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This is ZENworks Desktop Management 7 and in this video we're going to discuss creating terminal server application objects. The later versions of ZENworks, starting with Version 4 and of course being refined in Version 6.5 and Version 7 allows you to create application objects that will run a published application off of a Citrix presentation server or off of a Microsoft terminal server. This greatly eases the job of a network administrator of an application delivery specialist by allowing you to publish an application on one of several presentation servers or terminal servers and then as those servers are retired or added to, you can simply modify one application object or a few application objects and update it across your entire Enterprise. Now, for the purposes of our lab, we will go through setting up one of these terminal server application objects but since I don't actually have a functioning presentation server or Microsoft terminal server in our lab, we won't actually be able to run any of these when we discuss how all of this looks on the end user's workstation. So let's jump right in, shall we? We'll go into Console 1 and we'll right click Applications and choose New, Application and choose to create a Terminal Server Application. We will name this particular application Remedy TS for Remedy run off of a terminal server and we'll hit Next. We are now prompted as to whether this particular application is off of a Citrix ICA or presentation server or off of a Microsoft terminal server. The ICA server option is honestly a little easier to manipulate. You simply have to give it the application name as it is published inside your presentation server form and add in here the names or IP addresses of the servers that host this application and you're done. For the RDP session, there are a few more options. With the RDP session option, you only are able to specify a single terminal server. Now, obviously this could be the front of a load balancer or you could be doing load balancing inside of terminal services in some way. But you will enter the terminal server address, either by name or by IP. You will enter the port number if it is anything other than the default of 3389 and you will also enter the Active Directory domain that the server belongs to. You're also prompted to the path to the application on the terminal server, as well as it's working directory. Now, you can press this Browse Button over here for either of these fields; however, you'll notice that it starts browsing on the local machine and not on the terminal server. And that's just one thing to keep in mind. You'll generally know the path to the application on your terminal server before you get to this point. But if not, you'll have to actually force the Windows browser to go to the terminal server and then modify the path afterwards. So we'll go back to ICA session since to be honest this is the most commonly-used option in production deployments that I've seen and we'll choose Next. We'll say to always show the icon. We will not associate it with anyone right now and we will display the details after we finish. You'll notice on terminal server applications we have a new tab up top labeled Terminal Server Client. It looks just like the box when we set up the application object. Had we chosen the Microsoft Terminal Services Option, it would look just like that. And as with web application objects, there's nothing really under Run Options other than Application Dependencies, which we will cover elsewhere in the tutorial and under Distribution Options you can have a version number that you can update whenever this application object is updated to force it to re-cache if you are caching your application objects. So as you can see, setting up a terminal server application object is a very straightforward process, much like the simple application objects and the web application objects and it's also just as easy to maintain as those type of application objects. And this concludes our discussion of creating terminal server application objects.