In the August 2007 edition of TechNet Magazine, there is a nice article written by Wes Miller detailing the history of RDP, new functionality in Windows Vista, new functionality in Windows Server 2008, and some nice tips and tricks. Wes writes, “The Remote Desktop Protocol, or RDP, allows you to access machines remotely. It’s a very useful piece of technology that has undoubtedly saved more than a few system admins over the years. RDP has a long history of providing better and better remote access support. It was introduced in 1998 for Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition (TSE) and has evolved in almost every release of Windows® since.

…Windows Server 2008 includes Remote Desktop functions of its own: Terminal Services Web Access and Terminal Services Easy Print.

TS Web Access allows someone using a Web browser to view a list of programs that have been enabled on the remote server as RemoteApps, and easily launch them in a single click via the Remote Desktop ActiveX control. In some senses, you can think of this as an experience similar to the SoftGrid Application Virtualization experience I mentioned in last month’s column on the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, where a remote user easily launches an application without requiring any locally installed software. It will be interesting to watch over the next few years to see how the scenarios for using SoftGrid versus Terminal Services technologies compare…”

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