I've just been reading up on Windows Thin PC and i think it fits in perfectly with something we have coming up, basically i'm looking for input on this idea:
People want 20 computers, laptops or tablets. Their number 1 requirement:
They must be portable, easily moved away from their primary location of use along with the desks people will sit at to use them.
Our requirements:
They must be easier to manage and durable than laptops (this is 11 - 16 year olds that will be using them, laptops are far to easy to damage in our opinion)
Run windows 7 and office 2010 - our network is 100% W7 + O2010, we don't wish to change this, but thin PC to me is just cut down windows 7 so that's allowed.
So what i'm thinking of doing is proposing they get tablets, we'll wipe them and put Windows Thin PC on them (they'll likely only have 16GB SSDs), they'll all be connected to the wireless and run applications vis TS Remote app. In addition to the remote apps they're automatically connected to 3 shares on our fileserver.
I'll no doubt budget a new server (just because i can more than anything, i'll put vmware on it and use a large part of it for my own devices
) to run all the apps off.
Question: 20 Devices all connecting through one AP and loading remote apps at the same time and loading and saving documents to shares, likely to be a problem or not?
The access point is an Aruba managed AP (Can't remember the model)
Question: Does this generally sound like a good idea? Would you do it differently? and if so how?
People want 20 computers, laptops or tablets. Their number 1 requirement:
They must be portable, easily moved away from their primary location of use along with the desks people will sit at to use them.
Our requirements:
They must be easier to manage and durable than laptops (this is 11 - 16 year olds that will be using them, laptops are far to easy to damage in our opinion)
Run windows 7 and office 2010 - our network is 100% W7 + O2010, we don't wish to change this, but thin PC to me is just cut down windows 7 so that's allowed.
So what i'm thinking of doing is proposing they get tablets, we'll wipe them and put Windows Thin PC on them (they'll likely only have 16GB SSDs), they'll all be connected to the wireless and run applications vis TS Remote app. In addition to the remote apps they're automatically connected to 3 shares on our fileserver.
I'll no doubt budget a new server (just because i can more than anything, i'll put vmware on it and use a large part of it for my own devices
) to run all the apps off.Question: 20 Devices all connecting through one AP and loading remote apps at the same time and loading and saving documents to shares, likely to be a problem or not?
The access point is an Aruba managed AP (Can't remember the model)
Question: Does this generally sound like a good idea? Would you do it differently? and if so how?
