Implement a Centralized Desktop Strategy
Remote Desktop Services (RDS) is a centralized desktop and application platform solution that uses session virtualization and VDI technologies, offering you powerful opportunities to deliver and manage corporate desktops while connecting remote workers quickly with their resources. Remote Desktop Services (RDS) in Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 provides an ideal platform for you to implement a centralized desktop strategy, helping your organization improve flexibility and compliance while improving data security and your IT staff’s ability to manage desktops and applications.
RDS enables you to run the desktop or applications in the datacenter while providing users with full fidelity desktop functionality regardless of their location. RDS allows you to install and manage session-based desktops and applications, or VDI desktops on centralized servers in the datacenter. With RDS, screen images are delivered to the users. In turn, their client machines send keystrokes and mouse movements back to the server. When using RDS, you can present users with an entire desktop environment, or with their individual applications and data which they require to complete their task. From a user perspective, these applications are integrated seamlessly—looking, feeling, and behaving like local applications.
Accelerate Desktop and Application Deployment
RDS accelerates and extends deployment of desktops and applications to a wide array of client devices, helping make your organization more agile and responsive. RDS also enables flexible work scenarios such as hot-desking and work from home.
Help Secure Data and Applications
RDS helps your organization keep critical intellectual property highly secure and helps radically simplify regulatory compliance by removing applications and data from the desktop.
Increase Remote Worker Efficiency
RDS helps simplify remote connectivity, enabling rich applications to be accessed from a webpage and seamlessly integrated with a local desktop, improving remote worker efficiency.
Together with technology from
Microsoft partners that leverage the platform capabilities found in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, RDS can be a cost-effective solution for any type of organization, particularly those with a mobile workforce, structured task workers, or knowledge workers with a need for flexible desktop or application access, including contractors, offshore workers, and office workers who require a free seating environment or have a need to work from home. Regardless of the size of your organization, deploying RDS can provide the flexibility and functionality needed to deliver real business value to your business.