Work in the program on the server?

Question

System administration

For a long time in one organization, the system administrator showed me that his users are working in programs (office 2003, in my opinion) without installing them on computers. Those. he put programs on the server, and users simply took out shortcuts to these programs and they could run, for example, the same Word not from their computer, but from the server, i.e. they did not need to install programs, but it was enough to put everything they needed on the server. Tell me how this can be organized or what is the name of this technology / program? I can’t find it on the Internet. I don't know how to describe

Answer 1

You are talking about RemoteApp technology, it is one of the varieties of RDP.
When connecting via RDP, you get to the desktop of a remote server and work there.
In the case of RemoteApp, the application runs on the server and you are shown a graphic of it in a normal window.
The organization needs Windows Server at least 2008, which allows you to raise the terminal server.
Starting from server 2012, all RemoteApp management functionality has been moved to the domain, so it will only work in the domain.

Answer 2

terminal, thin client
specifically in the case of the office, read about "ms office terminal server edition"

Answer 3

Most likely it was a terminal server: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D1%80%D...