2X has made it even easier to publish applications, folders, documents and desktops, by adding searching, sorting and the ability to duplicate published items.
New Publishing Tools
Select ‘Publishing’ from the Navigation toolbar and click the „Add…‟ button from the Publishing tools located at the bottom of the screen. You can also right-click on any of the Published Resources and choose from Add, Find, Duplicate, Disable and Delete to easily manage your published resources.
Managing Published Resources
You can also select any published resource from the list and manage it using the Information, Publish From, Application and Filtering tabs located on the main screen of the Publishing module. Each of these functions are explained in detail in the following pages.
Applications
One of the most useful features available on 2XApplicationServer is the ability to publish seamless applications individually to your users. This means users will only see the applications you give them access to and not a full terminal services desktop (when using terminal services only).
After clicking on „Add‟ from the publishing tool bar, a new dialog box, ‘Select Item Type’, will show. Choose Application and click on Next.
2X ApplicationServer Publishing Wizard
Publishing• 106 Publish From…
If only one server is listed in the terminal server list, the wizard will skip the ‘Publish From’ dialog box (shown below) and continue to ‘Application Settings’.
In the „Publish From’ dialog box you can choose which Server Groups or Individual Servers you want your application to be published to.
You can choose to publish the application from „All Servers in Farm’ *, choose a Server Group, or choose Individual Servers.
NOTE: If you choose to publish the application to „All Servers in Farm’ or to „Server Groups’, make sure the application is available in all selected terminal servers.
Choose from which Terminal Server/s you want to publish the application
* „All Servers in Farm‟ is the terminology used to indicate the whole list of terminal servers which can be configured from the Terminal Server tab on the Terminal Servers page
Select the type of server from which you want to publish your application.
2X ApplicationServer Publishing Wizard
Publishing• 108 Select what type of application you want to publish. Choose from a single application, an
Installed application or a predefined application such as Windows Explorer.
2X ApplicationServer - Select Application Type
Application Settings
The Application panel provides fields for the Name and Description of the application. The Name and Description fields can be left blank and will be filled in automatically if you browse to the application using the target field.
You also have the ability to specify the run mode when the published application is launched.
The options are to launch the application in a normal window, in full screen mode or minimized.
Application Settings
Publishing• 110 Click „Change Icon…‟ button to use a different icon.
Select a new icon from the executable file or from other locations by clicking on „Browse...‟.
Application Settings – Change Icon
Advanced Application Settings
Application Advanced Settings/Shortcuts
Create a shortcut on the client desktop for the application by checking the „Create shortcut on Desktop’ box.
Create a shortcut in the client Start Menu Folder by checking „Create shortcut in Start Folder’
box.
You can specify which folder to create a shortcut in by using „\‟ and the name of the folder.
For example, to create the shortcut for „MSWORD‟ in a folder called „2X Published Items\Office Apps‟, you should specify „2X Published Items\Office Apps’.
You can also use the keyword ‘%Groups%’ to create a shortcut according to the published groups.
Check the ‘Create shortcut in Auto Start Folder’ to create a shortcut in the start folder.
Publishing• 112 On the File Extensions tab you can associate file extensions on the client side with the
particular published application. Select one or more extensions to be associated with this published application.
To add other non-default file extensions, click the „Add…‟ button and enter the file extensions separated by a semicolon as shown in the figure above.
You can also edit and delete file extensions by clicking on the extension and then clicking either „Edit’ or „Delete’.
Advanced Settings-Add File Extensions
Advanced Settings-Set Licensing
Checking the ‘Disable Session Sharing’ box will allow you to isolate every published application to one (1) session. Every published application will have its own session on the server. If the same application is launched twice then it will be deployed in the same isolated session.
To publish an application and enforce a single instance of that application enable
„Allow users to start only one instance of the application‟ checkbox.
If you are trying to publish an application with a limited amount of licenses, enter the amount of available licenses you want to publish. In the „If Limit is Exceeded’ field, choose from the following options:
Warn user and do not start – this option will warn the user that the number of licenses has been exceeded and will not publish the application.
Warn user and start – this option will warn the user that the number of licenses has been exceeded and will still publish the application.
Notify administrator and start – this option will notify the administrator that the number of licenses has been exceeded and will still publish the application.
Notify user, administrator and start – this option will notify both the user and the administrator that the number of licenses has been exceeded and will still publish the application.
Notify user, administrator and do not start – this option will notify both the user and the administrator that the number of licenses has been exceeded and will not
Publishing• 114 If you need to change the default behavior of the published application on the Client, you can
modify the default color depth or the default resolution used by the client.
Advanced Settings-Set Display settings
NOTE: Applications which use different color depth or different resolutions will run in a different terminal server session.
Server Settings
The „Target’ field provides the location of the executable or content file which resides on the terminal server. The target can include types such as a file, .exe files, word documents, images, batch files, and other types of content.
„Start in’ specifies the folder that contains the original item or another related files.
Sometimes, programs need to use files from other locations. You can specify where the folder is located so that published applications are able to locate them.
The „Parameters’ field specifies the parameters that you may pass to access a published application.
The Server Settings offer you the ability to configure all settings mentioned above for each
Publishing• 116
Filtering
Click on Next and the Filtering dialog box appears. If you want to publish the application to certain users/groups, clients ,IP addresses ranges, or MAC addresses you must configure the Filtering properties.
Select Filtering Type
Select the filtering type by clicking on the drop down arrow in the „Select Filtering Type’ field.
User
Check the ‘Allow the following Users:‟ checkbox and add the usernames/groups in the dialog
‘Select Users or Groups’.
LDAP
Check ‘Use LDAP mode when adding Users & Groups’ to add users and groups in LDAP format instead of WinNT format. Administrators can use LDAP format to filter users found in groups within groups.
User or Group Filtering Client
First check the „Allow the following Clients:‟ and then select or type the Client (computer) name in the dialog „Select Client’ as shown in the figure below.
For Client names you can use the * character as a wildcard. For example if all your computer names start with CLIENT- simply type CLIENT-*.
Publishing• 118 IP Address
First check the „Allow the following IPs:‟, then click the „Add...’ button. You can select to filter a single IP or a range of IPs.
IP Address Filtering
Click „Finish’ to finalize the wizard, and the application you‟ve just configured will be
generated in the „Published Applications Explorer‟ area. The options can be edited by using the tabs in the Published Applications Properties‟ area.
MAC Address
First check the „Allow the following MACs:’, then click the ‘Add…’ button and select which MAC addresses to allow.
MAC address filtering
Click ‘Finish’ to finalise the wizard, and the application being published would then be available only to the MAC address being selected.