TABLE OF CONTENTS Maintaining the applications that are running on each desktop can be a huge burden for administrators. As such, many organizations choose to run applications on terminal servers rather than installing them locally on each workstation. The advantage to doing so is that the application runs on the server, and only video images are sent to the workstations. This makes it much easier for an administrator to maintain the applications. The terminal services are good for security as well, because applications are much more resistant to user tampering since they do not actually reside on the user s workstations.
In this chapter, you will learn how to install the Terminal Server Role Service. One of the requirements associated with using the Terminal Services is that terminal servers must be licensed, and client access licenses are also required. Windows Server 2008 can be configured to act as a Terminal Service Licensing Server, and this chapter will show you how to do it. Finally, you will learn how to establish a client connection to a terminal server.
The original components of terminal services were created by a company called Citrix Systems, Inc. Headed by a former IBM executive, Citrix became the only company ever to license the Windows NT source code from Microsoft for resale as a separate product. Their popular Windows NT 3.51-derived product was known as WinFrame. Prior to the release of a Windows NT 4.0 related version, Citrix and Microsoft struck...
