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Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
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Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1680 pages
88h 3m
English
Sams
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Improvements for Thin-Client Remote Desktop Services

Windows Server 2012 has seen significant improvements in the Terminal Services (now called Remote Desktop Services [RDS]) capabilities for thin-client access for remote users and managed users in the enterprise. Third-party add-ons used to be required to make the basic Windows 2000 or 2003 Terminal Services functional, but Microsoft included those technologies in Windows Server 2008 and further enhanced them in Windows Server 2012. You can now access RDS using a standard port 443 Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection rather than the proprietary port 3389, and can publish just specific programs rather than the entire desktop. In addition, improvements now allow a client to have a larger remote-access ...

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