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Terminal Server MS Access RemoteApp

Good Day. I have an app created in Access 2003 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Terminal Server. It has been published as a RemoteApp. We want our people to access this through an rdp in SharePoint. It works but users are then faced with multiple pop ups for Trust issues, network authentication, certificates, many times 3 or 4 hoops to jump through. Is there any way for their credentials to be passed so as to just launch the RemoteApp? Is TS Web Access via a browser a possible approach? We want this app to be as simple as possible for our people to get at. Appreciate any assistance.

Andy Marshall

I know precious little about networking, but from the little that I do know, I would say the following, based on experiences of a similar recent situation (trying to get users in remote offices to be able to access an application hosted in our offices):

- we had to resolve issues with Kerberos authentication (the technology used to pass a user's rights around the network). You might not use Kerberos, but you might need to check your authentication method to see if it is working/not working
- we had to ensure there were network 'trusts' in place between our network domain and the network domains for the remote offices
- we had to ensure the firewalls were configured to allow access for our application

In light of the experiences/time involved trying to get our situation resolved, I sincerely wish you the best of good luck in resolving the issues; unfortunately, ours took months to resolve, and aren't completely fixed even now.

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Jim Dettman (EE MVE)

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Luke Chung

Our paper on Using Terminal Services and RemoteApp to Extend Your Microsoft Access and other Windows Applications Over the Internet discusses the issues around using RemoteApp. We've setup RemoteApp for several clients and host the solution in a robust data center with advanced login and firewalls to address security issues.

See the Network Access and Security Issues section for more information. Hope this helps.

EMCIT

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Sorry for the delay. I forgot about it.

Jim Dettman (EE MVE)

No problems on the delay. But did we end up finding anything concrete?

Did the troubleshooting steps help?

If not, I'm going to de-index this question so it doesn't appear to searches.

Jim.