The Dymon Health Care retirement residences were operating with heavily aged systems that incurred excessive amounts of downtimes, ran various operating systems and various versions of software.  A frequent churn of nursing staff required unique profiles to be created on each system repeatedly.  We identified a number of different solutions, with the selection being given to a Terminal Server (RDS) / Thin Client solution where roaming profiles were available to each staff member, and data was centralized into the corporate servers away from the local desktops.

Our objective was to leverage technology to reduce the overhead of managing systems, and staff related issues, whilst consolidating services, centralizing data and incorporating into corporate backups.

Our primary challenge was managing a tight budget, with a focus on being as close to zero spend as possible.  The Dymon Storage companies already leveraged a Terminal Server licensed application that we upgraded to Microsoft Server 2012R2 with Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and created segregated appliance for the Dymon Health Care workers.  Existing hardware was repurposed where possible using “AnywhereTS” Open Source Thin Client operating system, or sourcing Dell Wyse Terminals when required.  Simple changes to DHCP scopes enabled zero effort deployment for new/replacement systems.