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Since I have begun working in the virtualization business, customers have been asking for reasons why to spend money for Citrix XenApp and whether Remote Desktop Services (RDS) cuts it for them. For a long time, the answer was easy as hosted sessions on Windows Remote Desktop Services – formerly Terminal Services – have only provided basic functionality. But beginning with Windows Server 2008, Microsoft has put a lot of effort into that space. The underlying roles were steadily improved in every version, e.g. to support rich graphics and virtual desktops. With the public beta of the next Windows Server (8), Microsoft has improved the performance of RDP and built new management capabilities into Server Manager.

From my point of view this may well be changing the game with Citrix with respect to hosted sessions. Let’s have a closer look.

Bezug nehmend auf meinen letzten Blogeintrag in welchem ich gezeigt habe, wie schnell sich ACS-Dateien mit Hilfe des ACS-Builder erstellen lassen (http://www.profilemigrator.com/d/tom/2011/02/21/acs-dateien-mit-dem-acs-builder-erstellen), werde ich in diesem Beitrag darauf eingehen, wie diese ACS-Dateien zusätzlich editiert werden können.

Das Tool dazu ist der ACS-Editor. Dieser wird genauso wie der ACS-Builder mit dem Profile Migrator ausgeliefert.

Wie in einem meiner vorherigen Beiträgen beschrieben, kann man den Schlüsseltyp für einen KMS Client ändern. Dies ist dann wichtig, wenn man die Rechner zuerst mit einem Multiple Activation Key (MAK) aktiviert hatte und man danach seine KMS Infrastruktur aufgebaut hat.

My colleague Nicki Wruck (@CommunityGuide) has started a huge series of short videos about the features in Windows Server 2008 R2 - in German.

Windows Server 2008 R2 has more than 80 features available to the administrator to supplement the numerous roles. But many of these features have strange names making them close to impossible to understand.