You are an Enterprise administrator for contoso.com. The corporate network of the company consists of a single Active Directory domain. All the servers run Windows Server 2008 and all client computers run Windows Vista. All the servers have Terminal Services role enabled.
Which of the following options would you choose to deploy of a new line-of-business application to all client computers while ensuring that the users must access the application from an icon on their desktops? And they should be able to access to the application even when they are not connected to the network.
A.
Publish the application as TS RemoteApp.
B.
Use GPO to assign the application to all client computers
C.
Use GPO to assign the application to the terminal server
D.
Use TS Web Access to publish the application.
E.
None of the above
Explanation:
To ensure that the users must access the application from an icon on their desktops even when they are not connected to the network, you need to assign the application to all client computers by using a Group Policy object (GPO).
As you may already know, in an Active Directory environment, group policies are the main component of network security. There are two different ways that you can deploy an application through the Active Directory. You can either publish the application or you can assign the application. Publishing an application doesn’t actually install the application, but rather makes it available to users.
Assigning an application to a user works differently than publishing an application. Again, assigning an application is a group policy action, so the assignment won’t take effect until the next time that the user logs in. When the user does log in, they will see that the new application has been added to the Start menu and / or to the desktop.
Although a menu option or an icon for the application exists, the software hasn’t actually been installed though. To avoid overwhelming the server containing the installation package, the software is not actually installed until the user attempts to use it for the first time.
Reference: Using Group Policy to Deploy Applications
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Group-Policy-Deploy-Applications.html
Reference: Planning and Deploying Group Policy 2008 http://www.scribd.com/doc/4716059/Planning-and-Deploying-Group-Policy-2008