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FIGURE 13-10 Your virtual servers are managed and viewed with VMware.

Terminal Services
The driving technology behind Microsoft’s virtualization efforts is Terminal Services. This is
a component of both Windows servers and clients that allows a user to access applications
and data on a remote computer across any type of network.
Terminal Services is Microsoft’s implementation of a thin-client terminal server computer.
With it, Windows applications or the entire desktop of the computer running Terminal
Services is accessible from a remote machine.
The computer accessing the server doesn’t even have to be a flavor of Windows; it just
has to be running the Terminal Services protocol. Alternatively, it could be a stripped-down
PC or thin client that is running the protocol. With Terminal Services, only the user interface
of the application is presented to the client. All input is sent back to the server where
processing takes place.
Terminal Server is the server component of Terminal Services. This is the piece of
software handling the connection on the server’s end of the connection. It authenticates
clients and makes the applications remotely available. It is also responsible for restricting
clients based on the access level they have.
Terminal Services Web Access makes a session possible through a web browser. A
session can also be initiated by tunneling through a gateway via the TS Gateway service.