If the introductory screen appears, click on Next to list the available roles. Within Server Manager, click on Roles in the left hand pane and click on Add Roles in the resulting screen to invoke the Add Roles Wizard. Terminal Services may be installed from the Server Manager. In this chapter, however, the configuration of the basic Terminal Services role and installing applications for use by Terminal Services users will be covered. There are a number of different Terminal Services configuration options, many of which will be covered in subsequent chapters. With terminal services, for example, if an application needs to be upgraded it only needs to be upgraded on the terminal server, not on every desktop in the enterprise. This has a number of advantages in terms of ensuring that all users have the same version of a particular application and also in terms of reducing administrative overheads. This allows one or more Windows Server 2008 systems to provide the applications for any number of desktop systems. In effect, while the applications and desktops appear to be running on the local machine they are actually running in virtual sessions on the remote server with only the display graphics and keyboard and mouse information passing between the two systems.

Terminal Services allows either individual applications or entire desktop sessions to be run on remote server systems, but displayed and interacted with on local client systems. Purchase and download the full PDF and ePub versions of this eBook only $9.99

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