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To: Steve Lee who wrote (97173)	1/23/2000 12:41:00 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

RE: "Using Windows 2000 in conjunction with SMS 2, we take the roaming concept to the extreme and are at the point where when you logon, your applications can be installed, saving the licensing costs of having every app on every PC just in case the one user that needs it happens to move around a lot. This is fantastic functionality except who wants to sit and watch their apps get installed on a slow PC when they logon? This alone will drive faster PC's... Windows Terminal Server could challenge this scenario. WTS is a mainframe like approach to PC apps using thin clients. A CE machine or a Citrix client can have as low a spec as 2MB of RAM and still get reasonable performance. The clients environment is held completely at the server and a very efficient protocol is used to transfer keystrokes and screenshots which is all the client needs to handle " Hi Steve, Great post. What about when you're out of the corporate intranet...fire walls? security? synchronization? Maybe using mail and powerpoint as an example, would you please expand? Thanks, Amy J