You are an Enterprise administrator for contoso.com. The corporate network of the company consists of a single Active Directory domain. All the servers in the domain run Windows Server 2008 and all client computers run Windows Vista.
The network contains 100 servers and 5,000 client computers. Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 is installed on all the client computers.
Recently the marketing department has received a custom application needs to be run by all the employees of the department. The application requires access to Outlook 2003.
Which of the following options would you choose to suggest an application deployment strategy for the network that would ensure that access to both Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 is provided without creating a conflict between Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 and the other applications installed on the computers?
You also need to ensure that 50 concurrent sessions are supports and the additional training requirements are minimized.
A.
Use a Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) application compatibility shim for all the computers in the marketing department.
B.
Install Outlook 2003 on a server and enable Remote Desktop on it.
C.
Configure the Terminal Services server role on a server, install Outlook 2003 on the terminal server, and publish Outlook 2003 as a TS RemoteApp.
D.
Use a Group Policy object (GPO) to assign Outlook 2003 to all computers in the marketing department
E.
None of the above
Explanation:
To suggest an application deployment strategy for the network to meet the given requirements, you need to configure the Terminal Services server role on a server. Install Outlook 2003 on the terminal server and Publish Outlook 2003 as a Terminal Services RemoteApp (TS RemoteApp).
With Terminal Services, organizations can provide access to Windows-based programs from almost any location to almost any computing device. Terminal Services in WindowsServer2008 includes Terminal Services RemoteApp (TSRemoteApp).
RemoteApp programs are programs that are accessed remotely through Terminal Services and appear as if they are running on the end user’s local computer. Instead of being presented to the user in the desktop of the remote terminal server, the RemoteApp program is integrated with the client’s desktop, running in its own resizable window with its own entry in the taskbar.
Users can run RemoteApp programs side-by-side with their local programs. If a user is running more than one RemoteApp program on the same terminal server, the RemoteApp programs will share the same Terminal Services session.
With TSRemoteApp you do not have to deploy and maintain different versions of the same program for individual computers. If employees need to use multiple versions of a program, you can install those versions on one or more terminal servers, and users can access them through TSRemoteApp.
Reference: TS RemoteApp Step-by-Step Guide
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730673.aspx