>>Jos
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>>Are you using TSPlus (http://www.terminalserviceplus.com/) successfully?
>>Do you like it?
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>>Anyone else using it?
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>>Cyril
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>Hello Cyril,
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>We have been testing it for several weeks and from various client-side machines. Basically this works very well - it is simple to setup and easy for the end-user to access. I have written about it in this post ID 1598782. A user can either run via HTML5 (which means nothing to install client-side) or they can install standard Java from Oracle and run in Java mode or what they call Windows mode. We have tested this on Windows 7 & 8, and on an Android device, and an iPad - all fine.
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>The current version of TSPlus is apparently their latest release and only came out relatively recently. I have found 2 funnies with it, 2 bugs I guess. They are:
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>1) Difficult to explain in this post but if your app is maximized and it opens a non-modal window and then you close the non-modal window and return to the main app then sometimes it un-maximizes your app. I am not 100% sure this is TSPlus but I don't have this problem if I run the same app under 2X so I guess it must be the combination of my app in conjunction with TSPlus.
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>2) TSPlus has a very powerful feature which is that if you open an XLS file in your app (or another external file located on your server) you can actually tell TSPlus to transfer that XLS file to the users machine first and then use the user's own Excel to open the file locally on the user machine. This is an absolutely awesome feature which I have not found in other similar products. However, I have found that if Excel is already open on the user's machine then it seems to open the XLS file OK but when you close it, Excel opens it again. A weird thing.
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>I will be sending TSPlus an email about these 2 issues and I think they will probably want to fix them since this is after all in their business interest. I suspect these are teething problems with their new release rather than anything major or show-stopping.
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>You can download and test TSPlus for free and see for yourself but within 1 hour I had understood the basics of publishing an app and had it working pretty much straight away.
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>I have not tested under load but I think it will probably be much of a muchness vs. any other similar product.
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>The only thing that has caught me a few times is that I chose to use the TSPlus built-in web server rather than IIS. If you reboot the server and IIS loads then TSPlus does not work (conflict between IIS and TSPlus web server). Then you need to switch off IIS again and stop/start the TSPlus web server. Then it works fine again. I need to test with IIS and see if that also works but I suspect it will be fine.
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>In conclusion I think this is a good product, a decent price (unlimited users per server license). 2X have disappointed me as their new version has moved to per concurrent user licensing and payable per annum forever i.e. you pay per concurrent user per server every year, forever. We will not be going down that road ourselves. We will work out the 2 funnies mentioned above with TSPlus and then move over to that platform in due course.

Hi Jos

Thanks very much for the details.
Looks positive; I'm going to give it a go.

Cyril