Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Remote Desktop Connection vs Domain/Local Desktop?

Hey guys, I hope Im in the right place for this question

So, I just moved over from a very large investment bank to a private investment firm. The tech situation here seems kinda outta wack and really inefficient. Let me explain the differences between the two (from my limited knowledge of networking):

At the bank:

We would be able to sign on directly into our machine and all of our desktops/apps were used from that local sign in. I know it wasn't Windows per say but something else. Also our local IT guy was able to add and remove programs and permissions remotely and (if necessary) take direct control of the computer and move the mouse etc. We would also be able to sign into any computer on the network in our office.

At investment firm:

We are a MUCH smaller company here no more than 10 full time staff. Win 10 is installed on all the machines. However, we sign onto our local machines and then do much of the work on a remote desktop connection which we sign on in a locally hosted server. However, there are always tech hiccups with this and constant out of sync issues (devices disappearing, settings reset, etc.) Also our desktops are all following the same folder path: C:\Users\Public\Public Desktop

TLDR My question comes down to this: What would the program we used at the bank and can a more streamlined (but economical) version such as that be used here at the firm?



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