You are an Enterprise administrator for contoso.com. The corporate network of the company consists of a single Active Directory domain. All the servers and the domain controllers in the domain run Windows Server 2008 and all client computers run Windows XP Service Pack 2.
The network contains 10 servers and 500 client computers. One of the servers has Terminal Services installed. You have been assigned the task to deploy a new line-of-business application and enable the desktop themes, which is a requirement of the application.
Your deployment strategy must only allow authorized users to access the application from any client computer by performing minimum changes to the client computers and in minimum software cost.
Which of the following options would you choose to accomplish the desired task?
A.
Upgrade all client computers to Windows Vista.
B.
Deploy the Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) 6.0 software to the client computers.
C.
Use Group Policy object (GPO) to deploy the application to all client computers
D.
Use Group Policy object (GPO) to deploy the application to the authorized users.
E.
Enable the Desktop Experience feature on the terminal server and install the application on the terminal server.
F.
Install the application on the terminal server and implement Terminal Services Session Broker (TS Session Broker).
Explanation:
To deploy a new line-of-business application with given requirements, you need to deploy the Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) 6.0 software to the client computers. Enable the Desktop Experience feature on the terminal server. Install the application on the terminal server
Due to lower maintenance costs, many companies prefer to install their LOB applications on a terminal server and make these applications available through RemoteApps or Remote Desktop. Single sign-on makes it possible to give users a better experience by eliminating the need for users to enter credentials every time they initiate a remote session.
Remote Desktop Connection (RDC)6.0 and RDC6.1 reproduce the desktop that exists on the remote computer on the user’s client computer. To make the remote computer look and feel more like the user’s local WindowsVista desktop experience, you can install the Desktop Experience feature on your Windows Server2008 terminal server. Desktop Experience installs features of WindowsVista, such as Windows Media� Player11, desktop themes, and photo management.