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83-412: Several clients exist for most versions of Microsoft Windows (including Windows Mobile but the support has ended), Linux (for example Remmina ), Unix , macOS , iOS , Android , and other operating systems . RDP servers are built into the server and professional editions of Windows operating systems but not home editions; an RDP server for Unix and OS X also exists (for example xrdp ). By default,

166-620: A Storage Area Network , in which the data is transferred in terms of chunks rather than files, thus providing more granularity to the data that can be transferred. This provides higher performance to database and transaction processing applications. Windows Storage Server 2003 also allows NAS devices to be connected to a SAN. Windows Storage Server 2003 led to a second release named Windows Storage Server 2003 R2. This release adds file-server performance optimization, Single Instance Storage (SIS), and index-based search. Single instance storage (SIS) scans storage volumes for duplicate files, and moves

249-481: A "staging ground" for conducting other types of fraud or to access sensitive personal or corporate data. Researchers further report instances of cybercriminals using RDPs to directly drop malware on computers. List of Remote Desktop Protocol clients Remote Desktop Protocol clients allow users to connect to servers running Remote Desktop Services , Azure Virtual Desktop , or non- Microsoft server software to enable remote desktop functionality. Since

332-459: A Citrix copyright rather than a Microsoft copyright. Later versions of Windows integrated the necessary support directly. The T.128 application sharing technology was acquired by Microsoft from UK software developer Data Connection Limited . This version was introduced with Windows 2000 Server , added support for a number of features, including printing to local printers, and aimed to improve network bandwidth usage. The RDP clients available through

415-457: A SAN, without any modification to the application. The Datacenter edition, like the Enterprise edition, supports 8-node clustering . Clustering increases availability and fault tolerance of server installations by distributing and replicating the service among many servers. This edition supports clustering with each cluster having its own dedicated storage, or with all cluster nodes connected to

498-609: A Storage Management snap-in for the Microsoft Management Console. It can be used to manage storage volumes centrally, including DFS shares, on servers running Windows Storage Server R2. Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 can be used as an iSCSI target with standard and enterprise editions of Windows Storage Server 2003 R2, incorporating WinTarget iSCSI technology which Microsoft acquired in 2006 by from StringBean software. This will be an add-on feature available for purchase through OEM partners as an iSCSI feature pack, or

581-566: A Windows computer to be compromised by unauthenticated clients and computer worms . RDP client version 6.1 can be used to reveal the names and pictures of all users on the RDP Server (no matter which Windows version) in order to pick one, if no username is specified for the RDP connection. In March 2018 Microsoft released a patch for CVE - 2018-0886 , a remote code execution vulnerability in CredSSP, which

664-531: A back-end with another remote server as the front-end, CALs may still be required. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard is aimed towards small to medium-sized businesses. Standard Edition supports file and printer sharing, offers secure Internet connectivity, and allows centralized desktop application deployment. A specialized variant for the x64 architecture was released in April 2005. The IA-32 variants supports up to four physical processors and up to 4 GB RAM;

747-463: A backup system to restore lost files has been created together with improved disk management, including the ability to back up from shadows of files, allowing the backup of open files. Another important area where improvements have been made are the scripting and command-line tools, with the improvements being part of Microsoft's initiative to bring a complete command shell to the next version of Windows. Other notable new features include support for

830-689: A build number of 2721. This was followed by build 2805, known as Beta 2 Refresh. The final build is 3790. Microsoft has described Service Pack 2 as a "standard" service pack release containing previously released security updates, hotfixes, and reliability and performance improvements. In addition, Service Pack 2 contains Microsoft Management Console 3.0, Windows Deployment Services (which replaces Remote Installation Services ), support for WPA2 , and improvements to IPsec and MSConfig. Service Pack 2 also adds Windows Server 2003 Scalable Networking Pack (SNP), which allows hardware acceleration for processing network packets, thereby enabling faster throughput. SNP

913-470: A common SAN. Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS), released in June 2006, is designed for high-end applications that require high performance computing clusters . It is designed to be deployed on numerous computers to be clustered together to achieve supercomputing speeds. Each Compute Cluster Server network comprises at least one controlling head node and subordinate processing nodes that carry out most of

