Remote Desktop for Users

There are many benefits of making Remote Desktop available to users. For example, company hardware costs can be reduced, application availability and licensing management can be simplified, and network performance can increase.

Because a Remote Desktop session is really a remote session running on the Remote Desktop Server Session Host system, all Remote Desktop users run applications on a Windows server, utilizing the processing power of the server while reducing the load on the local workstation. This can extend the life of an underpowered machine whose deficient resources might impede workflow through high processor, memory, or disk utilization.

From a desktop support perspective, a Remote Desktop Session Host can ...

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