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RE: Terminal services and remote programs.
From: "Thor (Hammer of God)" <thor () hammerofgod com>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 14:53:50 -0700
Nope. Hardware won't really help you here-- graphic intensive programs over RDP will always be limited by the way that screen refreshes work over RDP. You're basically taking data from a direct screen write and packaging it up to send to an RDP client for rendering. Even accessing the host on a local network gives you sketchy performance. You can test this yourself by trying to watch a video (like youtube or something) over an RDP session. You'll see how poor the performance is. Now, this is all contingent upon exactly what your users will be doing -- viewing PDFs or Visio may be fine -- however, actually using the remote desktop to *design* something or to do non-trival work in photoshop will make users commit suicide. But that could be a good thing ;) t
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Halliday [mailto:paul.halliday () gmail com] Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 1:48 PM To: Thor (Hammer of God) Cc: pen-test () securityfocus com Subject: Re: Terminal services and remote programs. Could you expand on this a bit please? Have you seen a setup like this in action? Will decent harware help mitigate this? They will be load balancing across 2 decent servers. Thanks. On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Thor (Hammer of God) <thor () hammerofgod com> wrote:Not to mention that running Photoshop via RDP is a really bad way togofrom a performance standpoint... t > -----Original Message----- > From: listbounce () securityfocus com > [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of Sean Tindall > Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:05 PM > To: pen-test () securityfocus comSubject: RE: Terminal services and remote programs.> > Except that to remain license compliant you need to ensure all ofyour> users have licenses for those applications anyway. > > What you think terminal services or citrix is a CHEAPER solutionthan> deploying apps to desktops? Only on REALLY large scales, and
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> licenses for these apps are still required. > > -----Original Message----- > Hey Paul, > Things like Citrix work exactly like this. So that way you do nothave> to install programs on each and every user workstation; in thiscase> Office and Adobe possibly primarily because licenses are costly. > > > >
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- RE: Fwd: Terminal services and remote programs. Nathaniel Carew (May 01)
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- Re: Terminal services and remote programs. arvind doraiswamy (May 01)
- RE: Terminal services and remote programs. Thor (Hammer of God) (May 01)
- Re: Terminal services and remote programs. Paul Halliday (May 02)
- RE: Terminal services and remote programs. Thor (Hammer of God) (May 02)
- Re: Terminal services and remote programs. Paul Halliday (May 02)
- RE: Fwd: Terminal services and remote programs. Thor (Hammer of God) (May 02)
- RE: Fwd: Terminal services and remote programs. Sat Jagat Singh (May 05)
- RE: Fwd: Terminal services and remote programs. Shenk, Jerry A (May 06)