When you have Terminal server or virtual machines or any other kind of RDS utilization that your employees are working with, you have several options regarding how and where to deploy / install Insightful, depending on the different use cases:
Install Insightful on Virtual machine/Server only
Install Insightful on both local device and Virtual machine/Server
Install Insightful only on local device
Use cases
If you wish to log the time along with productivity and other usage stats of employees that are connecting to a kind of a virtual machine or terminal server system as they use local devices just to connect / create a session through RDP to one Windows server and all work is done on the server. This use case requires deploying Insightful on the Virtual machine / Server only.
For use cases where tracking the time, productivity and other usage stats of employees that are working on virtual machines / servers and local device both, as they have some work to do remoting on a virtual machine / server but also work from local computers. In this case having Insightful installed on both Virtual machine / Server and local device is recommended.
When tracking the time, productivity and other usage stats while employees are working from local computers only with occasionally having a session to a Virtual machine / Server, Insightful can be installed just on local machine. Time spent on remote session will be logged as app used for creating a session only, all other usage stats for time spent on session will not be logged.
Expected results
With Insightful installed just on Virtual machine / Server, data from each remote session will be logged to a corresponding user who started that session and will include data collected while the session is active and from virtual machine / remote server work only.
With Insightful installed on virtual machine / server and local device, full data will be collected from both the session (or sessions) while employee is working on a remote desktop and local computer usage while they are doing work that is not on remote desktop servers.
If Insightful is installed on local device only, and employee is using remote desktop services to establish sessions and work on a remote desktop, time spent on a session will be logged as active while data from the local device usage will only be logged.
While it will account remote session for total Work time - time spent working for the day and also for active time spent on a device, it will not account other stats, apps and websites used on virtual machine / remote server. Instead, all usage it will be accounted only as app used to connect from local device.