| Alternatives to Citrix Presentation Server (Part 3) |
| Thursday, 26 July 2007 by Michel Roth | |||
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"Thinworx is one of the newer players on the market. The manufacturer Genuit is based in Canada. This description is based on version 2.8, but version 3.0 will be released soon (or even may be released). Thinworx's central point is the Controller. In version 2.8 this part is a Single Point of Failure, but in version 3.0 they have a solution built-in. Other components are the Application Servers (Terminal Servers), a portal component and the Ad Server component. This Ad Server is pretty exceptional. This component can show advertisements in the portal, can be useful for ASP, but will not be used much internally. At least one server should host the role Domain Agent, which handles the communication with Active Directory. The first time you start the administrator console you need to specify the controller computer and the communication port. Like most consoles you need to get used to the console. The options on the left will open on a new tab in the right pane, but you get used to it pretty quickly. For communication, the standard username “sa” is used. Remember that this account is used on every application server for connection with the controller if you want to change the password." Read more here.
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