal services solution and I'm looking into this and I'd like to know when
would I choose Terminal Services deployment over Citrix or vice versa?

thanks,

John

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jjbarnsley

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Yes we would want to publish applications to the end-user and we'd like to use Unix clients (debian) to connect to a terminal service. Sounds like I should go for Citrix if I want the advanced capabilities. In addition to what you've commented, are there any other notable capabilities for using Citrix.

I've got other citrix related questions, but I'll post these seperately to be fair.

thanks for your comments.

scrmcna

The company I used to work for tried to use just terminal services and it pretty much blew up on us. We went to Citrix and it worked great. You can use NFUSE with Citrix. Your employees or volunteers would be able to connect to their apps via Internet Explorer. Opening up the possiblity of people working from home. We also had seperate offices connecting via VPN from different towns and cities and we could publish an app right to their desktop making network management easier. You only have to upgrade the app on a Citrix server, you don't have to go to each individual PC and touch it.

jjbarnsley

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thanks for your comments scrmcna