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IIS 7.0 doesn’t need to be installed prior to installing TS Web Access the role installation wizard will advise you of any dependent roles and offer to install them automatically. One other item of note is that the TS Web Access server does not require terminal services to be installed on the same server it can operate as a stand-alone role. However, the following steps include installing terminal services so you can test with a single Windows Server 2008 instance – just know that it isn’t required. The TS Web Access role requires two things: Windows Server 2008 (obviously) and Internet Information Services 7.0. By default, Windows Server 2008 contains no installed roles. Windows Server 2008 now uses a role-based installation wizard to add components, as opposed the traditional way of using Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel. Windows services can no longer be installed individually. Instead, the appropriate role is installed on the server using the Roles component found in the Server Manager MMC Snap-in.

Installing Terminal Server Web Access on Windows Server 2008 Think of TS Web Access as kind of a “Citrix Web Interface lite” it includes the basic functionality to display and connect to published TS RemoteApp programs through a web page, but there isn’t much else in terms of flexibility. For instance, TS Web Access can only display RemoteApp programs from a single terminal server, and although there are ways to front-end an entire terminal server farm with TS Web Access, it either requires all terminal servers to host an identical set of applications, or you must leverage Microsoft SharePoint server to aggregate multiple TS Web Access web parts in a single interface. However, I’ll cover this in part two first we’ll get TS Web Access installed. The new TS Web Access interface serves multiple purposes. First, it performs the same function as the old TSWeb product where users and administrators can connect to a specific terminal server or Remote Desktop-enabled system via a web page. However, the new feature most people will be interested in is the ability to present Windows RemoteApp programs to end-users though a web page.Ī common misconception is that Microsoft’s new features of Windows Server 2008 will obsolete many third-party terminal services add-on companies and their products however, that’s not really the case. Although Microsoft has released TS Web Access with Windows Server 2008, it has some significant shortcoming compared to the traditional sense of “web access”.

#HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS TERMINAL SERVER 2008 DOWNLOAD#

Previously, TSWeb, a web-based RDP front end, was available for download from Microsoft as a means of remotely connecting to terminal servers from a web-based front-end. Unfortunately, the functionality ended there – you couldn’t connect to specific applications easily and it was fairly static in nature.

Windows Server 2008 now offers a new feature called TS Web Access, which allows organizations to provide a web-based front end to applications published in a terminal server environment. Other key new features include Terminal Services RemoteApp (formerly Windows®Remote Programs), which provides seamless published applications to end users, and Terminal Services Gateway, which provides secure access to RemoteApp applications over 128-bit SSL encryption similar to the Citrix Secure Gateway. Web-based access to published applications has long been a feature reserved for Citrix Presentation Server deployments or terminal server environments where other 3rd party add-ons were leveraged, such as those from Provision Networks, 2X or the like. This segment, part one, will focus on an overview of TS Web Access and the installation of the role. Part two will focus on configuration options in TS Web Access, requirements necessary for access, and ways to use TS Web Access to front-end an entire terminal server farm.

#HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS TERMINAL SERVER 2008 HOW TO#

Windows Server 2008 contains a plethora of new features associated with Terminal Server. A new key component is Terminal Services Web Access, a Citrix Web-Interface-like interface that provides web-based access to applications published via Terminal Services RemoteApp. This two-part article series will explore what this new feature means to terminal server deployments as well as how to set up and use Terminal Services Web Access.

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