For an application to take advantage of work areas, the work area service must be enabled for both clients and servers. On a server the service is disabled by default. On the client, the service is enabled by default.
For an application to take advantage of the default partition, UserWorkArea partition, this partition must be enabled by enabling the work area service for both clients and servers. The work area service on a server is disabled by default and the work area service on a client is enabled by default. Note that rather than using this default work area partition, a user can create their own work area partition using the Work area partition service . For a description of the differences between these two services please see Understand the difference between the work area service and the work area partition service.