January 31, 2007

Terminal Services provisioning from a web page

The question: is it possible to set up a webpage to provide access to a Terminal Services based application ?
The answer: Of course ! And without using Citrix, even.

Microsoft offers the Remote Desktop Web Connection as a free addition or download for Windows XP or Windows Server.

This is a Web application consisting of a COM component and a sample connection page. When you deploy Remote Desktop Web Connection on a Web server, you can provide client connectivity to Terminal Servers and other computers using Internet Explorer and TCP/IP.

And the COM component is fully scriptable, making it possible to set up a page on which the user only has to click on a link or a button to go where he or she needs to go.

Links:
Remote Desktop Web Connection
Remote Desktop Web Connection Reference - programming reference

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