[AccessD] Access & Terminal Services

Hi Andy

I've been building a complex Access app on TS (Win 2k) for Roz for some
months now.  It's a reporting tool that connects to either Informix (boo) or
SQL Server (yay).

Here are some of the problems I've come across:

-- FE and BE in my case needed to be split as user info (saved queries etc.)
is stored in Access and we have ~12 'production' terminal servers.  These
are load-balanced and users are kicked onto any one of them at random.  If
no split, then the user needs to be on the same server they were on when
they saved their data.

-- Anything that dynamically alters queries etc.  needs to make a copy of
these first to avoid locking issues.

These are the biggies, otherwise everything seems to work/connect just as in
a normal client/server situation.  If you have specific questions I'd be
more than happy to answer them as best I can.

HTH
Tom




-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Lacey [mailto:andy at minstersystems.co.uk] 
Sent: 23 March 2005 13:59
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access & Terminal Services

Thanks Gustav, but the boss here is likely to want to go the TS route. We
have Remote Control working nicely for him from home, but for lesser
mortals, of whom there could be several, he doesn't want to have
workstations dotted around which have to left on and not used by other
workers, and other considerations. So I think TS would be right, but the
question is whether everything that my app does (as outlined below) will
work unaltered under TS.

BTW what's the license cost implication of TS? Must be considerable if you
went for an alternative. I thought it was part of W2000 server.

--
Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk

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