Accessing YourOfficeAnyWhere applications from Apple Mac Computers

Remote Applications on the YourOfficeAnyWhere system are accessed from Windows computers using the HTTPS protocol and the remote desktop client. This is the most secure way to access your applications because your username and password are pre-authenticated by our Remote Desktop Gateway before connecting to your system.  However the current release of the RDP client for MAC (2.0.1 – 07/06/2010) does not support this functionality it also does not support the remote app feature of Windows 2008. The remote app feature allows you to launch applications hosted in our datacentre directly on your desktop. More information on Remote App can be found on Microsoft’s web site http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753844(WS.10).aspx

In order to allow you to access the hosted desktop to run your applications we need to publish your server directly to the internet. Alternatively you can install some virtualisation software on the Mac and run a copy of Windows Vista or Windows 7*. The two most popular virtualisation platforms for Mac clients are Parallels Desktop for Mac and VMware Fusion . If you do not wish to run any virtualisation software then please do the following:

1.        Install the latest version of the RDP client for MAC which  can be downloaded from the Microsoft website http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974283/en-us

2.        Contact the helpdesk and they will publish your server directly to the internet and send you the connection details.

*You will need to purchase a legal copy of Windows and install this within the virtualisation software.

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