Concepts
Windows Terminal Services is a new concept for many system administrators who expect systems to be essentially single user. It brings true multiuser capability to Windows. UNIX systems have traditionally been primarily multiuser, with a single large server that serves many terminals.
Each user who connects to a Windows Server 2003 server using Remote Desktop is actually using the resources of the server itself, not the particular workstation at which he or she is seated. The user’s experience doesn’t depend on the speed of the workstation, but rather is actually sharing the processor, RAM, and hard disks of the server itself.
Each user gets his or her own WTS session, and each session is completely isolated from other sessions on the ...
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