windows terminal services versus remote desktop

You could then pick up whatever device you want to connect to the remote desktop experience. Everything of importance would live in a central datacenter somewhere on secure servers behind a firewall.

The theory was that you could shed costs, save deployment time, standardize the application experience and cut end user devices out of the picture entirely. You know-cheaper and easier to run and maintain, giving endless uninterrupted productivity and magical benefits to your end-users.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure was supposed to be a magic bullet a few years back. Like VPN, I would argue that Remote Desktop, VDI, WVD, and all similar variations on this idea are becoming legacy solutions to a legacy problem.īut before we go there… Dismantling the VDI myth Usually this type of service was enabled to provide “remote access” to apps hosted on local server infrastructure.

Many small and mid-sized businesses are already familiar with using Remote Desktop or similar (e.g. I want to talk about Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) as the successor to on-prem deployments of Remote Desktop Services (RDS), and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).

Windows terminal services versus remote desktop