My employer provides us with the ability to work from home using the Citrix MetaFrame remote desktop software. For the most part, I have no complaints; however, I was wondering if anyone knew if it is possible to do seamless remote desktop connections?
By that, I mean is it possible to utilize this client (or another compatible client) to connect remotely to my machine at work and have the remote applications run side-by-side with my local applications as opposed to working within the confinement of a remote desktop window?
Best Answer
The real answer here is probably to just give you the right search terms so you can do some product comparison. I think what you're talking about is "application virtualization," "application streaming," or "application sequencing" depending on the product. Some options include XenApp, App-V, SVS, and ThinApp.
The only one I know anything about is App-V, but I think that's probably too much overhead for what you want to do. Are there many other people that need to do the same thing, or is this just for you?
Edit: Just found this in another similar ServerFault question.