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Terminal Services provides the ability to host multiple, simultaneous client sessions on Windows Server 2003.

Terminal Services provides the ability to host multiple, simultaneous client sessions on Windows Server 2003. Terminal Services is capable of directly hosting compatible multi-user client desktops running on a variety of Windows-based and non Windows-based computers.

What Is Terminal Services?

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Building a Test Citrix Environment

Our customers occasionally ask whether our software would run in a "Citrix environment". Which Citrix products make a typical Citrix environment? How in general does one build a typical Citrix environment for test purposes?
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Enable Remote Desktop on Windows 10 Container

I'm trying to enable remote desktop on a container image. Dockerfile FROM mcr.microsoft.com/windows:2004 EXPOSE 3389 RUN net user administrator Stack0verflow RUN net user administrator /active:yes # I tried disabling the firewall; but this…
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What is X Server and Remote Terminal Server?

Can someone explain what is the difference between X server and Remote Terminal servers in simple terms? For example, Hummingbird Exceed is an X server and Citrix is a Remote Terminal Server. How do these servers work?
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Which local machine components could affect a RDP-session performance-wise?

I've got the following totally reproducible scenario, which I'm unable to understand: There is a very simple application, which does nothing else than calling CreateObject("Word.Application"), that is creating an instance of MS Word for COM interop.…
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Generating RDP file on the fly

I want to create a web application similar to TS Web Access, where I can create rdp files on the fly for Remote Apps configured on the server. Any idea??
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Retrieving Terminal Services Session ID In .NET?

Can anyone please help me discover the .NET equivalent of the following C++ code: DWORD session_id; ProcessIdToSessionId(GetCurrentProcessId(), &session_id); I'm trying to find the current terminal services session number to uniquely name a named…
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Is it possible to run programs locally from a terminal services remote app?

First, I guess I'd have to figure out if I'm running remotely and second I'd have to figure out whether my remote connection is a standalone remote app or an app running on a terminal server (that may be tricky). But, once I've figured out all those…
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Detecting a Citrix XenDesktop Session

I'm looking to determine if our application is running on a XenDesktop session rather than locally. Here is what I have found so far: We currently have code to detect a Citrix XenApp session similar to the solution mentioned by Helge Klein in "API…
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Javascript: why is our website extremely slow in a Terminal Services session?

We created a website that relies heavily on Javascript and has quite a lot of DOM-elements. In all browsers, even IE7 and IE8, this works fine. The user experience is a bit faster and more responsive in IE9, Chrome and Firefox, but even our clients…
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Why do DOS devices defined in an impersonated session not appear in Explorer

I have a Windows service running under the Local System account that creates DOS devices using the DefineDosDevice function. The service is running on a W2K8 Remote Desktop Server. If the devices are created using the service's credentials, they are…
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VB app needs Windows TS thin client unique ID

I have a custom bar code app running on .Net 2.0 framework and installed on a Windows Terminal Server. I’m using HP type thin clients and they are pulling their desktop from the TS that has my barcode app installed on it. For the most part, the…
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Preferred way Of getting Client name From Terminal Server Session

I need to get the underlying client PC name from a user's terminal server session. I know it lives in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Volatile Environment\CLIENTNAME but is there another (preferably native .net) method of getting it?
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How do I discover the image-quality settings of a Remote Desktop session?

I am using DevExpress skins. I implemented a switch to disable skins manually. I need this basically because of a Terminal server (I need to have a flat look to save on connection bandwith). Anyway, the manual switch isn't good because the user must…
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How can we overwrite EXE files while users are running them?

Background: Our companies internal user's run our .Net programs on 10-20 windows terminal servers. The executables are all stored on a central file server running windows 2003. Some of the terminal servers are running windows 2003 and some are…
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Terminal Services: Get Client Name While Running As Administrator

Under normal circumstances, a VB.NET application of mine can check the ClientName environmental variable to get the name of the workstation the user is connecting from. So when WorkstationX RDPs into…
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