Propalms TSE

Terminal Services Edition

Propalms Terminal Services Edition is a complete management product for the server-based computing environment. Using the base technologies of Microsoft Windows, Terminal Services Edition provides a full solution that manages end users, application servers and server-hosted Windows applications.

A Propalms Terminal Services Edition server team is a combination of all the servers that have Terminal Services Edition software installed:

• One or more Windows Terminal Servers

• One or more Microsoft IIS web servers

• One or more Terminal Services Edition load balancers

• One or more Relay Servers

Application Publishing
Administrators publish Windows applications to make them available to a user. Terminal Services Edition maintains a list of applications for every user. Applications can be published directly to a user's account or to organisational units (OUs) or groups of users.

Application Launch Pad
The application launch pad is primarily where applications are launched and from where the Secure Global Desktop client is distributed. The first time a user logs on, Terminal Services Edition creates a menu on the Windows Start menu to provide an alternate way to launch applications.

Client Components
Terminal Services Edition uses small but important client-side Windows components to enhance the user's terminal services experience with features such as printing to local printers, accessing client drives and hiding the native Terminal Server desktop. Connections to the TSE server are also possible from certain native RDP and non-Windows clients.

Terminal Services Edition Architecture


Load Balancing
When an application is launched, the TSE client contacts the Terminal Services Edition load balancer, which identifies the best application server for this request — the load balancer can identify the best server (or if a server has failed) because it continuously rates application server load metrics.

Application Hosting
Terminal Services Edition then launches the application host on the application server instead of launching the application directly — this lies behind many of the special enhancements to the RDP connection that Terminal Services Edition brings.

Session Management
Once the users are connected to a server, Terminal Services Edition will track, and an administrator may monitor, the active sessions using the application host. Administrators can perform session management functions like resetting a session or shadowing a session from a central console.

Reporting
Throughout all processes Terminal Services Edition collects data and composes reports. It creates reports that administrators can view to evaluate application and system usage. Administrators can also download this information to create their own reports.