Okay, I'm really digging Server 2008. I just finished putting up a production Server 2008 in the Terminal Services Role including Remote Apps. This is really slick and far easier than my time in doing the same in the Citrix world. It was really slick and easy to deploy and there are 2 great little utilities for managing it: TS Remote App Manager and TS Web Access Administration. With these you can very quickly create easy ways for your users to run the apps you need. I am moving away from much reason to install any apps locally with this.
The Remote App Manager also lets you create MSI executables for the remote users so they have shortcuts on their desktop to the apps and will even associate the DLLs and file extensions with the Remote App delivery.
My biggest disappointment so far is that the shortcuts don't work for the Mac, you still have to do full RDP connections but we don't have many Mac users right now anyway so it's not too big of a deal to me.
The TS licensing was also easier than it was the last couple of times I licensed TS under Server 2003, no phone calls were necessary and it snapped right to life. No registry hacks to force the TS to go to the specified licensing server either.
And of course some of the reasons to deploy apps via TS include: single location to update or install the apps as necessary, remote desktop and application delivery--half of our employees are off-site so this makes it far easier.
Very slick!
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