I have had an RDP remote app on my iPhone for nearly a year, it was one of the first apps I downloaded. I use it for remote controlling our servers whilst I am on the road. OWA works fine, but both the iPhone and iPad Mail apps will connect directly to an Exchange ActiveSync service, if it is running on the server - that is how I access my Exchange mail account on the road, although I can always fall back to OWA if I want to. Logmein is in the App Store. Not sure which Avaya you mean, it is a huge telecoms company with loads of technologies and applications...


I wouldn't use a netbook, the screen is too small. I'll stick with my Sony Vaio laptop, Core i7 720QM, 8GB RAM, 500GB HD and 1920x1080 resolution, I wanted a similarly specced MacBook Pro, but Apple don't have an Core i7 QM machines in their range and the dual core equvalent machine cost twice as much as the Sony! For some networking tasks, OS X/UNIX is much better than Windows, but with VMWare and Windows 7 installed, it would have been an excellent solution, but the Sony with Windows 7 and Linux installed makes a cheaper, more usable solution.

Well fair enough to that.


I've connected to my Windows 7 box at work from my iPad using RDP no problem. The good clients (i.e. that have the kind of useful 'bells and whistles' you actually need) do tend to be quite expensive for some reason though and it's not a 'built in' feature.


Logmein ignition, also strangely expensive and I doubt the logmein web interface will work. OWA works quite well, or you can set an iPad up to use Outlook Anywhere sync and it drops the Exchange data right into the relevant local app (mail, iCal, contacts etc).


Do you really need widescreen? I have used the apple bluetooth keyboard with my iPad, although if you're carrying that as well you pretty much might as well carry a notebook. If you need windows apps then, patently, what you need is a windows computer. That's inarguable. The rest I think is much more.. subjective. Or at least, dependant on exactly what your individual requirements are.

Jon

TS Remote App is not just an app for remote controlling desktops, just in case anyone is confused by the over-usage of the word "app". I need a remote app app, not a remote app.

More details: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr ... 10%29.aspx

Obviously there are apps for remote access via RDP, but I've not found one that supports Remote App. KW tried to get his iPhone to work with it for me just a few days ago, and the app he has simply does not have the settings to specify the remoteapplicationprogram parameter to connect to and it refuses to open a predefined .rdp file.


Today specifically it was the IP Office Manager application, but all of their administration software is Windows only across the ACM and IPO product ranges. They do have some Java tools, but that's not really helping with the iPad. I don't know any of their other stuff. The specifics are kind of irrelevant to my point; which is that the software I needed today was Windows only.


All I really need is a vertical resolution of 768 lines or better. Some programs are so badly designed that they are unusable in any less. One specific example comes from Mitel, where one form contains hardly any data but is so tall and thin you physically can't click the OK button if you have any fewer. Needless to say, their application is Windows only so the point is rather moot.

However, the width is good. It means I can see all 3 panes in the IPO Manager application without scrolling. It also means I can play 16:9 video full screen without missing anything. It's also the only aspect ratio which fits when the screen has to be the same size as the keyboard for it to fold up properly!


I have a 14" Toshiba laptop which has the same screen resolution as the netbook but is massively bigger and heavier to lug around. It's only advantage would be if I had eyesight so bad I couldn't read the smaller writing, but I personally find it perfectly comfortable. Anything bigger just seems unnecessarily cumbersome, and I don't want it.

Yeah, having had a look, I don't think there is an iPhone/iPad application that will give access to a TS RemoteApp, er, app. I did find this rather cryptic comment on the support site of one developer. I wouldn't hold my breathe though, as I couldn't even get it to work on my Mac (I haven't tried that hard however).

There is a free Citrix Receiver app which does do a similar kind of thing - although this would obviously require a Citrix XenApp infrastructure to do the app hosting.

Thanks. I've posted the question 3 times all ready in different forums, and that's the only sensible reply so far

*Wonders if there's Android app that'll do it*

@JJ which Mitel form/software is that? I look after 3 Mitel ICPs at work.

It's the upgrade wizard for the 3300. It's about 800 pixels high, and the "next" button is right at the bottom... or it was when I last used it about 18 months ago.

I leave that to our Telecomms company to do.