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996-470: A download. This version was introduced with Windows Vista and incorporated support for Windows Presentation Foundation applications, Network Level Authentication , multi-monitor spanning and large desktop support, and TLS 1.0 connections. The RDP 6.0 client is available on Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1/SP2 (x86 and x64 editions) and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition through KB925876. Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Macintosh OS X

1079-519: A hardware-based " watchdog timer ", which can restart the server if the operating system does not respond within a certain amount of time. On this version of Windows Server the Themes service is disabled by default, defaulting to the appearance of previous Windows versions (such as Windows 2000). Windows Server 2003 comes in a number of editions, each targeted towards a particular size and type of business. In general, all variants of Windows Server 2003 have

1162-469: A part of Citrix WinFrame atop Windows NT 3.51, in order to support multiple users and login sessions simultaneously. Microsoft required Citrix to license their MultiWin technology to Microsoft in order to be allowed to continue offering their own terminal-services product, then named Citrix MetaFrame, atop Windows NT 4.0. The Citrix-provided DLLs included in Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Services Edition still carry

1245-829: A part of the Windows Server 2003 series, is a specialized server operating system for network-attached storage (NAS). Launched in 2003 at Storage Decisions in Chicago, it is optimized for use in file and print sharing and also in storage area network (SAN) scenarios. It is only available through Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Unlike other Windows Server 2003 editions that provide file and printer sharing functionality, Windows Storage Server 2003 does not require any CAL. Windows Storage Server 2003 NAS equipment can be headless , which means that they are without any monitors, keyboards or mice, and are administered remotely. Such devices are plugged into any existing IP network and

1328-420: A processor with ACPI in any supported architecture ( x86 , x64 and Itanium ). As of July 2016, 18% of organizations used servers that were running Windows Server 2003. Windows Server 2003 is the follow-up to Windows 2000 Server, incorporating compatibility and other features from Windows XP . Unlike Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003's default installation has none of the server components enabled, to reduce

1411-468: A remote administrator connects to the "console", this version has new functionality introduced in Windows Server 2008, such as connecting remotely to individual programs and a new client-side printer redirection system that makes the client's print capabilities available to applications running on the server, without having to install print drivers on the server also on the other hand, remote administrator can freely install, add/remove any software or setting at

1494-557: A user to remotely log into a networked computer running the Remote Desktop Services . RDC presents the desktop interface (or application GUI) of the remote system, as if it were accessed locally. In addition to regular username/password for authorizing for the remote session, RDC also supports using smart cards for authorization. Although replacements have been released, as of the release of the Windows App , Remote Desktop Client

1577-519: Is a RDP client that started as a fork of redesktop in 2009. It was created with the aim of modularizing the code, addressing various issues, and implementing new features. FreeRDP comes with its own command-line-client xfreerdp , which supports Seamless Windows in RDP6. Around 2011, the project decided to abandon forking and instead rewrite under Apache License , adding more features like RemoteFX, RemoteApp, and NTLMv2. A commercial distribution called Thincast

1660-668: Is a Security Support Provider involved in the Microsoft Remote Desktop and Windows Remote Management, discovered by Preempt. In May 2019 Microsoft issued a security patch for CVE - 2019-0708 (" BlueKeep "), a vulnerability which allows for the possibility of remote code execution and which Microsoft warned was "wormable", with the potential to cause widespread disruption. Unusually, patches were also made available for several versions of Windows that had reached their end-of-life, such as Windows XP . No immediate malicious exploitation followed, but experts were unanimous that this

1743-661: Is a Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 Transition Pack. Windows Home Server (WHS) is an operating system from Microsoft based on Windows Small Business Server 2003 SP2. Windows Home Server was announced on January 7, 2007, at the Consumer Electronics Show by Bill Gates and is intended to be a solution for homes with multiple connected PCs to offer file sharing, automated backups, and remote access. Windows Home Server began shipment to OEMs on September 15, 2007. Windows Server 2003 for Embedded Systems replaced "Windows 2000 Server for Embedded Systems". Intended use

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1826-525: Is also available with support for Intel and PowerPC Mac OS versions 10.4.9 and greater. This version was released in February 2008 and is first included with Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 and later backported to Windows XP with Service Pack 3. The RDP 6.1 client is available on Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1/SP2 (x86 and x64 editions) and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition through KB952155. In addition to changes related to how

