Overview
Written for those beginning a design and those determining whether Terminal Services is right for a particular business, this book discusses what is needed to know to successfully deploy Terminal Services on Windows Server 2003. All aspects of implementation and deployment, complete with advantages and disadvantages, are explained, as well as server architecture, sizing, and design strategies; security, printing, and licensing; application installation and configuration; and user environment customization. Also covered are techniques for accessing Terminal Services applications via customized web portals. Written for IT professionals, this book shows that while Terminal Services has been part of the Microsoft Windows Server operating system for more than five years, Microsoft has made many improvements for Terminal Services in Windows Server 2003 that need a thorough explanation.
About the Author:
Brian S. Madden is a Citrix Certified Enterprise Administrator who has helped to pioneer the Internal Application Service Provider strategies in use in many large Citrix environments today. He has been a featured speaker at Citrix events throughout the world and is the author of Citrix MetaFrame XP. He lives in Washington, D.C. Ron Oglesby is a Terminal Server specialist and a senior technical architect with RapidApp. He has designed and implemented some of the largest Terminal Server and MetaFrame server farms in the United States. He is the coauthor of CCA Citrix MetaFrame XP for Windows Administrator Study Guide. He lives in Chicago.
Synopsis
This book is not authorized or approved by Microsoft, Citrix, or anyone else! Instead of vendor marketing speak, this book tells you how Terminal Server actually works. This book is not an administrator's guide. Rather, it's written for IT consultants, system engineers, and architects who must plan, design, implement, and optimize Windows 2003-based Terminal Server systems. It's filled with real-world, proven strategies created specifically for Windows Server 2003. See how some of the world's largest companies are using pure Terminal Server 2003 environments.
- Are you thinking about using Windows Server 2003's Terminal Services capabilities?
- Do you want to use it for a few users, or do you want to use it on a larger scale?
- Are you wondering whether you need to use Citrix MetaFrame or Tarantella New Moon, or if you can use Terminal Server by itself?
- If you're wondering whether Terminal Services will work for you, spend 50 bucks on this book before spending thousands of dollars on licenses.
What's Covered in This Book...
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewHere’s the straight scoop on getting maximum performance and value from Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services.
Bring your toughest Terminal Services challenges. Troubleshooting misbehaving apps, memory leaks, page file and processor usage, erratic spikes, pauses, hangs, sluggishness. Server sizing. Licensing. When you can -- and can’t -- get away without Citrix. Maximizing availability. How to handle the rapid scaling that many Terminal Services environments undergo. How to provide application access via web portals.
Strategy questions (for example, full remote desktops vs. connections to individual apps). Customization to balance user freedom vs. security and stability. Whatever the question, Brian Madden and Ron Oglesby have been there, done that, and will tell you how. Bill Camarda
Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2003 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.