Leigh & Peter: I would much prefer to continue using terminal servers. However, unlike your homogeneous user group, my diverse user base of medical researchers relies on mission critical, niche applications whose vendors simply won't support their products running on terminal server. Further, there are no alternate suppliers for these applications.
So, if we want to spread the security and support advantages of Sun Rays to a wider swath of our user population, we must provide individual virtual WIndows instances. It might help to know that my university's license agreement with Microsoft means that virtually all Microsoft products are "free" to my department. This greatly alters the value equation. Much of what we can do in this environment doesn't make economic sense if one must pay commercial pricing for the required Microsoft components. Joe ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Leigh Porter [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 2:39 PM To: SunRay-Users mailing list Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] uttsc to Win 2012-Based Virtual Instances A little off topic.. But I'm using Windows Terminal Server for user desktops at the moment. I did have a load of Windows 7 instances on VMWare which users rdesktoped into but I thought that a little inefficient so I moved it all to terminal services.. We're a secure NOC environment with about 30 people all pretty much running exactly the same software at the same time. Why would you choose individual desktop instances over a terminal service? Just wondered! -- Leigh ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Craig Bender [[email protected]] Sent: 16 November 2012 18:48 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] uttsc to Win 2012-Based Virtual Instances Not alone it doesn't, but when I mentioned "you can specify that server side" I meant the Microsoft Server Side. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
