Server 2008 Terminal Services Part 0: Introduction to the Series
Server 2008 is coming. By year’s end this update to our core Server operating system should be ready for deployment. As a function of the five year delay between this and our last server O/S, Microsoft has had plenty of time to work on a host of new feature sets. But, there is one in particular that rises above the rest and has the potential for driving the most immediate desire to upgrade: Terminal Services
The justification for this bold statement lies direct within the new capabilities W2008’s Terminal Services provides the Windows administrator. These feature sets, previously only available in TS’s big brother “Citrix Presentation Server,” are now available at no added cost natively in the operating system.
So what are these new features? What do they do, and why should be excited about them? That’s the subject of this, the first in an eleven part Realtime Windows Server series on Terminal Services in Server 2008. In the next ten posts...
...we’ll take a quick look at 10 compelling features – one per day – that are guaranteed to get you excited about the new functionality, security, and just plain coolness of our old friend, TermServ.
Starting tomorrow, our daily conversation will revolve around the following topics:
- Part 1: Remote Desktop Connection 6.0
- Part 2: NLA – Network Level Authentication
- Part 3: Connecting to "the Console"
- Part 4: New Terminal Server Manager
- Part 5: Easy Print
- Part 6: RemoteApp
- Part 7: Web Access
- Part 8: TS Gateway
- Part 9: TS Session Broker
- Part 10: Licensing
So, hook up your RSS feeder or keep coming back every day. Because at the end of these 10 days, I guarantee you’ll be excited about our soon-to-release Microsoft server O/S and all its fancy new functionality.
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