Re: Looking for a Microsoft License expert to help...

On 11/30/2005 12:18 PM, Tom Jedrzejewicz wrote:

>On 11/30/05, Roger Vicker, CCP <rv-lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>>- I wouldn't be comfortable with a user remote controlling to the
>>>server for day-to-day business.  Keep the server that is being
>>>replaced, take off SQL and have the user to continue to remote control
>>>to it instead of the new server.
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>>Agreed and thought of that. The issue still remains if the remote site
>>expands. When I looked at using regular Server 2003 and adding SQL the
>>cost was so much higher than using SBS 2003 I even thought of putting a
>>minimum to do the application PC local and having the remote use
>>UltraVNC to control it. But there is a point where a server running
>>Remote Desktops is cheaper than a bank of cheap PCs.
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>If expansion at the remote site is likely it is more important to get
>the RAS off of the main server.  Using the replaced server for
>terminal services you should be able to support several sessions at
>the same time, although there may be licensing issues.
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For the archives and others following.

In doing some research on a Linux product for the local YMCA I ran
across a similar named company. Thinsoft Inc www.thinsoftinc.com.

They have a product called WinConnect Server XP that allows a MS Server
2003 or *XP workstation* to become a RDP server for up to 21 remote
desktop sessions. And the cost is only $300 for three clients.

With this product it makes a lot more sense to setup a local minimum XP,
but with beefy memory, as the RDP server and use MS 2003 SBS Premium for
the file/application server.

Thanks everyone.

Roger Vicker, CCP