12.5. Terminal Services Web Access

Terminal Services Web Access, or TS Web Access, allows users to launch a RemoteApp from within their browser. TS Web Access is a role service within the Terminal Services role. When users open a web page on the TS Web Access server, they are presented with a page containing the program icons of the programs that they can launch. A user can launch one or more of these programs and the programs run on the server but are displayed on the user's monitor.

TS Web Access has some major advantages over programs running on a client system. Since the program launches from a single web page, deploying an application requires one installation and one deployment. The TS Web Access web page is a customizable ActiveX Web ...

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