Make Your Tasks More Feasible with Windows Terminal Server

Terminal services enable authentication of clients and servers to handle applications remotely. It provides with the ability to host multiple and simultaneous client sessions on windows-based terminals along with other added services such as single sign-on, better remote display, lesser administrative complexity, etc. Both, the company as well as the client can regulate remote services in a feasible way.

• Working at home by accessing your files that reside on the system installed in your workplace.

• Sitting on a UNIX system and still having the access to some capabilities provided by a Windows workstation.

• Working on a Windows XP/Vista system and gaining access to applications installed on other Windows workstation.

Given above are some of the features that are made available with the help of Windows terminal server. The motive of Microsoft behind the development of this service was to make their clients accomplish their goals in a more efficient and cost-effective way. It acts like a graphical interface that allows users that is you, to gain access to files and applications stored on a remote computer through a network.

How It works

It starts from the terminal server, which is the server component of your terminal services. The terminal server works by responding accordingly to a client process running on your UNIX or Windows host. The terminal client presents the window that controls a local monitor. The server thereby gains the ability to manage all the resources available on all the computers of the department and creates your own environment. The server receives and processes all keystrokes or mouse clicks and authorizes you to run any application made available to you on the server.

Remote desktop connection can be helpful to an organization in a lot of ways. For instance:

Reduces cost of ownership - A software that was to be installed on all the desktop used in the organization can instead be installed once on the server computer from where all the clients can use it efficiently. Terminal services provide centralized deployment, management and administration of windows-based applications to areas such as desktop, remote users and Windows-based terminals.

Can be used as common terminal services - You can use the terminal server in various ways which will ease your requirements in a better manner. Any task such as making changes and updates to your in-house applications, access to data pool, or hosting the user's entire desktop environment, etc. can be controlled easily.

Allowing users access to computers on the network from a separate or remote location benefits them in various ways. There are other services that can enable any of your windows XP, Vista, W7, W8,

or the other versions to act as a terminal server and allow remote connections without any ado.