Advantages of Desktop-Centric, Application-Centric, Document-Centric, and Content-Centric Approaches

There are four basic approaches to deploying applications to your Terminal Server users: either a desktop-centric, application-centric, document-centric or content-centric approach. The following sections discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each approach, so that you can better decide how you want to set up access to your server-based applications in your environment.

Desktop-Centric Approach

A desktop-centric approach means that your users are each provided a desktop on Terminal Server, and from that desktop they run their applications. If you are using Terminal Server alone, that means you create connection entries to connect to the ...

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