Chapter 10. Managing the Server with Remote Desktop
"The best-laid plans o' mice and men oft go a'gley," Robert Burns wrote some time ago. Someone else more recently came up with "stuff happens." Either way, the message is clear: Sometimes things don't always go as planned. Microsoft designed Windows Home Server to be easy to manage from the Console, and for the most part that is true. However, there are times when you may need to actually log on to the server's desktop to investigate problems or to install an application.
Because Windows Home Server is based on Windows Server 2003, it was designed from the beginning with remote access in mind. In this chapter we show you how to use Remote Desktop to access the server and perform a variety of tasks that you simply cannot do from the Console.
Remote Desktop (also known as Terminal Services) is a technology that has existed since Windows NT 4.0 days, but hasn't been commonly used in the home versions of Windows. It has been widely used on the server operating systems because it allows technicians to access the server's desktop remotely, a handy feature to have when the server could be in a data center on the other side of the world.
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You may be interested to know that whenever you access the Console from a connected client computer, the client application is actually accessing the ...
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