ITip: Access the Remote Desktop Center with the ipad Tablet by Billy Thornton and Candace Ryder

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1 ITip: Access the Remote Desktop Center with the ipad Tablet by Billy Thornton and Candace Ryder The tablet has taken the public by storm the ipad in particular and many are buying one for primarily recreational purposes: surfing the web, , music, videos/movies, etc. However, some of us are putting off that purchase because it lacks the ability to use the Microsoft Office suite for example, we can t use it to do work while on a business trip, other than perhaps processing. BUT, we in the College of Business can make the ipad a professionally useful tool by using it to access the College s Remote Desktop Center (RDC). This ITip will show you how to do that for the ipad. The process is oriented for the Apple ipad (ipad and ipad2), but may also work with tablets of other than Apple persuasion, e.g., Android based tablets. The process is detailed below. You will need your BUSDOM login information and your ipad, of course. You should also have wireless access to the Internet (or through your phone carrier). You ll also need to know what your App store icon looks like we ll show you this in case you haven t used it yet. So, let s begin! 1. First, make sure you re on the home page of your ipad, you ve got wireless access and have located the App store icon. See the indicated areas of Figure 1. Figure 1: Home Page Though it s difficult to see in Figure 1, the wireless connection icon is circled in red in the upper left of the picture by the word ipad the sound wave icon. The App Store icon is similarly marked. Page 1

2 2. Now, launch the App Store application, and locate the Wyse PocketCloud (Remote Desktop) app note there is not a space between Pocket and Cloud. You may want to search the App Store for it use the search box in the upper right. Once you ve located it, you ll see two versions a free one and one that costs $$. We will use the free one, which really is all you need. Download the free version to your ipad. 3. Launch Pocket Cloud and you ll see Figure 2. Figure2: Page 2

3 4. Next, tap/click on Advanced users, and after a brief opportunity to give anonymous statistics (I suggest No), you get Figure 3. Figure 3: 5. Now click on My Computer, shown circled in red, and you get Figure 4. Figure 4: Page 3

4 Clicking on the + sign leads to Figure 5. Figure 5: 6. Now, choose Manual Connection, to get Figure 6. Figure 6: 7. Now tap/click RDP to get Figure 7. Of course, your version of Figure 7 will NOT have all the information that this one does! You will need to fill in the various entries until it resembles Figure 7 but with your BUSDOM information. When finished, click on the Done (or Save) button in the upper right of the screen. Page 4

5 Figure 7: Page 5

6 After a bit of work on the ipad s part, you should get Figure 8. Figure 8 Click on Connect, and the next screen should, which should be something like Figure 9, your desktop in the Remote Desktop Center of the College of Business but with something added. Figure 9: Page 6

7 Microsoft Lync is another title for Office Communicator. You can keep it on your desktop if you want to see the status of some of your colleagues. Or by tapping on the X in the upper right, you can make it disappear; it is still running in the background, however. After you make Lync disappear, you got the following view of Figure 9, which should be your usual RDC desktop. Figure 9 with Lync removed Page 7

8 Although you should be familiar with how the desktop works, the ipad desktop may have some features that you are not familiar with. For example, tapping on the upward pointing triangle in the lower right of the screen takes you to Figure 10. Figure 10: Notice the icons on the bottom part of the screen. These are briefly described in the following. The circular shaped icon at the far left brings up a menu of alternatives that you may find useful. Tapping the screen outside the menu makes it disappear. The arrow icon creates a mouse of sorts that you can move around with your finger, and tap the center of it when you want to click on something. It just provides an alternative to a finger tap it can be more accurate. Tapping the icon again makes the mouse disappear. The keyboard icon brings up the keyboard for data entry. Page 8

9 The mouse icon with the right top appearing solid is the right click feature. Use it when you want to right click on an item. The square within a square icon is a magnification icon. It expands the desktop, but does not then show all of it. You can use your finger to drag the screen to a different section. Tapping the icon again reverts to full screen view. The next icon, which looks a little like a toolbox, is for PocketCloud Companion, an add in that you do not need and that will not be discussed here. You are free to play with it on your own it is free. Finally, the downward pointing triangle at the far right toggles you back to Figure 8. To exit the RDC, tap the bottom right triangle until you get the screen with the Start button, tap it, and then tap Log off. Then type Exit on the next screen to completely finish. The next time you want to connect to the RDC, simple tap/launch PocketCloud, and you ll get Figure 11. Simply tap on the Connect button to initiate the session. Figure 11: Ok, that s the way that it works. We hope you find this a useful supplement to your uses of your Apple ipad tablet! Page 9