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Using Secure Global Desktop and Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop

Some editions of Microsoft Windows include a Remote Desktop feature that allows you to access a computer using the Remote Desktop Protocol. You can use Secure Global Desktop and Remote Desktop, for example, to give users to access their office PC when they are out of the office.

Before introducing Secure Global Desktop, ensure that the Remote Desktop connection to the Microsoft Windows computer is working. For details see:

• Get started using Remote Desktop with Windows XP Professional
• Connect to another computer using Remote Desktop Connection

To configure Secure Global Desktop for use with Remote Desktop:

• Create a host object for each Windows computer.
• Create Windows application objects.
  • Only full Windows desktop sessions are supported. You cannot run a specific application on the Windows computer.
  • Seamless windows are not supported.
  • To ensure users access their own computer, you may have to create separate Windows desktop application objects for each Windows computer.
• To use client drive mapping, install the Sun Secure Global Desktop Enhancement Module for Windows on the Windows computer.

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