1909-555: Is available on Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista SP1/SP2 through KB969084, and is not officially supported on Windows Server 2003 x86 and Windows Server 2003 / Windows XP Professional x64 editions. It is also not officially supported on Windows Server 2008. Most RDP 7.0 features like Aero glass remote use, bidirectional audio, Windows Media Player redirection, multiple monitor support and Remote Desktop Easy Print are only available in Windows 7 Enterprise or Ultimate editions. Release 7.1 of RDP

1992-706: Is available on Windows, macOS , iOS , iPadOS , Android , ChromeOS , and through web browsers. The preview version of the app was first released in November 2023 and it was fully launched on September 19, 2024. The app was developed as a unified way to access Windows PCs remotely and as replacement for Microsoft Remote Desktop . The app supports many of the features of Remote Desktop Connection include multi-monitor support, device redirection, and dynamic resolution. A RDS client also existed for Windows Mobile called Remote Desktop . There have been numerous non-Microsoft implementations of clients that implement subsets of

2075-586: Is compatible with all RDP clients, such as that provided with Windows but, unlike the original RDP, can be configured to accept unencrypted and password unprotected connections, which may be useful in secure and trusted networks, such as home or office LANs . By default, Microsoft's RDP server refuses connections to user accounts with empty passwords (but this can be changed with the Group Policy Editor). External and guest authorization options are provided by VRDP as well. It does not matter which operating system

2158-408: Is designed for infrastructures demanding high security and reliability. Windows Server 2003 is available for IA-32, Itanium, and x64 processors. It supports a maximum of 32 physical processors on IA-32 platform or 64 physical processors on x64 and IA-64 hardware. IA-32 variants of this edition support up to 64 GB of RAM. With Service Pack 2 installed, the x64 variants support up to 1 TB while

2241-660: Is designed to be used primarily as an IIS web server and provides a platform for developing and deploying XML Web services and applications that use ASP.NET technology. Domain controller and Terminal Services functionality are not included on Web Edition. However, Remote Desktop for Administration is available. Only 10 concurrent file-sharing connections are allowed at any moment. It is not possible to install Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange software in this edition without installing Service Pack 1 . Despite supporting XML Web services and ASP.NET, UDDI cannot be deployed on Windows Server 2003 Web . The .NET Framework version 2.0

2324-675: Is determined by that of the operating system or by the last applied Windows Service Pack. The Terminal Services server is supported as an official feature on Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition , released in 1998, Windows 2000 Server , all editions of Windows XP except Windows XP Home Edition, Windows Server 2003 , Windows Home Server , on Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs , in Windows Vista Ultimate, Enterprise and Business editions, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 and on Windows 7 Professional and above. The home versions of Windows do not support RDP. Microsoft provides

2407-537: Is different and costs slightly more than CALs for the other editions of Windows Server 2003. However, the SBS CAL encompasses the user CALs for Windows Server, Exchange Server, SQL Server and ISA Server, and hence is less expensive than buying all other CALs individually. SBS has the following design limitations, mainly affecting Active Directory: To remove the limitations from an instance of SBS and upgrade to regular Windows Server, Exchange Server, SQL and ISA Server, there

2490-465: Is displayed in the RDP client connection bar for RDP 8.0 connections; clicking on it provides further information about connection, including whether UDP is in use or not. The RDP 8.0 client and server components are available on Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 through KB2592687. The RDP 8.0 client is also available for Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, but the server components are not. The RDC 8.0 client includes support for session encryption using

2573-422: Is in turn used by Microsoft to provide graphics support (WSLg) in its Windows Subsystem for Linux . Remmina is a free and open-source remote desktop client for POSIX -based system that supports RDP along with a verity of other protocols. It uses FreeRDP as a foundation. It is the default remote desktop client on Ubuntu . Windows Server 2003 Windows Server 2003 , codenamed "Whistler Server",

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2656-480: Is included in some versions of WSS as configured by OEMs. Windows Storage Server 2003 can be promoted to function as a domain controller; however, this edition is not licensed to run directory services. It can be joined to an existing domain as a member server. Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 was available in the following editions: Windows Unified Data Storage Server is a variant of Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 with iSCSI target support standard, available in only

2739-558: Is installed as a guest because VRDP is implemented on the virtual machine (host) level, not in the guest system. The proprietary VirtualBox Extension Pack is required. Microsoft requires third-party implementations to license the relevant RDP patents. As of February 2014, the extent to which open-source clients meet this requirement remains unknown. Security researchers reported in 2016-17 that cybercriminals were selling compromised RDP servers on underground forums as well as specialized illicit RDP shops. These compromised RDPs may be used as

