Guest RogerS Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 I am running a peer-to-peer network (mixed OS from XP Home, XP Professional to Vista Basic and Vista Basic Premium) at the moment but my company has opened a new office in a different state. The office is connected via VPN to our main office and I have an access based database application that is used over the VPN. The application runs very slow in the existing environment (it is installed on a XP Pro computer) and it was suggested to me to use Terminal Services. Here are my questions as a newbie to TS: - Do I need Windows Server 2003 or can I purchase just Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services? (I've read that in order to use TS I will need TS Cals, but are not in need of a Domain or a Windows Server)... .... or is TS an integrated part of Windows Server 2003. If anybody could help me clear this confusion I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you in advance. Roger
Guest Bruce Sanderson Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 Re: New to TS Client/Server type database applications do tend to be slow over (slow) WAN links becuase of the large amount of network traffic they generate. Running such applications in Terminal Services can be very beneficial. You might want to discuss this with the application vendor - not all applications will function well in a multi-user environment such as Terminal Services, which can be a problem - often there are solutions or work-arounds.. Terminal Services is included with Windows Server 2003. A default installation of Windows Server 2003 allows Terminal Services to be used for remote administration only. To use it for applications, you would add the Terminal Services Role. You can not purchase Terminal Services separately - its part of the server product. Each user or device will require a Terminal Services Client Access License. For Terminal Services to operate, you must have the Terminal Services License Manager service installed on one server (can be the same one that has Terminal Services installed) and import the CALs. CALs can be either per user or per device. Note that for the server product itself, you also need to acquire Server CALs. See http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/terminalservices/default.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/howtobuy/licensing/overview.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/howtobuy/licensing/ts2003.mspx -- Bruce Sanderson MVP Printing http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question. "RogerS" <RogerS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:468B8E81-A106-4899-861C-DD0F8D310879@microsoft.com... >I am running a peer-to-peer network (mixed OS from XP Home, XP Professional > to Vista Basic and Vista Basic Premium) at the moment but my company has > opened a new office in a different state. The office is connected via VPN > to > our main office and I have an access based database application that is > used > over the VPN. The application runs very slow in the existing environment > (it > is installed on a XP Pro computer) and it was suggested to me to use > Terminal > Services. > > Here are my questions as a newbie to TS: > - Do I need Windows Server 2003 or can I purchase just Windows Server 2003 > Terminal Services? > (I've read that in order to use TS I will need TS Cals, but are not in > need > of a Domain or a Windows Server)... > > ... or is TS an integrated part of Windows Server 2003. > > If anybody could help me clear this confusion I would greatly appreciate > it. > > Thank you in advance. > > Roger
Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 Re: New to TS RogerS <RogerS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > I am running a peer-to-peer network (mixed OS from XP Home, XP > Professional to Vista Basic and Vista Basic Premium) at the moment > but my company has opened a new office in a different state. The > office is connected via VPN to our main office and I have an access > based database application that is used over the VPN. The application > runs very slow in the existing environment (it is installed on a XP > Pro computer) and it was suggested to me to use Terminal Services. > > Here are my questions as a newbie to TS: > - Do I need Windows Server 2003 or can I purchase just Windows Server > 2003 Terminal Services? > (I've read that in order to use TS I will need TS Cals, but are not > in need of a Domain or a Windows Server)... > > ... or is TS an integrated part of Windows Server 2003. > > If anybody could help me clear this confusion I would greatly > appreciate it. > > Thank you in advance. > > Roger In addition to Bruce's reply, note that I've heard that straight-up Access databases may not work well in this config. A front-end Access/back-end SQL is a better config. Just FYI.
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