Terminal Services (TS) Remote Configuration Primer Part 1

Terminal Services (TS) Remote Configuration Primer Part II

Terminal Services Team Blog — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:53:03 GMT

How to Configure TS session limit remotely TS provides many settings that allow an administrator to customize

re: Terminal Services (TS) Remote Configuration Primer Part 1

Shannon — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:53:18 GMT

Can you publish applications via WMI too? If not, is there an API for this?

re: Terminal Services (TS) Remote Configuration Primer Part 1

Soo Kuan — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:06:39 GMT

Shannon,

In Longhorn Server, there is a wmi provider (tsallow) with serveral class templates that can be used to populate the Allow List. Please take a look at tsallow.mof located at %windir%\system32\wbem\tsallow.mof

Thanks

Soo Kuan

re: Terminal Services (TS) Remote Configuration Primer Part 1

worthware — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:44:46 GMT

Hi. Since you are a member of the Terminal Services Team could you provide some insight into the following implementation question regarding Windows 2003 Server & Terminal Services & RDP. We are looking at a major deployment of a windows desktop application for 12 thousand users. The hosting company is quite insistent upon Citrix. Our question is could we do this without the use of Citrix and without goinf to 2008 Server Series? If there is a better place to insert this question in order to get a response from yourself or anyone else on th Terminal Server Team kindly let us know where to post this question. Thanks in advance.

re: Terminal Services (TS) Remote Configuration Primer Part 1

Patrick Rouse — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:40:01 GMT

Worthware, this is an inpossible question to answer based only upon quantity of users. Other things that will need to be taken into account would be the number of different applications, compatibility of those applications, how you plan to manage the servers that would be hosting these sessions (as 2008 TS has no centralized management console), how many concurrent sessions, what type of clients you have (Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Linux, Mac, Sun...),.... just to start. What kind of skill-set your IT department has related to Server Based Computing should also be considered, as installing applications on TS, and managing TS is quite different than any other type of Windows Management. For customers that have no experience with Terminal Services, but have a Virtual Inforastructure like VMware ESX or Virtual Iron, I'd recommend looking at a VDI Product like Quest's Provision Networks Virtual Access Suite for VDI. With this you're managing individual hosted XP Pro or Vista Desktops, where the software can be managed by the same desktop team that typically manages the desktops, without needing any knowledge of Terminal Services application compatibility.

Other Terminal Server Add-ons (in addition to Citrix) are Provision Networks Virtual Access Suite and Ericom PowerTerm WebConnect are other add-on suites for Terminal Services.

If you'd like to discuss your situation in detail, feel free to contact me at FirstName.LastName@quest.com

Patrick Rouse

Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

re: Terminal Services (TS) Remote Configuration Primer Part 1

Koldo — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:27:51 GMT

Hi,

I want to publish apps using wmi providers(Using classes of tsallow.mof file as suggest Soo Kuan).

I only got to see published applications, but no way to add new ones.

Somebody know if is possible to got it??

Thanks and excuse my poor english :-)

re: Terminal Services (TS) Remote Configuration Primer Part 1

jmonroe — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:00:14 GMT

For those who use VC++, here is a good article on Enabling TS using WMI in C++.

<a href="http://www.vedivi.com/blog/2008/05/how-to-enable-remote-desktop-programmatically/">http://www.vedivi.com/blog/2008/05/how-to-enable-remote-desktop-programmatically/</a>

Hope it helps the C++ guys like it helped me.

re: Terminal Services (TS) Remote Configuration Primer Part 1

jmonroe — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:02:22 GMT

Sorry, messed up the url, here it is:

http://www.vedivi.com/blog/2008/05/how-to-enable-remote-desktop-programmatically/