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Admin Guide > Using Microsoft Windows Terminal Server
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Using Microsoft Windows Terminal Server
Running the FaxPress Plus client software on a Microsoft Windows Terminal Server pro-
vides the same easy-to-use, integrated messaging features associated with running the
FaxPress Plus client on PCs running the other Windows operating systems.
The Microsoft Windows Terminal Server Edition is an extension of the Windows NT Server
4.0 and 2000/2003 product lines. In a Microsoft Windows Terminal Server/Citrix
MetaFrame environment, all applications are loaded on and processed on the dedicated
terminal server.
Terminal Server users experience the Windows NT workstation desktop operating system
and Windows-based applications centrally installed and running on the server from low
cost thin-client terminals. This centralized administration results in rapid deployment of
applications.
The FaxPress Plus client application, for example, must be installed only once on the Ter-
minal Server, and then have access rights assigned, for the FaxPress Plus client application
to then become available to all end-users on the network.
Windows Terminal Server provides users access to 16- or 32-bit Windows-based applica-
tions from the following types of desktops:
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Windows-based terminals, marketed by third-party hardware vendors.
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existing 32-bit Windows desktop operating systems (e.g., Vista, XP, Windows 95/
98, Windows NT workstation, older 16-bit Windows-based desktops running the
Windows 3.11 operating system, X-based Terminals, Apple Macintosh, MS-DOS,
Network Computers, and UNIX-based desktops [via a third-party add-on product]).
About Citrix MetaFrame
The Citrix MetaFrame add-on package is installed after your NT or 2000/2003 server has
the terminal server option enabled. The Citrix MetaFrame application provides Microsoft’s
Windows Terminal Server with additional server and client functionality by allowing any
client, no matter what operating system, to connect to a Windows Terminal Server and run
a Windows application through their browser. MetaFrame also provides a secure encryp-
tion option, load balancing, and enables publishing and application management from a
single server in a server farm. Additionally, Citrix MetaFrame provides Citrix MetaFrame
Administrator tools for the Terminal Server, which the Terminal Server alone does not
have.
Citrix Published Applications
Citrix Published Applications can be an HTML application (Citrix NFuse) or a Windows 32-
bit application that allows Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator users web-
based access to applications such as Microsoft Word/ Excel, FaxPress Plus client, VBScript
and JavaScript Programming.