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Working With Terminal Services Remote Applications (Part 5)

Date - Jun 23, 2009

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

How to create traditional Windows Installer packages for remote applications.

Working With Terminal Services Remote Applications (Part 4)

Date - May 19, 2009

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

How to access remote applications over the Internet using TS Web Access.

Working With Terminal Services Remote Applications (Part 3)

Date - Apr 21, 2009

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

Hosting a remote application and generating an RDP file, demonstrating some settings that we did not mention in part 2.

Working With Terminal Services Remote Applications (Part 2)

Date - Mar 17, 2009

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

A walk through the configuration process necessary for application hosting.

Working With Terminal Services Remote Applications (Part 1)

Date - Feb 24, 2009

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

Discussing a Windows Server 2008 feature called Terminal Service RemoteApp, which allows you to host individual applications on a Terminal Server.

Writing Terminal Service Based Scripts (Part 14)

Date - Dec 03, 2008

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Scripting

How to add additional terminal service functionality to our existing script framework.

Writing Terminal Service Based Scripts (Part 13)

Date - Nov 19, 2008

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Scripting

This article continues the series on terminal service scripting by integrating the Query Session command into our existing script.

Writing Terminal Service Based Scripts (Part 12)

Date - Oct 08, 2008

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Scripting

How to configure a script to accept user input.

Writing Terminal Service Based Scripts (Part 11)

Date - Sep 10, 2008

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Scripting

This article continues the series on terminal service scripting by beginning the creation of a session management script.

Writing Terminal Service Based Scripts (Part 10)

Date - Aug 13, 2008

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Scripting

This article continues my series on terminal server scripting by talking about menus and subroutines.

Writing Terminal Service Based Scripts (Part 9)

Date - Jul 09, 2008

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Scripting

This article continues the series on terminal server scripting by talking about menus and subroutines.

Writing Terminal Service Based Scripts (Part 8)

Date - Jun 25, 2008

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Scripting

This article continues the Terminal Service Scripting series by explaining how we generated a date based filename.

Writing Terminal Service Based Scripts (Part 7)

Date - May 14, 2008

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Scripting

This article continues with the series on creating terminal service based scripts by explaining the inner workings of the script that we created previously.

Writing Terminal Service Based Scripts (Part 6)

Date - Apr 02, 2008

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Scripting

This article continues with the series on creating terminal service based scripts by beginning to take a look at using a script to create a report.

Writing Terminal Service Based Scripts (Part 5)

Date - Mar 05, 2008

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Scripting

This article continues the series on terminal service based scripts by introducing a couple more commands that you can use in your scripts.

Writing Terminal Service Based Scripts (Part 4)

Date - Feb 06, 2008

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Scripting

This article continues the discussion of terminal service related commands by talking about a command that you can use to send messages to terminal service users.

Writing Terminal Service Based Scripts (Part 3)

Date - Jan 16, 2008

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Scripting

This article continues the series on writing terminal service based scripts by discussing more of the commands that are available to you.

Writing Terminal Service Based Scripts (Part 2)

Date - Dec 19, 2007

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Scripting

How you can use a command line environment to create various scripts that assist with tasks encountered during day to day terminal server operations.

Writing Terminal Service Based Scripts (Part 1)

Date - Nov 14, 2007

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Scripting

How you can use a command line environment to create various scripts that assist with tasks encountered during day to day terminal server operations.

Using 2X ApplicationServer to Publish Applications, Part 6

Date - Oct 24, 2007

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Management Tools

This article concludes the series on 2X ApplicationServer by showing you how to configure a published desktop, and how to publish an individual document.

Using 2X ApplicationServer to Publish Applications, Part 5

Date - Oct 03, 2007

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Management Tools

How to create and configure application groups.

Using 2X ApplicationServer to Publish Applications, Part 4

Date - Sep 19, 2007

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Management Tools

How to fine tune published applications.

Using 2X ApplicationServer to Publish Applications, Part 3

Date - Aug 29, 2007

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Management Tools

How 2X ApplicationServer can be used to host individual applications in a terminal service environment.

Using 2X ApplicationServer to Publish Applications, Part 2

Date - Aug 01, 2007

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Management Tools

How 2X ApplicationServer can be used to host individual applications in a Terminal Service environment.

Using 2X ApplicationServer to Publish Applications, Part 1

Date - Jun 20, 2007

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Management Tools

The benefits of being able to host individual applications in a Terminal Service environment and the basic architecture involved in running 2X Application Server in an organization containing multiple Terminal Servers.

Changes to Terminal Service Security Related Group Policy Settings in Windows Vista and Longhorn Server

Date - May 16, 2007

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Security

The group policy object settings that are related to Terminal Service security in Windows Vista and Longhorn Server.

Using SoftGrid to Support the Use of Conflicting Applications in a Terminal Service Environment - Part 2

Date - Apr 10, 2007

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Virtualization

How application virtualization works and how SoftGrid allows you to move applications between terminal servers.

Troubleshooting Common Terminal Service Connection Errors

Date - Mar 13, 2007

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

Possible reasons why a client’s attempt to establish a connection to a terminal server might be refused.

Using SoftGrid to Support the Use of Conflicting Applications in a Terminal Service Environment - Part 1: An Introduction to Application Virtualization

Date - Feb 14, 2007

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Virtualization

How Microsoft SoftGrid allows otherwise incompatible applications to run on a common server.

