Is there a push in your Org to go green? I have the answer... at least I have one that has been working for about a year now for me. I set up several workstations with Ubuntu Linux installed, I call them "Thin", because they are just basic installs, nothing added, they are not technically what are marketed as Thin Clients...However, I hid the tool bars, and have only two icons on the desktop. The first Icon logs in to a Windows Terminal Server using rdesktop. The second Icon shuts down the computer (BIOS is set to Auto Start the Computer Daily just before Business Hours). The beauty here is not just the savings in licensing of Windows and Office Suites on each of the desktops, there is also the huge savings on Power and Cooling of those PC's. Windows Terminal Server 2008 is amazing, and can handle many users simultaneously without issue. As an Admin, having to only manage one windows box, and knowing that I can do that through an RDP session is fabulous... I truly recommend giving this a try. Just so you have it... Create two Launchers on your linux desktop; The command is: rdesktop -f -z server.yourdomainname.org For Shutdown, the command is: shutdown -P now The satisfaction for this overall effort goes both ways... For a truly "Green" effort... the greeners get the fuzzy feeling of saving energy, and you, as the admin get effort savings of only having to manage one windows machine... works both ways! Note: On some variations of Ubuntu/Mint Linux, there have been keymap issues with the Caps Lock and arrow keys. This can be corrected by editing a file: Edit /usr/share/rdesktop/keymaps/common At the very bottom of the file, make sure that it reads: Caps_Lock 0x3a capslock Multi_Key 0x0 inhibit |