Microsoft Application Server (deprecated)

Power Apps and Power Automate.

Regardless of the environment, Microsoft Application Server is used to manage internal applications. Installing legacy software on the computers of end-users is a cinch with this solution. It provides a central location for updating and managing legacy applications. It is less valuable if you're using only web-based and cloud-based apps.

Microsoft Application Server has been incredible this past year during COVID. Previously I would have said that we could go without it, but after this past season, I’m glad we have utilized it. Without having this software set up prior to COVID, we would have been in a tough situation. I mention COVID a lot because we were able to continue our work almost seamlessly this entire year.

MS Application Server is great at enabling your remote users to access on-premises and legacy applications remotely without the need for complex infrastructure or application installs on the remote computers. This enables you to manage on-prem and legacy applications in one central location. This is great for maintaining those application, and for security reasons.

Microsoft Application Server is great to centralize management, patching, and deployment of all your business internal applications for internal and external users. It's great for enterprise deployments but a little overkill for smaller deployments of under 100 users.

MS Application is great for legacy applications that require actual app installs on endpoint user computers. It provides a central location to update and manage your legacy application and eliminates the need to install applications locally on the end-users computer. It's less well suited if you run all your applications from the cloud and they are web-based.

MS Application Server is great for any environment that requires you to run internal applications that are not accessible via for compliance reasons. If you don't require adhering to compliance requirements then MS Application Server might be overkill since more applications have been ported over to being web-accessible.

We have our physical server as well as the application server located in one city and we work out of a remote office - we are able to have a tunnel to the server remotely and access all the apps we need. For that it is a life saver, thank you.

The server is great for housing databases that are going to be utilized by different individuals in the agency. However, if your company is fairly small and does not require the amount of storage this server has, it may be more economical to just have a desk top.