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Windows 2000 Small Business Server

The Terminal Services component of the Windows® 2000 Server operating system delivers the Windows 2000 Professional desktop and the latest Windows-based applications to a wide variety of desktops, including those that normally would not be able to run Windows. Through terminal emulation, Terminal Services allows the same set of applications to run on diverse types of desktop hardware. For organizations wanting to more flexibly deploy applications and control desktop management costs, a Terminal Services architecture offers an important enhancement to the traditional two or three tier client-server architecture based on servers and full scale personal computers.

Centralizes Computing Resources

Terminal Services allows centralized management of some or all computing resources for each client connected to the server and provides each user with their own working environment. Additional Terminal Services advantages include:

Bringing Windows 2000 to desktops faster. Terminal Services acts as a convenient bridging tool for earlier desktops migrating to Windows 2000 Professional. It allows the Windows 2000 desktop experience to be delivered "virtually" to non-PC desktops and PCs that need hardware upgrades before they can run a full Windows 2000 operating system locally. Terminal Services clients are available for many different desktop platforms including MS-DOS®, Windows-based PCs, Macintosh, UNIX and others. (Connectivity to MS-DOS, Macintosh, and UNIX-based machines requires a third party add-on such as Citrix MetaFrame).

Centralized deployment of applications. Terminal Services provides centralized deployment and management of 32-bit Windows-based applications to Windows-based terminals, remote users, or local PC desktops. Terminal Services ensures that all clients can access current versions of an application because the software is installed once on a server, rather than every desktop throughout the company. This model reduces the costs and challenge of updating desktop machines, especially for remotely located desktops or branch office environments. In addition, Terminal Services features such as 'Remote Control' can simplify application support.

Remote administration. Terminal Services provides remote administration for the Windows 2000 Server family. This gives system administrators a powerful method of remotely administering each member of the Windows 2000 Server family from any client device over a LAN, WAN, or dial-up connection.

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