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Terminal Services, Legacy Applications, and App Virtulization
Hello Experts,
My goal is to move 15 users in a small office to a 100% terminal services environment which users would connect to via Wise thin clients with thin OS.
They have some legacy apps that I imagine I am going to have trouble with. What is the best solution for legacy apps in a TS environment? It is application virtulization? What would be a inexpensive application virtualization solution?
I have not done a TS or RDS deployment before. Would it be better for me to use server 2003 or 2008R2? Is is realistic to expect that I can accomplish this 100% terminal services environment?
Thank You,
John
My goal is to move 15 users in a small office to a 100% terminal services environment which users would connect to via Wise thin clients with thin OS.
They have some legacy apps that I imagine I am going to have trouble with. What is the best solution for legacy apps in a TS environment? It is application virtulization? What would be a inexpensive application virtualization solution?
I have not done a TS or RDS deployment before. Would it be better for me to use server 2003 or 2008R2? Is is realistic to expect that I can accomplish this 100% terminal services environment?
Thank You,
John
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TreyBcool,
I have installed XenApp Fundamentals but an unclear about the advantage of using XenApp vs just terminal services. Could you enlighten me?
I have installed XenApp Fundamentals but an unclear about the advantage of using XenApp vs just terminal services. Could you enlighten me?
End user experience - their protocol is much much better, printing, usb devices, you can watch HD videos, 32bit applications. I guess, when you centralize, you dont the user experience to change. Citrix accomplishes that. They do require TS though, so its an add on, not a one or the other. But you do get what you pay for.
Well I disagree here.
If we are talking about comparing XenApp to older versions of TS/RDS, sure.
But with 2008 R2 the gap has closed a LOT, especially for small environments.
2008 R2 has it all:
- Web Interface
- Gateway
- Load Balancing/Session Reconnection
- Multimedia redirection (for HD videos for example).
- EasyPrint (Universal driver XPS based).
- Virtual IPs.
- Two way Audio.
And so on. Not to mention with every RDS CAL you now get App-V for free what is IMHO a MUCH better, way more polished application virtualization solution than Citrix own Streamed Profiler.
Add to that 2008 R2 SP1 that will bring RemoteFX to the picture.
So the comment IMHO is not completely accurate. It is not that simple anymore. Each case/requirements must be carefully analyzed before deciding which tool is the best way to go.
Cláudio Rodrigues
Citrix CTP
If we are talking about comparing XenApp to older versions of TS/RDS, sure.
But with 2008 R2 the gap has closed a LOT, especially for small environments.
2008 R2 has it all:
- Web Interface
- Gateway
- Load Balancing/Session Reconnection
- Multimedia redirection (for HD videos for example).
- EasyPrint (Universal driver XPS based).
- Virtual IPs.
- Two way Audio.
And so on. Not to mention with every RDS CAL you now get App-V for free what is IMHO a MUCH better, way more polished application virtualization solution than Citrix own Streamed Profiler.
Add to that 2008 R2 SP1 that will bring RemoteFX to the picture.
So the comment IMHO is not completely accurate. It is not that simple anymore. Each case/requirements must be carefully analyzed before deciding which tool is the best way to go.
Cláudio Rodrigues
Citrix CTP
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