RDP deployment of SIMS. Local or remote Office and Browser for report outputs ?

[cathycolless]

For situations where we can't install SIMS locally we are setting up an RDP version of the SIMS client.

 

I have an installation of SIMS that we have made available as an RDP application. It is kinda working.

But I notice that when I run reports that Output to Excel/Word or the browser that SIMS launches those applications also as RDP applications running on the server (not locally).

 

Is it possible for me to configure the RDP installation so that it will launch Office/Browser export with local applications ?

So for example a Student List export report run from the RDP client would output to the browser on the local machine ?

 

Can I configure this somewhere in the config files on the SIMS installation on the RDP server?

 

I am also curious to know how Hosted SIMS works in this regard.

Does anyone know if the reports run from Hosted SIMS go to Office/Browser running local or are hosted applications also used for the report outputs ?

 

 

Hope that question makes sense.

[ChrisMiles]

This is not possible and it's unlikely to ever be as the whole point of RDS is to run applications on a remote server.

 

We run all our SIMS through RDP here for 4 schools and no one even notices that Office apps are sometimes remote. The magic of folder redirection and mapped drives mean they still have access to the same folders and files, printers are forwarded onto the server over RDP too.