Terminal Services

[Scott]

Does MSP support the use of Terminal Services or Citrix to increase the perfomance over a WAN?

 

[Rob Schneider]

Does MSP support the use of Terminal Services or Citrix to increase the perfomance over a WAN?

As long as it it is properly installed and configured on the terminal
server, it should work.

It won't necessarily increase performance. The only thing you are
avoiding is doing a File/Open across the LAN. You can fix this much
easier than than complexity of Terminal server simply by copying the
file form the server via the WAN onto the local workstation, then
editing from there. When done, copy back. Of course, if there are many
users involved where file contention might be involved, this becomes a
less practical approach.

 

[Stuart]

-----Original Message-----
Does MSP support the use of Terminal Services or Citrix

to increase the perfomance over a WAN?

.

We installed Citrix and it speeded up our access by as
much as a fctor of 10 (10 times faster). When external
links, global resource pools and global Mpts are used,
opening a single project took as long as 27 minutes
(large master project stretching over 15 years). We can
now open the same project in under 60 seconds on a single
server installation.

We have had some problems with collaboration and opening
the desktop from the web but have managed to resolve
these.

Thanks,

Stuart

 

[Dale Howard]

Scott --

Microsoft recommends that companies use Terminal Services for accessing
Project Server over a WAN. I worked with a client in France and accessed
their corporate Project Server system in Pennsylvania, and the performance
time was as fast as when I was working in the corporate office in
Pennsylvania. When I forgot to use Terminal Services in France to access
their Project Server, it took me 20 minutes to open a file. Hope this
helps.

Does MSP support the use of Terminal Services or Citrix to increase the

perfomance over a WAN?

 

[Scott]

Thanks to those that have responded. Although our load times are a fraction of your response time, it's nice to know that we do have a possible solution to increase performance.

Thanks again,
Scott