Updated: July 10, 2020 (March 17, 2003)
SidebarTerminal Services and Remote Administration
Conceptually, there are two contrasting approaches to management of PCs. Most of this report focuses on one of these approaches: installing applications on each local PC and centrally managing the configuration of Windows, the applications, and the data by using Active Directory, Group Policy, and IntelliMirror.
A second approach is to use a product such as Terminal Services to keep applications and data centralized on servers, and use the PC to provide a “window” to the execution of applications on the server.
However, Microsoft makes licensing of Terminal Services in this mode quite expensive. As a consequence, most organizations only make a subset of their applications available on a centralized server and use the other key feature of Terminal Services, Remote Administration, to connect to PCs to make changes or correct problems.
Terminal Services is a family of related technologies in Windows Server 2003, including Terminal Server, Remote Desktop for Administration, and Remote Assistance.
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