Re: Terminal Services
The console session is the user session on the physical console of
the server. On a Windows 2003 server, you can remotely connect to
the console session. There can always be only a single console
session, and it is available to Administrators only (by default).
When you enable Remote Desktop for Administration, you have a
maximum of 3 free connections: 2 normal ones and the remote console
session. There are no additional license requirements.
When you install Terminal Services, you will loose you free
connections, apart from the single console session, which is always
available without extra licensing.
The number of logons (i.e. user sessions) is only limited by the
number of licenses that you install, and the hardware of your
server (how much simultaneous sessions it can sustain without being
totally overloaded). There is no hardcoded limit.
For each connecting user or device, you will need a TS CAL and a
normal (server CAL). If the clients are already part of a domain,
they might already have a normal CAL. To get a price, contact the
nearest reseller, because prices vary, depending how and where you
buy them.
When users connect, they get initially a standard Windows 2003
desktop. But this is their personal version, and they can modify it
(if you allow them to do so, which is something that most
administrators go to great lenghts to disable). The personal user
settings, including the desktop settings, are saved in the user's
TS profile which must be different from their normal client desktop
profile. So any changes a user make to the TS desktop will still be
there the next time they logon (depending again on how you
configure their TS profile, and if you allow any changes at all).
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Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting:
http://ts.veranoest.net
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=?Utf-8?B?amVmZnVrMTIz?= <jeffuk123@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote on 19 feb 2008 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:
> Hello
>
> With regards installing Terminal Services:-
>
> What is the console session?
>
> How many automatic logons does it allow?
>
> If different user accounts wished to logon i.e. those without
> administrative privileges, what is the individual cost per user
> and is their own desktop downloaded when they logon through
> Terminal Services?
>
> Thanks to all for any help,
> Jeff