Comment Re:Our experience with XP to Win8 (Score 1) 246
Can I deploy it to 10,000 workstations and manage it via group policy with Active Directory?
The suggestion was a replacement for maintaining two old boxes - one running VNC and another as a backup. In this situation you are not going to have very many concurrent users - most likely only one user at a time. This solution also requires a VNC client be installed on each client computer.
Serving the application on VirtualBox (or another VM with an RDP server) does not require client software to be installed on 10000 workstations. Windows already provides the required software. Provide a configuration file that the user double-clicks to connect. The configuration file configures their client to connect to the server with appropriate settings for your organization.
Login credentials for the VM can be provided indirectly with Active Directory - depending on the VM software. With VirtualBox, the RDC server can be configured to authenticate users in several different ways - they even provide an API for writing your own. One common method is to authenticate users against users on the host machine. Configure that host to authenticate through Active Directory and you have Active Directory control of the VM.
I am not suggesting an industrial strength solution - for that you will have to rewrite the application. But what I suggested is far more maintainable then installing VNC clients and maintaining / backing up outdated hardware.