Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Remote Desktop Service 5 User CAL

Role description

The Remote Desktop Services role provides technologies that enable users to connect to virtual desktops, RemoteApp programs, and session-based desktops. With Remote Desktop Services, users can access remote connections from within a corporate network or from the Internet.

Practical applications

Remote Desktop Services allows workers to work anywhere. Some of the key benefits of Remote Desktop Services include:

• Unified administration experience Administer your session and virtual desktop collections, configure your RemoteApp programs, manage your virtual desktops, and add servers to the deployment from one centralized console.
• User personalization User profile disks allow you to preserve user personalization settings across session collections and pooled virtual desktop collections.
• Less expensive storage Pooled virtual desktops can use local storage live migration between host computers. Personal virtual desktops can use storage located on network shares.
• Automated pooled virtual desktop management Deploy and manage pooled virtual desktops centrally by using a virtual desktop template. Any changes, such as application installation or security updates, are installed on the virtual desktop template, and the pooled virtual desktops are then recreated from the virtual desktop template.

New and changed functionality for Windows Server 2012 R2

In Windows Server 2012 R2, Remote Desktop Services includes enhancements in the following areas:

• Monitor and control by using session shadowing
• Reduced storage requirements and improved performance accessing common data
• RemoteApp programs perform more like locally-based applications
• Improved reconnection performance for remote clients
• Improved compression allowing improved usage of network bandwidth
• Display resolution changes are automatically reflected on the remote client
• RemoteFX virtualized GPU supports DX11.1