Set Up and Use TS Web Access

TS Web Access is a web-based terminal server connection that allows a client to use a browser to run TS RemoteApp programs over the Internet or an intranet. This requires that Internet Information Services (IIS) be already installed on the terminal server as described in "Install the Terminal Services Roles" earlier in this tutorial. TS Web Access is a Terminal Services role service that must be separately installed from TS. This was suggested in "Install the Terminal Services Roles," and if you have not done that, go back to that section and do it now. With the role service installed, configure and use TS Web Access.

NOTE: You need to have RDC 6.0 installed on the client for TS Web Access to operate. RDC 6.0 is on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 and can be downloaded for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1 or SP2.

Configure TS Web Access

If the TS Web Access server with IIS 7 and the TS RemoteApp terminal server are on the same computer and you have followed all the previous steps to set up and deploy TS RemoteApp programs, then you should not need further configuration of TS Web Access. If the two servers are on different computers, then continue here. TS Web Access is a web application that runs on the IIS web server. It can be configured either from the Start menu or from its web page in a browser.

1. Click Start | Administrative Tools | Terminal Services | TS Web Access Administration.
   Or, on the terminal server, click Start | Internet to open the Internet Explorer. In the address field, type http://localhost/ts.
   In either case, if needed, enter a local administrator username and password, and click OK. TS Web Access will open in the Internet Explorer and, if there is a terminal server with TS RemoteApp programs on the web server, TS Web Access will display the TS RemoteApp programs that have been set up.
2. Click Configuration. The Editor Zone appears on the right of the browser window. Under Terminal Server Name, type the name of the server on which the TS RemoteApp programs have been set up that you want to make available through TS Web Access.
3. Click Apply and then click RemoteApp Programs. You should see the TS RemoteApp programs you want to make available.

Use TS Web Access

Given that you have done all the preceding setup and configuration, the client use of TS Web Access is very simple.

1. On the client computer, click Start | Internet to open the Internet Explorer. In the address field, type http://server name/ts where server name is a host name on the LAN, an IP address, or a fully qualified domain name (FQDN).
2. Enter a username and password, and click OK. If the message "ActiveX Control Not Enabled" appears, click the warning message in the Information bar, and click Add-On Disabled | Run ActiveX Control. Finally, click Run in the security warning.
   TS Web Access will open in the browser displaying the TS RemoteApp programs that have been set up, but without the Configuration option.
3. Click the program to be run. A Trust Warning message will appear. Click Yes to proceed. A security warning may appear. If so, click Allow.
   TIP: If when you click the program nothing happens, you need to add the TS Web Access server to the Trusted Sites zone in Internet Explorer. In Internet Explorer, click Tools on the toolbar and click Internet Options. Click the Security tab, click Trusted Sites in the list of zones, and click Sites. In the Add This Website To The Zone text box, if it is not already entered, type the web site address entered in Step 1, uncheck Require Server Verification..., click Add, click Close, and click OK to close the Internet Options dialog box.
4. Enter your username and password and click OK. You are told the remote computer you will be connecting to and the resources you will have available. Make any changes you want to the resource list and click Connect.
5. The program will open on the client and can be used as it would be normally.
6. When use of the TS RemoteApp program is completed, close the program and close the web browser.