Thin-Client Computing

Windows 2000 Terminal Services is an excellent feature for your RAS. All the Windows 2000 Server products (server, advance server, and data center) include Windows Terminal Services. Windows 2000 Terminal Services was co-developed by Microsoft and Citrix. Similar to the product WinFrame (from Citrix), Windows 2000 Terminal Services enables a Windows 2000 Server to operate as a multi-user application server, enabling remote users to run applications from the server using a single "thin" client application (or through a Web browser). It uses a presentation layer protocol called Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) or a protocol from Citrix called Independent Computing Architecture (ICA). Because client workstations run the ...

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