Implementing the Microsoft Remote Desktop Services Application and Desktop Pools

VMware Horizon includes the ability to stream individual Windows applications or desktop sessions to clients using Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS), a feature formally known as Terminal Services. Application streaming is particularly useful to those clients that require access only to applications, as the application appears to them as it would if it were installed on their device, even if they are using a tablet-based Horizon client. For those clients, this is typically a much more efficient means of accessing their applications than navigating a traditional desktop GUI on a tablet device. While application streaming is not in itself a new feature, this feature enables individual applications to be accessed directly from the Horizon client.

In this book, the terms RDS and Remote Desktop...