2822-475: Is not included with Windows Server 2003 Web, but can be installed as a separate update from Windows Update. Windows Server 2003 Web supports a maximum of two physical processors and a maximum of 2 GB of RAM. It is the only edition of Windows Server 2003 that does not require any client access license (CAL) when used as the internet facing server front-end for Internet Information Services and Windows Server Update Services . When using it for storage or as

2905-562: Is one of the components of Microsoft Windows that allow a user to initiate and control an interactive session The web client uses the TLS secured port 443 and does not use the RD Gateway to transport traffic, instead relying solely on the remote desktop session host aspect of remote desktop services. The Remote Desktop client for Windows ( MSRDC ), branded as Microsoft Remote Desktop , Remote Desktop , and Azure Virtual Desktop if installed from

2988-462: Is still recommended for use. RDC 6.0 was released as part of Windows Vista. With RDC 6.0, the resolution of a remote session can be set independently of the settings at the remote computer. If the Desktop Experience component is plugged into the remote server, remote application user interface elements (e.g., application windows borders, Maximize, Minimize, and Close buttons etc.) will take on

3071-456: Is the first server edition of Windows to support the IA64 and x64 architectures. The product went through several name changes during the course of development. When first announced in 2000, it was known by its codename "Whistler Server"; it was named "Windows 2002 Server" for a brief time in mid-2001, followed by "Windows .NET Server" and "Windows .NET Server 2003". After Microsoft chose to focus

3154-457: Is the last date that OEM's may distribute systems using this version. All variants continued to receive Critical security updates until the end of extended support: Release 2 for Embedded Systems was available in 32 and 64 bit variants, Standard (1-4 CPU) and Enterprise (1-8 CPU): Windows XP Professional x64 Edition was released less than a month after Windows Server 2003 SP1, and used the same kernel and source code tree. While many features of

3237-572: Is the sixth version of the Windows Server operating system produced by Microsoft . It is part of the Windows NT family of operating systems and was released to manufacturing on March 28, 2003 and generally available on April 24, 2003. Windows Server 2003 is the successor to the Server editions of Windows 2000 and the predecessor to Windows Server 2008 . An updated version, Windows Server 2003 R2,

3320-453: The ITU-T T.128 application sharing protocol (during draft also known as "T.share") from the T.120 recommendation series, the first version of RDP (named version 4.0) was introduced by Microsoft with "Terminal Services", as a part of their product Windows NT 4.0 Server, Terminal Server Edition. The Terminal Services Edition of NT 4.0 relied on Citrix 's MultiWin technology, previously provided as

3403-557: The Internet . Finally, few shortcuts that will be handy Microsoft Remote Desktop , also called Remote Desktop , is a modern client for RDS released in September 2012. Compared to the older Remote Desktop Connection, the program offers a touch-friendly interface. It allows users to connect to remote PCs, RemoteApp programs, session-based desktops, and virtual desktops. The program is available on Windows as an Universal Windows Platform on

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3486-661: The Microsoft Store , MacOS as Microsoft Remote Desktop for Mac , Android , iOS , iPadOS , and on all platforms as a web client. The Windows version of the app is no longer being updated with new features or support for Azure Virtual Desktop . Instead, users are recommend to use the Remote Desktop client for Windows . In late 2018 Microsoft released an HTML5 web client for Microsoft Remote Desktop. The client allows users to connect to their remote apps or to their remote desktops without using an installed remote desktop client.

3569-572: The TLS 1.2 standard. The add-on requires the DTLS protocol to be installed as prerequisite. After installing the updates, for the RDP 8.0 protocol to be enabled between Windows 7 machines, an extra configuration step is needed using the Group Policy editor. A new feature in RDP 8.0 is limited support for RDP session nesting; it only works for Windows 8 and Server 2012 though, Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 (even with

3652-441: The attack surface of new machines. Windows Server 2003 includes compatibility modes to allow older applications to run with greater stability. It was made more compatible with Windows NT 4.0 domain-based networking. Windows Server 2003 brought in enhanced Active Directory compatibility and better deployment support to ease the transition from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional. Windows Server 2003

