Installing and configuring a Terminal Server with windows 2008:
Microsoft first introduced Terminal server with its Windows NT operating system. Terminal server today has come a very long way since Windows NT.
In windows 2000 the terminal server had to be installed from the control panel Add remove programs and ADD / Remove windows components. It offered you two options:
- Installing Terminal services for remote admin mode.
- Terminal server in application server mode.
This was later modified with windows 2003 & its subsequent R2 release with the Remote Tab under My computer properties, so that you do not need to install the terminal server for remote admin mode.
With Windows server 2008 and 2008 R2 a lot of additional features were added and improved with windows 2008 R2. This discussion only deals with Terminal server in windows server 2008 and not the remote desktop role with windows server 2008 R2.
To install the terminal server role.
Open the server Manager console, click on ADD roles.
Under the list of server roles, select Terminal services.
