Enhancing Microsoft Terminal Services/
Remote Desktop Services

THINWORX extends the functionality of Microsoft TS/RDS by adding flexibility, manageability and security to deliver a powerful and intuitive server based computing solution.

How THINWORX Leverages TS/RDS

As with a number of other server-based computing solutions, THINWORX utilizes Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Services (including the native RDP protocol) as a base component to deliver multi-user application access. Remote Desktop Services (commonly known as “Terminal Server”) is a software component embedded in Microsoft Windows 2000 (and later) Server platforms. Creating a THINWORX Application Server simply entails the installation of THINWORX software onto a machine with Terminal Server, and joining it into a realm – a deployment process whose ease and speed exceeds comparable solutions.

How THINWORX Enhances TS/RDS

Management and Configuration

  • Server farm distribution: Through the use of virtual cluster servers, THINWORX application servers can be located anywhere within an organization’s intranet or on the Internet, even across multiple, geographically dispersed data centers, and made to appear as a single farm.
  • Powerful web-based management console: THINWORX features a Web-accessible single point of administration (the THINWORX Manager). Built on AJAX technology, this enables an administrator easily and quickly to set up sever farms, manage system resources, configure settings, publish applications, assign applications to users and groups, view site information, generate reports, and more.
  • Detailed reporting: A comprehensive report library provides information on client sessions (both current and historical), server usage, applications usage, system change management and activity tracking.
  • Customizable appearance: THINWORX allows users to customize THINWORX portal pages according their own requirements.

Performance

THINWORX’s server-based computing solution adds value to all popular Windows server platforms, including MS RDS (2008) with the following features:

  • Web-based user portal: a single sign-on point for end-users to obtain/manage/run their remote applications and to manage their own sessions.
  • Seamless window: the remote application presents its windows and task bar information on the user’s local desktop, with the look and feel of a local application.
  • Multi-monitor support for applications: allows display of applications across multiple local monitors connected to the client workstation, with consistent screen distribution of applications across multiple sessions. This is a required feature in work environments where users must handle large amounts of information or undertake multi-target monitoring, i.e. financial services, network or DB administrators.
  • Universal print: significantly reduces printer management needs and improves printing performance for an SBC system.
  • Content redirection: enables end users to access a customized Windows Explorer view (called THINWORX Explorer). Users can then browse published/managed/shared data points (folders) on remote servers along with all local files systems. Files can be opened along with their associated application on the remote server as if they were being executed locally.
  • Multi platforms: in addition to supporting all popular Windows- based clients, THINWORX supports Linux- and Mac- based clients.
  • Dynamic load balancing: intelligent, dynamic load balancing optimizes the use of application server resources and ensures optimum performance for the user community. THINWORX continuously monitors a serial of metrics including server usage, server service schedule, security permissions, application availability, and network access type, and then applies an algorithm to determine the most appropriate server to host a particular client session.

Security

  • RDP security control: THINWORX can be set to block an RDP session (including any one from MS RDP Client directly) to farm servers if the session does not originate from a THINWORX application use.
  • Application security control: THINWORX can prevent an application hosting server from running any unauthorized modules from an authorized application. By contrast, an RDP environment (under MS TS/RDS) enables an end-user to open a DOS prompt from an opened MS Word application.
  • Secure remote access: the THINWORX Secure Router is a full custom SSL VPN solution that creates a secure tunnel between client machine and the Secure Router server through which all THINWORX communication must pass; it functions as the single access point to a THINWORX farm.

Mobility

  • Park/resume/terminate sessions: the end-user can easily park his/her session (along with all opened applications at the server farm), and resume them from any other device and/or location, even if shifting to different platforms. End-users can also terminate opened applications from any location/device.
  • Session Migration: THINWORX delivers seamless transitions as users move between devices (including different platform machines) and locations during an applications session.

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