TS Remote App Web Access

[Guest alvinswim]

We recently installed a test 2008 server with Terminal Services along with

all the terminal services roles. One thing that interests us the most is the

TS RemoteApp functionality.

 

We currently use a third party app that sits on top of a 2K3 TS server that

has a web portal where we control users access to programs, users can see the

programs we want them to see.

 

The TS RemoteApp web portal is a great addition that would allow us not to

need the third party software, however as far as we can tell there is no

capability to restrict access to certain programs we publish, as soon as you

publish an app anyone that can get to the remote app web portal can launch

the programs.

 

The question is: Is there a mechanism to only allow certain users to access

certain applications? We will be using this internally so people would have

domain rights already, but can we restrict which programs they can see or

use??

 

any ideas would be great.

 

thanks

 

alvin

[Guest Rob Leitman [MS]]

Re: TS Remote App Web Access

 

No, that feature isn't in Win2008. The best I can offer is to have

different sets of apps on different TSs, and point separate TS Web Access

web parts to the different TSs.

 

Rob

 

"alvinswim" <alvinswim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:2A044953-8EDA-4389-9D9B-937AE5818D56@microsoft.com...

> We recently installed a test 2008 server with Terminal Services along with

> all the terminal services roles. One thing that interests us the most is

> the

> TS RemoteApp functionality.

>

> We currently use a third party app that sits on top of a 2K3 TS server

> that

> has a web portal where we control users access to programs, users can see

> the

> programs we want them to see.

>

> The TS RemoteApp web portal is a great addition that would allow us not to

> need the third party software, however as far as we can tell there is no

> capability to restrict access to certain programs we publish, as soon as

> you

> publish an app anyone that can get to the remote app web portal can launch

> the programs.

>

> The question is: Is there a mechanism to only allow certain users to

> access

> certain applications? We will be using this internally so people would

> have

> domain rights already, but can we restrict which programs they can see or

> use??

>

> any ideas would be great.

>

> thanks

>

> alvin

[Guest Eugene Sukhodolin]

Re: TS Remote App Web Access

 

> The TS RemoteApp web portal is a great addition that would allow us

> not to

> need the third party software, however as far as we can tell there

> is no

> capability to restrict access to certain programs we publish, as

> soon as you

> publish an app anyone that can get to the remote app web portal can

> launch

> the programs.

 

We just released a freeware tool named RemoteApp Filter for the very

same purpose.

 

What is RemoteApp Filter?

 

RemoteApp Filter is an extension to the TS Web Access feature provided

by Microsoft in its new Windows 2008 Server. RemoteApp Filter make it

possible to filter out applications that are not supposed to be shown

to particular users or groups of users.

 

The home page for this tool is:

http://www.tsfactory.com/page.php?mode=privateview&pageID=49

 

This tool is absolutely free for all and may become a nice addition

for many deployments of TS Web Access.

 

--

Sincerely,

Eugene Sukhodolin

CTO, TSFactory Inc.