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a device that terminates serial connections and provides a way for those terminals to connect to services across the network. Terminal servers can also connect modems to the network providing for PPP service aka dial-up Internet.

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When does it make sense to use Terminal Service Gateway?

We've been using XRDP which was developed by one of the fellows who used to work at my company, but I'm pretty sure it's not being too actively developed any more and we're running out of people who care enough to administer Linux (except for…
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How can I determine how much RAM and Processer each RDP session is using on a terminal server

I currently have 4 Terminal Server "in a cluster environment" each employee starts an RDP session to to do their daily work. Now, my company is expanding and we need to add more users. What I need to do is to see how many more terminal server I need…
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How many users can connect to Windows 2003 Terminal Server at the same time?

If I have one Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server and 200 TS-CAL:s (per Device), how many simultaneous connections can users make from those devices to this Terminal Server?
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Certificate issue with RemoteApp on Server 2008

I am trying to set up a proof-of-concept demo for deploying applications via RemoteApp, the application-streaming-over-RDP stuff in Windows Server 2008. The TS Gateway server (call it srv-web) and the box hosting the applications (call it srv-app)…
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Terminal Server CPU usage at 100%

I'm running a terminal server with around 50-60 users,and every so often the server will go from > 40% usage to 100%. I took a closer look an it seems every time this happens, a different user or two seem to be caught in a loop and end up using <…
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Want to start using thin clients

Hello I run a network of about 25 computers all connected to a SBS 2003 server I want to start using thin clients as building a computer for all the new employees we are getting is time consuming, plus all the other benefits of it. I quickly looked…
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Something like "Terminal Services" for Mac OS X?

Possible Duplicate: Mac OS X multi-user thin client server (terminal server)? Hi, Is there a product (preferably a free or included one) that allows for one to connect to a otherwise headless desktop/server session running on an OS X box? As in,…
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Does Citrix XenApp use less network traffic than VNC or Remote Desktop?

I read in Wikipedia that XenApp is based on GDI commands sent over the network instead of based on images sent over the network like VNC does; does XenApp use less network traffic then Terminal Server? I ask because when our users use the VPN to…
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Terminal Server disk performance

Our users experience slow session performance at times during normal work hours. Applications (IE, Office Apps etc.) are slow to respond so is switching between them. This problem happens sporadically and below is some troubleshooting that took…
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Can I disable sticky keys through a Group Policy for all users?

Our users are constantly managing to turn sticky keys on and then call tech support because their keys are bring up windows instead of typing letters. Is there a way to disable StickyKeys in Group Policy? I tried disabling it on the server itself,…
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Terminal Server hosted on cloud server or traditional VPS?

We're looking into alternatives for our very small datacentre at the moment. We have two Windows 2008 terminal servers that serve RemoteApps that we're looking to move off-site first off (and if we could combine this into just one server, that's a…
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Mandatory Profiles on a Server 2003 TS Box

I have a Windows Server 2003 box which will be acting as a terminal server. It will actually be running Citrix, but I don't believe that to be relevant here. There has been a request for every user to use a single mandatory profile. I've used…
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stdout to gnu screen copy buffer

Is there a command in GNU Screen to direct standard output to the copy buffer I've been doing alot of work with files, it's great to copy and past the filenames I want into commands e.g. ls | grep proc $ ls | grep cal calendar.inc-gen.php // enter…
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printer settings changes when RDP to the terminal server

Let me explain the problem. I have network printer mapped on the workstation. Printer on this workstation is set to print as black&white only. I RDP to the Terminal Server and printer is getting populated there as well automatically. Unfortunately…
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Instability issues on Windows 2003 R2 32-bit Terminal Servers

We are experiencing issues with instability on some of our Windows 2003 32-bit TS'. After a lot of Googling my suspicions are that it is running out of Page Table Entries (PTE's). From what I can gather this is a problem when using /3gb switch on…
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