Terminal Services Setup

[Guest NC Beach Bum]

I have been using Terminal Services for myself to do server administration

for several years. I VPN on the firewall and then hit the servers for admin

work.

 

I have been tasked with creating a proposal for select employees to work

from home which will require file share access, Outlook, and client server

database application. The existing VPN to the desktop is great as long as

it's a good Internet connection on the remote end. However, my concern is

when folks are in a hotel on a shared connection and they simply don't have

the bandwidth my phone will be ringing off the hook with whiners. Is a

terminal services setup the best route on this? What should I look for and

what about setup's for users? Is there some good documentation on setting

this up for users?

 

Thanks for your thoughts and direction!

 

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NC Beach Bum

[Guest jolteroli]

Re: Terminal Services Setup

 

in gerneral the tcp-header has the so called QOS bit field, which tells the

routers how to handle the packet. e.g.: maximize throughput, minimize

latency. the latter is what you will want, but the providers don't care

about this field, because they encapsulate the original packets and use a

private-header around which controls the routing in their private backbone

and to the available peers. since it is business as usual, they will choose

the cheapest peer and the lowest utilized backbone. in other words, you have

no control over the route (quality of the route) the packets will take!

 

an approach were to reduce the traffic by reducing the visual experince. no

design, no full-drag windows, and so on. this also will reduce the latency,

not linear but alil.

 

citrix offers a so called "local echo option" for their ICA protocol.

basicly, the client guesses (knows) what the server will draw to the desktop

in response to the sent keyb/mouse events and updates the local desktop

immediately. this greatly compensates latency issues in wlan evironments.

but i can't tell you much about citrix.

 

-jolt

 

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>I have been using Terminal Services for myself to do server administration

> for several years. I VPN on the firewall and then hit the servers for

> admin

> work.

>

> I have been tasked with creating a proposal for select employees to work

> from home which will require file share access, Outlook, and client server

> database application. The existing VPN to the desktop is great as long

> as

> it's a good Internet connection on the remote end. However, my concern

> is

> when folks are in a hotel on a shared connection and they simply don't

> have

> the bandwidth my phone will be ringing off the hook with whiners. Is a

> terminal services setup the best route on this? What should I look for

> and

> what about setup's for users? Is there some good documentation on setting

> this up for users?

>

> Thanks for your thoughts and direction!

>

> --

> NC Beach Bum