TS – Terminal Services is Microsoft's technology that provides us with remote access to applications installed on a server from computers on the local network or from the Internet. Of course, this would not be the right way to access a server to manage it, simply for users to connect to server desktops or applications, never to administer it, That's what it's for to check the “Enable Remote Desktop on this server” in “Control Panel” > “System”.

On Windows 2008, Microsoft ha inplementado diferentes roles de servidores, ahora hay un servidor de Terminal Server, TS Session Broker, TS Gateway y TS Web Access.

– Remote Desktop Connection 6.0 – 6.1, Es el cliente RDP, es el cliente que utilizaremos para conectarnos a servidores de Microsoft Terminal server, disponible para todas las versiones de Windows, por defecto en Windows Vista y Windows Server 2008. However, también se encuentra disponible para su descarga en la web de www.microsoft.com para los diferentes sistemas operativos Windows XP y Windows Server 2003.

– TS – Terminal Server, es el servidor que corre las aplicaciones y al que se conectarán a los usuarios. Tenemos la instalación en este documento HERE. Su configuración en otro documento: HERE.

– TS Session Agent – TS Session Broker, es cómo en Citrix, una comunidad de servidores que se balancean la carga entre ellos, nada más que eso. Stores information corresponding to the different sessions, como por ejemplo Session ID y los usuarios asociados a la misma, y el nombre del servidor en el cual dicha sesión se encuentra. To view the document: HERE.

– TS Gateway – TS Gateway, will be the server that provides users access to Terminal Server servers from the Internet. TS Gateway uses RDP over HTTPS, to provide a secure and encrypted connection between the remote user and the internal network resources. To view the document: HERE.

– TS Web Access – TS Web Access, installs on an IIS server an add-on that will be used as a Terminal Services client to use it with browsers, both from the local network and from the Internet. HERE.

– TS Remote Applications – TS Remote App, As its name indicates, provides access to applications, to remote clients that have the Windows Vista operating systems, Windows XP SP2, being in the last case necessary to have the new version of the Remote Desktop client, using the Internet Explorer browser. To view the document: HERE.

– TS Licenses – TS Licensing, It is the licensing server for Terminal Server services, where we will enter the acquired licenses and the TS servers will point for correct license use, if we do not install them we have 120 days of use – HERE.

In addition we have these additional applications: Configuration of Terminal Services – TS Configuration – HERE, TS Administration – TS Manager – HERE and TS Remote Desktops – TS Remote Desktops – HERE.

In this other document we have topics related to all the GPO/group policies of Active Directory and Terminal Services – HERE