Content

The Book

...	Table of Content
...	Preface
...	About This Book

Part I –
A Beginner's Guide to Remote Desktop Services

1	Overview and History
2	Installation
3	Licensing
4	Configuration
5	Client Software
6	Application Installation
7	System Administration
8	Network Planning
9	Printing
10	User Environment

Part II –
An Expert's Guide to Remote Desktop Services

11	Virtualization
12	RDS Internals
13	Remoting Protocol Details
14	Security
15	Registry Settings
16	Server Sizing
17	Resource Management
18	Testing and Quality Assurance
19	RDS Scripting
20	RDS for Developers

Author's Profile

...	About
...	Benny's Biography
...	Presentations 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 and earlier

Awards

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services

5. User Access and Client Software

Posted by Benny Tritsch on September 10, 2008

[User Access] [RDP] [Client Types] [RDC Configuration] [Web Client]

5.1. Remote Desktop Protocol Basics

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In May of 1997, Microsoft began developing a protocol for providing remote desktops from terminal servers to Windows workstations. This protocol was named RDP (remote desktop protocol) and was initially based on International Telecommunication Union (ITU) standards. Historically, RDP was strongly aligned with communication mechanisms that were already in use for data exchange under Microsoft NetMeeting. Today the RDP protocol goes far beyond the scope of the original design, however, there are still some technical details that remind you of its heritage.

Any device can act as an RDP client as long as it has an output medium, a mouse, and a keyboard. It also needs to be able to communicate over the network using TCP/IP. Further intelligence is not needed on the client side. The currently available RDP client software provided by Microsoft supports the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of currently available Windows operating systems and Apple Mac OS X.

To be continued...

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5	User Access and Client Software
5.1	Remote Desktop Protocol Basics
5.2	Client Types and Planning
5.3	Remote Desktop Connection Configuration
5.4	Web Client