Mac OS in win and linux environment

Question

macOS

Good afternoon.

I'm planning to buy a MacBook Pro.
A necessary condition is to work with a little yellow program on a terminal server under win2003.

Since there is no experience of administering poppies yet, there are questions:

1. RDP client. Googling found several options, but
there is nothing to check the performance. Does it work ok? Let's say in linux'e only recently,
with the advent of freerdp, everything became not "you can work", but "excellent". Switching layouts,
connecting local drives, etc.

2. VPN client. Is there a client for openvpn or pptp? Or just a vpn implementation available in linux as a server, and in a poppy as a client. I would like it to work as in ubunt - I poked the mouse in the network manager and it connected.

3. MS office. Once under the poppy there is an office from MS, then there are no such problems as OpenOffice (sliding formatting)?

Answer 1

1) Everything works. I recommend CORD.
2) with openvpn, I don’t know if there are ready-made binaries (for sure there are), but you can compile 100%. PPtP is native.
3) As a rule, there are no problems. I didn't come across.

Answer 2

I am writing just from the MacBook Pro - all the tasks you mentioned are solved without problems.

Answer 3

CorD is an excellent program, I have been using it myself for quite a long time, but there is a nuance - if profile redirection is implemented and this GPO applies to terminal users, then when you turn on the forwarding of local disks and / or printers, the program sometimes crashes. Therefore, I refused to redirect profiles in the terminal for myself, since local disks are more important to me.
Both VPN and PPTP start up natively. No third party software is needed. How to set up is written here

Answer 4

The Microsoft RDP included with MS Office works great on a Mac, I use it all the time. The openvpn client is called tunnelblick, pptp and l2tp are supported natively.
As for formatting, there were never any problems, sometimes there were problems with tricky fonts, but after installing the fonts everything was ok