7.1. Terminal Services Servers
Terminal Services is a server role in Windows Server 2008. It provides users with access to either Windows-based programs or a full Windows desktop located on a server.
The full features of TS are experienced only on computers running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, but Terminal Services does support Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 products.
Figure 7.1 shows the big picture of how Terminal Services runs. The terminal server would be heavy on resources such as memory, processing power, disk space, and network capacity. Multiple clients can connect to the server, and their session will run completely within the server.
Figure 7.1. Running Terminal Services on a server
In the figure, you can see that each ...
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