Re: SBS 2003 and Terminal Services ?

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OK, long story, but here goes:

In Windows 2000 Terminal Services, there are 2 different TS modes:
1) Terminal Services in Remote Administration mode
This mode gives you a maximum of 2 simultaneous connections to the
server, without additional licensing requirements. Designed for
Administrators, to access the server remotely. By default, only
Administrators can access a server in Remote Administration mode.

2) Terminal Services in Application Server mode
This is the "real" thing: allows for multi-user access, limited
only by the number of Terminal Services Client Access Licenses (TS
CALs) and your hardware.

In Windows 2003, the terminology has changed: What was called "TS
in Application Server mode" on W2K is now simply called "Terminal
Services".
What was called "TS in Remote Administration mode" is now called
"Remote Desktop for Administration". It doesn't need to be
installed, just enabled.

This name change has caused quite some problems: administrators
have installed Terminal Services on 2003, while they only needed
Remote Desktop for Administration. And then after the 120 days
grace period, it stopped functioning, because there are no TS
licenses.

On an SBS 2003 server, you can't make this mistake :-) because it
is impossible to install Terminal Services (implied: in what used
to be called Application Server mode). So the only thing that you
have access to is Remote Desktop for Administration, which is also
what you want.

And no, there is no limiation on what applications you can run in
your remote session to the server.

_________________________________________________________
Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
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<HansHallberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 11 jan 2007 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

Thank you Vera,

One more thing - I don't really know what "Application Server
Mode" is ...

I'm currently running applications on the server using Remote
Desktop - this seems to be working - are there any limitations
about which applications I can/am allowed to run on a SBS, using
remote desktops ?
.

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