Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008 were enhanced by many new features. In this post, I summarized some of the more general improvements. In the next post in this series, I will write about the TS enhancements related to multi-user mode. These posts are partly a summary of Mitch Tulloch’s Terminal Services chapter in his Windows Server 2008 book.

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In my first article about the new features of Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008, I discussed some general enhancements. Today, I will examine the improvements regarding its multi-user mode.

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There are several changes in Windows Server 2008 with regard to the way Terminal Services work in remote administration mode. Some are enhancements; at least one is a change for the worse. This post summarizes the most important changes.

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Some days ago, I linked to a new KB article about the changes in RDP 6.1 in a tweet. While the information there is quite useful, it does not explain what happened to the console switch. It seems to me that there is still much confusion about this issue. I just read in the German magazine “Windows Server Praxis” that the console parameter of the RDP client has been renamed to “admin”. However, this is not entirely true because the admin switch has new functions too.

RDP 6.1 is only supported by Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) 6.1 which is included in Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3 and Windows Server 2008. There is no separate download of RDC 6.1, but the system administrator blog has a description about how to get it running on Windows XP SP2. I suppose there is a similar solution for Vista RTM.

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