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Campbeld
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 What is the best way of providing remote users with a desktop?
Citrix, Desktop, Remote access, VMware, Windows Operating System
What is the cheapest way to give remote users a desktop without having a monitor-less PC under a desk somewhere for each user?

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ASKED: December 3, 2010  12:19 AM
UPDATED: December 3, 2010  9:44 PM
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Look at the virtual desktop tools that VMware offers. They can provide you with all sorts of options. VMware ACE is probably the platform that you should be looking at. Give VMware a call their sales team can figure out the product which you should be using.
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For a fairly typical small business environment i.e. MS Windows-based OS. The question is deliberately open-ended. Suggestions anyone? I’ve had a look at VMWare, Citrix etc. It looks like Citrix might be better than individual VMs for each user in VMWare.

Also any suggestions as to what licensing is required to make it legal?

Campbeld
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For great source here : License etc http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/ms-office-license-on-citrix/
For Citrix License on a Citrix License Server, this is here:
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX114695

Thanks–

Subhendu Sen
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You can also use the Microsoft Virtual Desktop infrastructure, VMWare, Citrix, or any of several others. Each offers a managed infrastructure at various cost points.

The questions are:
1. Do you need to manage the Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure?
2. Will the desktops run local to the remote user or on a backend server infrastructure?
3. Where will the data reside (which may drive where the Virtual Desktop runs)?
4. Will you be virtualizing applications?

Pjb0222
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