Windows Server® 2008 Terminal Services Resource Kit [Paperback]

Christa Anderson (Author), Kristin L. Griffin (Author)

Book Description

Series: Resource Kit | Publication Date: November 26, 2008

In-depth and comprehensive, this Resource Kit delivers the information you need to set up, deploy, and manage a Terminal Services farm using Windows Server® 2008. You get authoritative technical insights from Terminal Services experts, including guidance from members of the Microsoft® product team—along with essential scripts and resources on CD.

Get expert advice on how to:

• Install and configure role services, and learn how they support business cases
• Apply best practices for securing terminal servers and authorizing executables
• Use Group Policy to configure a terminal server environment
• Redirect devices effectively to make a remote experience feel local
• Install and publish applications with TS RemoteApps programs and TS Web Access
• Create a secure, fault-tolerant WAN access solution using TS Gateway
• Manage terminal servers and user sessions with command-line and graphical tools
• Keep server roles available and restorable through change management, including virtualization approaches

CD features:

• 8 sample VBScript scripts
• 8 sample Windows PowerShell™ scripts
• 250+ links to tools and toolkits, documentation, Webcasts, labs, and classes
• Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions From Desktop to Datacenter eBook
• Network diagram and sample files
• Sample chapters from related Microsoft Press® books
• Fully searchable eBook of this guide

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About the Author

Christa Anderson is a program manager on the Remote Desktop Virtualization team. A Terminal Services MVP before she joined Microsoft, she was an internationally known writer and speaker on server-hosted computing and a senior contributing editor and columnist for Windows IT Pro Magazine.

Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press; Pap/Cdr edition (November 26, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735625859
• ISBN-13: 978-0735625853
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #662,116 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The best Microsoft Resource Kit I've ever read, January 17, 2009

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Paul Schnackenburg (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Windows Server® 2008 Terminal Services Resource Kit (Paperback)

My memory of reading various Microsoft Resource Kits mostly consists of dry, highly technical and not very accessible content. I mean a Resource Kit isn't something you read, it's something you refer to and look up facts in.
I was pleasantly surprised by this book, it's very accessible, clearly laid out and really covers not only the technical ground but also the business case for each of the additions to TS in Windows Server 2008. Sizing hardware for a terminal server is covered in detail as is the comparison of a 32 bit or 64 bit platforms. Profile management, locking down TS servers and licensing is all covered. New features in TS 2008 are covered in great detail, the Session Broker is explained, TS Gateway and TS Remote Apps are fully taken care of as is Easy Printing.
Interspersed in the regular text are short sections where particular technologies are thoroughly explained by various members of the TS team at Microsoft and they too make interesting reading.

All in all this is a must have book for anyone tasked with running a Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Server or farm.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good resource for terminal services administrators or evaluators, August 20, 2009

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J. Snavely "jellybiscuit" (Raleigh, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Windows Server® 2008 Terminal Services Resource Kit (Paperback)

This book was an excellent resource for learning the new terminal services features in Windows 2008.

I have been running terminal services and citrix for a decade now, but had not kept up with the new features in 2008. This book quickly gave me the information I needed to design an environment for a new project one of our teams wanted to implement.

Despite the name, this is more of a book to be read than strictly a reference like many other resource kits. The 500 pages went quickly and proved very useful.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well laid out, excellent breadth of information that is very accesable, March 13, 2009

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Jon Wojan (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Windows Server® 2008 Terminal Services Resource Kit (Paperback)

This book is a very well laid out and pretty comprehensive compile of all the various items needed to plan, scale, configure and manage a Terminal Services infrastructure. Before this book, most of this material was scattered throughout whitepapers, Knowledge Base articles and in the tribal knowledge of people who work with the product. Thanks to this book, its all provided in one place in a very easy to find manner (especially when you take into account that there is a searchable soft copy of the book on the accompanying CD) This book gives people from the neophyte level to seasoned administrators a easy to use resource to understand and reference.