There are excellent ways to use Mac computers with the RDS Advantage church management software system.
Mac computers include Boot Camp™ This allows Microsoft Windows OS to be installed on a Mac so that they can access RDS and other Windows applications just as though Windows computers. This allows Windows applications to run at native Mac speeds.
Boot Camp Assistant creates a partition just for Windows without erasing your existing OS X volume.Important: Do not use Disk Utility to partition your hard drive for Windows installation. Always use Boot Camp Assistant.
After installation, you can switch between Windows and OS X by holding the Option (Alt) key at start up. Or, use the Startup Disk control panel in Windows (installed with Boot Camp support software) or the OS X Startup Disk preference pane to set the default operating system to use each time the computer starts up.
Mac computers are widely used with RDS using Terminal Services.
Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2, formerly known as Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008 and previous versions, is one of the components of Microsoft Windows (both server and client versions) that allows a user to access applications and data on a remote computer over a network, using the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).
Terminal Services is Microsoft™s implementation of thin-client terminal server computing, where Windows applications, or even the entire desktop of the computer running Terminal Services, are made accessible to a remote client machine. The client can either be a full-fledged computer, running any operating system as long as the terminal services protocol is supported, or a barebone machine powerful enough to support the protocol (such as Windows FLP).
With terminal services, only the user interface of an application is presented on the client system. All input from the client system is redirected over the network to the server, where all application execution takes place.
Microsoft changed the name from Terminal Services to Remote Desktop Services with the release of Windows Server 2008 R2 in October 2009. RemoteFX was added to Remote Desktop Services as part of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.
Note that only the user interface of an application appears on the client computer (the Mac).
To make this simple to use, when installing Terminal Services, place an icon on the Mac. To log into the RDS system, click on the icon, then enter your password.
You may want a tech person to install Terminal Services.
This provides secure communication from any location that has Internet access.