Terminal Services

[Guest jeffuk123]

Hello

 

With regards installing Terminal Services:-

 

What is the console session?

 

How many automatic logons does it allow?

 

If different user accounts wished to logon i.e. those without administrative

privileges, what is the individual cost per user and is their own desktop

downloaded when they logon through Terminal Services?

 

Thanks to all for any help,

Jeff

[Guest Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: Terminal Services

 

The console session is the user session on the physical console of

the server. On a Windows 2003 server, you can remotely connect to

the console session. There can always be only a single console

session, and it is available to Administrators only (by default).

 

When you enable Remote Desktop for Administration, you have a

maximum of 3 free connections: 2 normal ones and the remote console

session. There are no additional license requirements.

 

When you install Terminal Services, you will loose you free

connections, apart from the single console session, which is always

available without extra licensing.

The number of logons (i.e. user sessions) is only limited by the

number of licenses that you install, and the hardware of your

server (how much simultaneous sessions it can sustain without being

totally overloaded). There is no hardcoded limit.

 

For each connecting user or device, you will need a TS CAL and a

normal (server CAL). If the clients are already part of a domain,

they might already have a normal CAL. To get a price, contact the

nearest reseller, because prices vary, depending how and where you

buy them.

 

When users connect, they get initially a standard Windows 2003

desktop. But this is their personal version, and they can modify it

(if you allow them to do so, which is something that most

administrators go to great lenghts to disable). The personal user

settings, including the desktop settings, are saved in the user's

TS profile which must be different from their normal client desktop

profile. So any changes a user make to the TS desktop will still be

there the next time they logon (depending again on how you

configure their TS profile, and if you allow any changes at all).

 

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Vera Noest

MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net

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=?Utf-8?B?amVmZnVrMTIz?= <jeffuk123@discussions.microsoft.com>

wrote on 19 feb 2008 in

microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> Hello

>

> With regards installing Terminal Services:-

>

> What is the console session?

>

> How many automatic logons does it allow?

>

> If different user accounts wished to logon i.e. those without

> administrative privileges, what is the individual cost per user

> and is their own desktop downloaded when they logon through

> Terminal Services?

>

> Thanks to all for any help,

> Jeff