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How to Ensure your application is TS aware

Thursday, 29 May 2008 by Michel Roth

Wilco van Bragt has written an insightful article about how you can make sure (or check) that your applications will work in a Terminal Server environment. By the way, the mere fact that these articles exist points out one of the strengts in VDI.

So even though more and more manufactures are aware of the Server Based Computing concept and which impact this can have on the usage of the application there are still lots of applications which are not compatible with Server Based Computing. In this article Wilco describes which tests you need to go through to ensure that the application is ready for your SBC infrastructure.

This article should be used in conjunction with a tool by Microsoft that has been specifically written to check for Terminal Server compatibility: Terminal Services Application Analyzer. The tool is currently in beta but provides a truckload of valuable information. It provides a summary of an application’s TS-incompatible behavior. The classes of application compatibility issues targeted for detection are:
1. Shared resources – files/registries
2. Access/privilege issues
3. Windows API calls with special cases for TS

Read Wilco's article here and download the Terminal Services Application Analyzer beta here.