An Introduction to Terminal Services Remote Programs (Part 4)

Date - Dec 27, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

How to create and deploy a Windows Installer package.

An Introduction to Terminal Services Remote Programs (Part 3)

Date - Dec 06, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

How to distribute the remote programs that were authorized in the previous article.

An Introduction to Terminal Services Remote Programs (Part 2)

Date - Nov 21, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

This article leads through the rest of the configuration process.

An Introduction to Terminal Services Remote Programs (Part 1)

Date - Oct 11, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

This article will introduce you to a new type of Terminal Service session called Terminal Services Remote Programs.

An Overview of Longhorn Server?s Terminal Service Gateway (Part 5)

Date - Sep 27, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Security

This article concludes the series by demonstrating how to create resource groups and resource access policies that control user access to resource groups.

An Overview of Longhorn Server?s Terminal Service Gateway (Part 4)

Date - Sep 13, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Security

In this article, I will explain how to configure IIS and how to create a Connection Authorization Policy.

An Overview of Longhorn Server?s Terminal Service Gateway (Part 3)

Date - Aug 31, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Security

In Part 2 of this article series, I showed you how to create an enterprise certificate authority that could be used to issue SSL certificates to your Terminal Service gateway. In this article, I will continue the discussion by showing you how to configure the Terminal Service gateway to interact with the certificate authority that you created.

An Overview of Longhorn Server?s Terminal Service Gateway (Part 2)

Date - Aug 15, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Security

In this article, I will continue the discussion by showing you how to confirm that the necessary services are installed correctly. From there, I will show you how to create a certificate authority that issues the certificates used to encrypt gateway traffic.

An Overview of Longhorn Server?s Terminal Service Gateway (Part 1)

Date - Jul 06, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Security

In this article I will explain how the Terminal Services Gateway makes it easier for remote users to access a terminal server session.

Terminal Service Administration and Folder Redirection

Date - Jun 06, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

If Remote Desktop for Administration is enabled on a server that’s running Windows Server 2003, then the server can not be configured to use offline files and vice versa. In this article, I will explain why that is and how you can decide which of these two features is more important to you.

What to Expect From the Windows Terminal Services in a 64-Bit Environment (Part 2)

Date - May 17, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

In this article, I will continue my discussion by talking about the impact of a move to a 64-bit operating system on your server’s hardware.

What to Expect From the Windows Terminal Services in a 64-Bit Environment (Part 1)

Date - Apr 13, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

In this article, I will discuss why 64-bit servers may be a worthwhile investment for organizations that are currently using Windows Server 2003 based terminal servers.

Creating a Terminal Service Pilot Deployment Program

Date - Mar 22, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

If you have spent much time on this Web site, then you probably know that if properly deployed, the Terminal Services can greatly ease a network’s administrative burden, and can be a huge cost saver for a company. In spite of its many benefits, switching all of the users in the company from a client/server deployment to a thin client deployment is a big undertaking. In this article, I will discuss how to go about performing a pilot deployment for your new thin client environment.

Securing the Windows Terminal Services

Date - Feb 08, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Security

Security is important for just about any computer network, but it tends to be especially important in a Terminal Service environment. Think about it for a moment; users are running applications directly on your server. If a vulnerability exists in an application or in the server’s configuration exists, then the vulnerability could potentially be exploited in an effort to gain access to the underlying operating system. That being the case, it’s worth spending some extra time making sure that you have done a good job securing the Terminal Services. In this article, I will share some security techniques with you.

Running Legacy 16-Bit Applications in a Terminal Service Environment

Date - Jan 04, 2006

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Performance

It may seem strange to talk about applications written for an operating system that has been obsolete for at least ten years, but believe it or not, there are a huge number of companies that still depend on legacy DOS applications for mission critical tasks. Unfortunately, DOS applications do not tend to work well with the Windows Terminal Services. In this article, I will discuss some of the underlying reasons for this incompatibility. After doing so, I will then go on to discuss some possible resolutions for the various compatibility issues.

Managing User Specific Application Configuration Data in a Terminal Service Environment

Date - Dec 14, 2005

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

Today almost every Windows application writes data to the Windows registry during the installation process. Although the way that the application uses the registry isn’t usually a pressing issue on a standard PC, registry key placement becomes crucially important when the application is run in a Terminal Service environment. In this article, I will explain why this is the case and how the Terminal Services manages application related registry entries for multiple users.

Juggling Terminal Service Resources

Date - Nov 17, 2005

Section - Articles & Tutorials / General

Thin client computing has been around for many decades. Although the basic underlying principles are the same for terminal sessions today as they were thirty years ago, the demands made against the servers that host terminal sessions have increased exponentially. Bloated applications and resource hungry operating systems place huge demands on terminal servers. In this article, I will discuss how you can plan your terminal server hardware so that your terminal service environment will run efficiently.

Using the Terminal Services through Internet Information Server

Date - Oct 21, 2005

Section - Articles & Tutorials / Management Tools

Although the Terminal Services can be used as a management tool, sometimes firewall port issues or the unavailability of a Terminal Service client can make using the Terminal Services impractical. However, there is a Web based Terminal Service client included with Windows Server 2003. This client allows you to remotely access a Windows 2003 Server through a Web browser.