Looking for some software for terminal server farm.

[Guest Jub Jub]

My company hosts our software on a 10-15 W2K terminal server farm for our

clients. Access is controlled through an AEP NSP Tarantella secure gateway

appliance. Our clients log in to the NSP gateway and then they are directed

to their particular terminal server. The clients are locked down through

group policies in the domain and have barely any access at all. They log in,

the program launches for them and they work, etc.

 

We are talking with a potentional client who uses a web based program

currently and one thing they like about it is that as their users log in they

get messages popped up to them on a 'whiteboard'. We would like to match that

ability to gain them as a client.

 

I can see a way to do that through notepad.exe or wordpad.exe in the start

up of each user's profile. However in order for it to be somewhat interactive

but still keep them locked down in group policy we would have to have some

sort of elaborate batch files copying/deleting files to all users profiles,

etc. Before embarking on that process I was wondering if anyone knew of any

software for purchase that might fit this situation?

[Guest Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: Looking for some software for terminal server farm.

 

Do you mean some sort of Message of the Day software?

There's lots of them, most are freeware. Search Google.

_________________________________________________________

Vera Noest

MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net

___ please respond in newsgroup, NOT by private email ___

 

=?Utf-8?B?SnViIEp1Yg==?= <Jub Jub@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote

on 10 jan 2008 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> My company hosts our software on a 10-15 W2K terminal server

> farm for our clients. Access is controlled through an AEP NSP

> Tarantella secure gateway appliance. Our clients log in to the

> NSP gateway and then they are directed to their particular

> terminal server. The clients are locked down through group

> policies in the domain and have barely any access at all. They

> log in, the program launches for them and they work, etc.

>

> We are talking with a potentional client who uses a web based

> program currently and one thing they like about it is that as

> their users log in they get messages popped up to them on a

> 'whiteboard'. We would like to match that ability to gain them

> as a client.

>

> I can see a way to do that through notepad.exe or wordpad.exe in

> the start up of each user's profile. However in order for it to

> be somewhat interactive but still keep them locked down in group

> policy we would have to have some sort of elaborate batch files

> copying/deleting files to all users profiles, etc. Before

> embarking on that process I was wondering if anyone knew of any

> software for purchase that might fit this situation?