With Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008,
Microsoft releases its most powerful centralized application platform
ever, offering an impressive array of new capabilities that dramatically
improve the administrator and user experiences.
The new Terminal Services features provide a substantial upgrade in
functionality, performance, and user experience. Terminal Services now
provides centralized access to individual applications without the need
to provide the whole remote desktop. Applications running remotely are
integrated with the local user's desktop - looking, feeling, and
behaving like local applications. Organizations can provide more secure
access to centralized applications or desktops, and other resources from
the Internet, by using HTTPS, without needing to provide access via a
Virtual Private Network (VPN) or opening up unwanted ports on firewalls.
This reduces the complexity needed to provide secure remote access to
applications and data for users, partners, or customers. For deployments
with several servers, the new load-balancing features provide a simple
way to ensure optimal performance by spreading sessions among the
least-loaded available resources.
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