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What’s the difference between a RDS CAL and a TS CAL?

Hi, I’m Alex from the Remote Desktop Services (RDS) team. I want to talk about the Windows Server 2008 RDS CAL which replaces the older Terminal Services (TS) CAL. I want to explain why the name changed, what this means for you and how we have added some

Remote Desktop Connection 7 for Windows 7, Windows XP & Windows Vista

Introduction Now that we have released Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2 to manufacturing, we wanted to share our plans to make the Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) 7.0 client available to Windows XP and Windows Vista. RDC 7 will ensure that when

Running WS08 Terminal Server as a virtualized guest under Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V

One question that the RDS team is asked is whether running Terminal Server virtualized is supported and recommended.  To answer this question we’ve recently conducted some performance testing of this configuration using WS08 Terminal Server running

How MSIT Uses Terminal Services as a Scalable Remote Access Solution

The MSIT pilot project of Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services was so successful that Microsoft IT went on to test the scalability and performance into the production environment. The environment acts as a SSL-based remote access solution and MSIT was

Latest TS Webcast – Includes TS Easy Print, TS RemoteApp™, Tip and Tricks and more!

Hi everyone, This webcast seems to have slipped by without us posting about it! This webcast updates our earlier web casts with information on many of the great new Beta 3 features. If you missed the live web cast, you can still watch this session by

Terminal Services Licensing TechCenter

Terminal Services Licensing is a topic that we know many of you are, well lets say, passionate about. To make it easier to find key information on licensing we have created a new Terminal Services Licensing TechCenter on TechNet– the TechCenters are where

Office 2007 Beta on Terminal Servers

Many of you have had issues installing Office 2007 Beta 2 and Office 2007 Beta 2 Tech Refresh. Depending on whether you downloaded Office 2007 from the web or used one of our eval CD / DVDs you will get one of two different product keys one of which causes
 
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