What's new in Terminal Services on Windows 2008

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”.

RDP over SSH or Connect to Terminal Server (RDP) via secure connection

Situation, we want to connect through the RDP protocol to a server that is on the other side of the Internet, I make a case study. We imagine that I am at home with a normal PC and a normal MODEM/ADSL connection, I want to connect to a server of my company. My company's public IP is the 212.011.234.068, and I have for example 4 RDP servers within the network (the 192.168.0.101, 102, 103 and 104), the first thing is the FW of the company map the port 22 (SSH) to the SSH server, which in my case study will be the 192.168.0.101. Then simply from the PC we will open an SSH connection to the FW, it will redirect me to SERVIDOR01 and once logged in via SSH, I minimize the putty screen (SSH Client) and from my own PC I can open the Windows RDP client and connect to the server I want.

Creating a ThinClient on an outdated PC and using it to connect to RDP or ICA

This procedure explains how to get a PC with minimal hardware and without all its components to perfectly boot the software necessary for an employee to work with only their applications. Another advantage would be economic savings, since it would not be necessary to expand all the company's PCs, but only the hardware of the servers. It's centralized management and if a team fails, just restart it and in a minute a minimal Linux distribution would be downloaded that connects it via ICA to the Metaframe server to run only the published applications.

License a Terminal Server on Windows 2003

To be able to work with Terminal Services for more than 90 days you need to buy licenses and activate them. The part of buying them we leave to the Department. Commercial :), Here's how to install them on a server so that they don't expire and users can work perfectly. This procedure explains how to license a Windows 2000 Server, but it's exactly the same for a Windows server 2003.