Windows Server Remote Desktop Services

"Makes it possible to run an application or an entire desktop in one location"

With RDS, you can install and manage session-based desktops and applications, or virtual-machine based desktops on centralized servers in the data center. Screen images are delivered to the users, and the users' client machines, in turn, send keystrokes and mouse movements back to the server.

Remote Desktop Services (RDS) is a centralized desktop and application platform solution that uses session virtualization and VDI technologies, offering you powerful opportunities to deliver and manage corporate desktops while connecting remote workers quickly with their resources. Remote Desktop Services (RDS) in Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 provides an ideal platform for you to implement a centralized desktop strategy, helping your organization improve flexibility and compliance while improving data security and your IT staff’s ability to manage desktops and applications.

RDS enables you to run the desktop or applications in the datacenter while providing users with full fidelity desktop functionality regardless of their location. RDS allows you to install and manage session-based desktops and applications, or VDI desktops on centralized servers in the datacenter. With RDS, screen images are delivered to the users. In turn, their client machines send keystrokes and mouse movements back to the server. When using RDS, you can present users with an entire desktop environment, or with their individual applications and data which they require to complete their task. From a user perspective, these applications are integrated seamlessly—looking, feeling, and behaving like local applications.

In addition to the traditional session virtualization scenario, which Terminal Services has enabled for many years, Windows Server 2008 R2 has expanded its role to provide an extensible platform for a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). VDI is a centralized desktop delivery architecture which allows customers to centralize the storage, execution, and management of a Windows desktop in the datacenter. It enables Windows 7 Enterprise and other desktop environments to run and be managed in virtual machines on a centralized server.

Key Benefits
• Accelerate Application & Desktop Deployment
• Simplify Life Cycle Management of Applications & Data
• Increase Remote Worker Efficiency
• Help Secure Data and Application
• Simplify Regulatory Compliance