Moving Terminal Services from one server to another

[tahoe2]

Hi.
Before our upgrade to SBS 2003, we ran an NT network.
Our users connected through our CITRIX server using thin clients.
Terminal Services was installed on the CITRIX server.

When our network was upgraded to SBS 2003, the technician moved TS off the CITRIX server and installed it on another member server (that I want to get rid of).

Is it as simple as shutting off the current TS server and re-enabling TS on the CITRIX server?
Or does SBS 2003 require that TS be on the DC? And if so, would installing the TS components on the DC and shutting down the current TS server work? Are there more steps than that?

Thanks for reading!

Corie

 

[victorv]

hi,
I see a few confusion.
Citrix (Metaframe xx is the name of the product)
needs to be installed over a Windows Server (2K or 2K3)
after in this has been installed Terminal Server in Application Mode (the other way is in Remote Administration
and is used just for server administration, as VNC or pcAnywhere).

This is an operation that you have to do early after install
the machine, no after you have installed applications
(also Acrobat reader), becouse an application-installation is very different (not for the user, but at system level)
if it is done over a TS or less.

TS are not a service as DHCP that you can install or revoke when you want: a TS has to be promoted early and if you
don't need them more, the best is to reinstall server.
Metaframe follows the same way.

It is not a good thing, install TS in Application mode and
Citrix-Metaframe on a Domain Controller. A TS is a server
in which every user, perform a login, seen that he has to work on it, also if he does not log on at the consolle.

Different is "Terminal Server License Services" that typically is installed over a Domain Controller.

A Terminal Server environment and more Citrix is indicated
on a discrete number of server, in which each server carries out its function:

Domain Controller (best if more than one)
Terminal Servers + Citrix (also this more than one)
Printer server File Server.

I hope to don't have increased confusion, but so is the abstract.

bye
vittorio

 

[pagy]

Be aware that you can't use TS on SBS 2003 in application mode, you can only use it for remote administration.

The most common way of using TS for application use in an SBS envvironment is what you are already doing, TS on a member server.


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- Mark Twain

 

[tahoe2]

Oh. So are you saying it has to be on a member server *other than* the CITRIX server (which is a member server running W2K server...)?
Thanks!

Corie

 

[victorv]

hi,

I don't know if SBS allowa TS in appl mode,
but what you have to believe is that:

Citrix MUST be installed over a Windows Server *with*
Terminal Server Services activated in Application mode.

bye

 

[tahoe2]

When Citrix was originally installed (On a W2K Server), TS was installed in Application Mode.
It ran that way for years, just fine.
I want to return TS to that server, I don't need to reinstall citrix, do I?

Thanks!
Corie