When logged on to Terminal Services, you can
run in one of these two modes. You??™ll usually choose Execute mode when you are simply
logging in and running a bunch of applications. Install mode is a special mode used when
you are installing an application on the server. In this mode, Terminal Services monitors
changes made to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry key to capture changes made by
the application installer. This information is then stored as shadow keys that are used to
apply these settings to users who subsequently log on to the server in Execute mode.
Before installing an application, you should change the server to Install mode by
running the following:
Change user /install
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You can then install the application and configure it as needed. Once you are done,
you should switch back to Execute mode using the following command:
Change user /execute
NOTE Explicitly changing to Install mode and then back to Execute mode is not required if the
installer is an MSI package. This is because Terminal Services is smart enough to recognize that an
installation is taking place, and it automatically switches to Install mode and then back to Execute.
Hands-On Exercise: Configuring a Remote Program
In this exercise, we make the Windows Calculator available as a remote program. We
then create an RDP file and an MSI file that we can use to distribute to users who will
access the remote program.
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