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Now let's take a look at using Remote Apps in Terminal Services. Now, you'll notice that I installed Terminal Services in a different video and I didn't set up licensing and so it's going to remind me now I've got 119 days. Also you'll notice in my Server Manager that I can tell by looking at the roles that I've had some sort of problem. And with Terminal Services, if I click on this, you'll be able to see that I indeed had some errors on this earlier in the day. But I'm ok now and what I want to do now, I'll show you how tough this is to set up Remote Apps, if you'll notice inside the Server Manager, once Terminal Service is installed, you will see TS Remote App Manager. All I have to do is right click and say Add Remote App Program and this opens the Add Remote App Wizard and I'm just going to step through this and show you how tough this is to set up. I clicked on Next and now notice it sees the applications that I can choose from and I'm going to choose Microsoft Office Word 2000 and I will hit Next and then I'll hit Finish. Now, if I scroll down, you'll notice that it has added Word down here as a remote app. Now, what I want to do is create a shortcut that my clients can use to connect to this remote application. And if you all notice, right up here above this is a little link to create an RDP file. OK? So what I want to do is click on the app that I want to create the RDP file for, then click Create RDP file and now it's going to create a shortcut for me that I can use to connect back over to this machine. So I will just take the defaults and I will say OK and notice on my, in my local disk Programs files, Packed Programs, it created one call WinWord. So what I want to do now is I want to connect to my client from here and my client's IP Address is 192.168.2.160 and I'm going to connect to he administrative share and what I'm going to do is go to Users, Mark.Nashville and I will go to the Desktop and I'm going to make this a little smaller so you can see it and I'm just going to drag WinWord shortcut to there, copy it to the Desktop and then close it out. OK? Now, notice I'm in Server Manager here and so what I'm going to do now, thanks to the magic of Virtual PC, I'm going to drag my Windows Distro Client into the picture here. So here's my client and you notice there's the shortcut that I put on the Desktop. OK? Now, this machine does not have Word on it. It does not have Microsoft Word on it. So I will double click my shortcut and notice it's going to ask me to put in my credentials. I'll just do this as the administrator to make it easy. And it says do you trust the computer you're connecting to? And I've got options here. I can allow it to access your local drive, my ports, the clipboard and so forth. I'm going to say yes and Remote Programs I starting and the first few times you'll do this, you'll get into some permissions issues sometimes and you'll have to kind of bang on it a little bit, you know, kind of beat on the side of it to get it to work. But let's see what happens here. We're making a connection back to the server. Notice, it looks like we're going to go through OK. We're waiting for the remote program to start. And so it's now starting Office Word in a memory location on the server and in just a few minutes we'll have access to Word. Now, what's cool about this is the fact I have a computer that does not have the memory requirements, the processor requirements to actually run word, that I can use this to connect back to a Terminal Server and run this and this is great for branch offices, for machines that are in insecure places. Notice Word's going to open and it's going to look and feel just like it's running on the client machine when actually it's running on the server. OK? So if you'll notice there, I'm now running Word and I can type in this, OK? And notice, Word is fully functional. OK? If you notice, it's a slight, slight pause, but not bad. I could certainly work in this. And I couldn't spell that right. So anyway, and then when I'm done I can save and I can save this. Let me get up here and look at my possibilities for saving it. Well, I can go right here. And I can save it and this is on the server. OK? So anyway, I'll cancel that. I don't really want to save this. So anyway, that's using Terminal Services for Remote Apps and I'm going to move the client back again and you will notice that all we have to do now is add more apps and then simply manage them right here in Server Manager on the Server. So that's how you set up a remote app and how you use it. It's a piece of cake, really.

Tutorial Information

Course: Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Author: Mark Long
SKU: 33911
ISBN: 1-934743-96-8
Release Date: 2008-09-10
Duration: 6.5 hrs / 70 lessons
Captions: Available on CD and Online University
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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