Use app remotely via VPN?

Hello all.

My work is going to roll out a new application (HR, Payroll, etc.) called springbrook to our remote employees. The application runs on one of our physical servers (Win 2008 R2) and to use it locally, I had to map a network drive to the server on the local employee’s computer. I created a desktop shortcut to the app so the user doesn’t have to go inside the mapped drive and run it that way. They just click on the desktop shortcut.

Springbrook uses the LDAP protocol (in our case Active Directory) to authenticate the user trying to login against the login id