Many organizations that use Remote Desktop Services or Terminal Services are not using a VPN connection before allowing connections to their in-house servers or workstations. If no VPN is required, ...

How far is too far? If you can throw a wad of paper — from your desk — at all your end users, chances are your organization doesn’t need “remote” connectivity. However, to administer and maintain ...

Sun Microsystems was fond of saying, “the network is the computer.” Microsoft seems to have bought in at least partly to that notion — the two companies are now friends, or not enemies, or somewhere ...

One of the coolest new features introduced in Windows 2000 was Terminal Services Remote Admin mode. Thanks to Terminal Services’ integration into the base operating system, up to two administrators ...

A multiuser, thin client environment for Windows servers from Microsoft. The user's machine functions like an input/output (I/O) terminal to the central server. Software installation, configuration ...

We have 6 terminal servers in application mode. <BR><BR>We use remote control of the local console quite often on these machines. Either through the Terminal Services Manager snap in, or the command ...

The technology provides secure remote access to a broad spectrum of applications and network resources Application-layer VPNs are generating lots of attention these days. Proponents cite the ...

I wrote a small GUI based application (in VB.NET 2005) that uses the new .NET 2.0 settings architecture. I have the "roaming profile" attribute set for these settings values. This application was ...

A multiuser, thin client environment for Windows servers from Microsoft. Introduced in Windows NT 4.0 in 1996, as of the 2009 launch of Windows Server 2008 R2, Terminal Services became part of Remote ...