Guidelines to follow when making your program Active Directory/Terminal Services compatible

Question

Wondering if there's any guidelines that should be followed when writing an application that should work not only on a plain ol' non-networked computer but also on a computer/network that is setup with Active Directory (or some other directory service) and/or Terminal Services? Anything I should look out for, be aware of, etc?

Answer 1

Microsoft has renamed Terminal Services to 'Remote Desktop Services' so searching and looking around MSDN my not be as constructive using the old terminology. I'd start having a look around Remote Desktop Services Programming Guidelines found here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa383490(VS.85).aspx