What Can You Do with Terminal Services?
The preceding section provides a (very fast) look at where server-based Windows came from and how it became part of the core Windows platform for both client and server. But what do you do with it?
Fundamentally, Terminal Services breaks the hard links between location and capability. With a PC, you are absolutely tied to what that computer can do. With server-based computing, the capabilities are more flexible. This has benefits for security, location, and device independence.
Improve Security for Remote Users
Totally PC-based computing has problems with data security. More and more people work on laptops, and laptops are meant to be taken places. But laptops with data stored on them are a security risk, even ...
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