On 07/10/2014 14:31, Gwil Selwood wrote:
> I’ve been wanting our place to consider TS remote app to deal with
> large software items:-
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Desktop_Services#RemoteApp
>
> It’s flexible – although you need application servers, you can get
> sccm to distribute a little msi / rdp package to clients and the
> distribution can be made scalable and redundant. There are few
> points at which the application in question is installed.
> Implementation is improving and there are rdp clients for many
> different platforms.
>
> The trouble is that teams seem to be locked into a desktop
> application and server OS mindset and are as a consequence too busy
> or disinterested in it to seriously consider it.
Some factors in our thinking on that subject;
- licensing / server infrastructure cost.
- network infrastructure. Some of our centres have decent networking,
but many are still 1GB to the room / 100MB to the desk.
- Most of the large applications we have are used for classes, which
means many users starting the application simultaneously.
For the latter scenario, we haven't found a better solution than having
the app already installed locally to each device (and ideally an SSD in
that device) before the user even logs in. Minimising bottlenecks,
essentially, and having any bulk data transfer happen well before the
user turns up.
It's also considerably less complex (or, at least, the complexity has
been and gone by the time the user turns up).
Mike
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