3735-461: The ".NET" branding on the .NET Framework , the OS was finally released as "Windows Server 2003". Windows Server 2003's codebase was reused for the development of Windows Vista under its codename, "Longhorn". Pre-reset builds of "Longhorn" were based on the Windows .NET Server Release Candidate 1 (3663) codebase, whereas post-reset builds of "Longhorn/Vista" after the development reset in 2004 are based on

3818-469: The 32-bit variant of Windows XP were brought over into Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, other limitations imposed by constraints such as only supporting 64-bit drivers, and support for 16-bit programs being dropped led to incompatibilities with the 32-bit Windows XP editions available. It later received a Service Pack update as part of the release of Windows Server 2003 SP2. On March 30, 2005, Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003. Among

3901-527: The IA-64 variants support up to 2 TB of RAM. Windows Server 2003 Datacenter also allows limiting processor and memory usage on a per-application basis. This edition has better support for storage area networks (SANs): It features a service which uses Windows sockets to emulate TCP/IP communication over native SAN service providers, thereby allowing a SAN to be accessed over any TCP/IP channel. With this, any application that can communicate over TCP/IP can use

3984-541: The Microsoft Store, is a client that uses the Remote Desktop Protocol to allow users to connect to Azure Virtual Desktops on feeds made available by enterprise administrators. The program can be downloaded as an MSI installer as Remote Desktop or from the Microsoft Store as Azure Virtual Desktop. In contrast with Microsoft Remote Desktop and like the older Remote Desktop Connection program, MSRDC allows for

4067-531: The Microsoft functionality for a range of platforms. rdesktop is a free and open-source implementation of a client software for RDP. rdesktop supports most features of RDP 5, with features from RDP 5.1 and 6 not yet implemented. Unlike its Microsoft counterparts, it still supports the older RDP 4 protocol used by Windows NT 4.0 . There also several graphical frontends to rdesktop including tsclient , Gnome-RDP, and KDE Remote Desktop Connection (KRDC) . FreeRDP

4150-666: The Microsoft-created Remote Desktop Services , open-source RDP servers on Unix include FreeRDP (see above), ogon project and xrdp . The Windows Remote Desktop Connection client can be used to connect to such a server. There is also Azure Virtual Desktop which makes use of RDP and is a part of the Microsoft Azure platform. There is also a VirtualBox Remote Display Protocol (VRDP) used in the VirtualBox virtual machine implementation by Oracle . This protocol

4233-459: The RDP 8.0 client, is available on Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 through KB2923545 but unlike the RDP 8.0 update for Windows 7, it does not add a RDP 8.1 server component to Windows 7. Furthermore, if RDP 8.0 server function is desired on Windows 7, the KB 2592687 (RDP 8.0 client and server components) update must be installed before installing the RDP 8.1 update. Support for session shadowing

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4316-406: The RDP 8.0 update) do not support this feature. The "shadow" feature from RDP 7, which allowed an administrator to monitor (snoop) on a RDP connection has been removed in RDP 8. The Aero Glass remoting feature (applicable to Windows 7 machines connecting to each other) has also been removed in RDP 8. This version was released with Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 . The RDP 8.1 client, like

4399-408: The RDP in its default configuration is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack . Administrators can enable transport layer encryption to mitigate this risk. RDP sessions are also susceptible to in-memory credential harvesting, which can be used to launch pass the hash attacks. In March 2012, Microsoft released an update for a critical security vulnerability in the RDP. The vulnerability allowed

4482-486: The RDP was introduced with Windows 10 and includes the following new features: AutoSize zoom (useful for HiDPI clients). In addition graphics compression improvements were included utilizing H.264/AVC. Microsoft introduced the following features with the release of RDP 6.0 in 2006: Release 7.1 of RDP in 2010 introduced the following feature: The latest version of RDP supports Transport Layer Security (TLS) version 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 to protect RDP traffic. Version 5.2 of

4565-457: The Windows 2000 Terminal Server Disk Creation Tool is tested and working on even 16 bit Windows 3.1 using 3rd party TCP/IP libraries such as Trumpet WinSock. This version was introduced with Windows XP Professional and included support for 24-bit color and sound. It is supported on Windows 2000 , Windows 9x , and Windows NT 4.0 . With this version, the name of the client was changed from Terminal Services Client to Remote Desktop Connection ;

4648-399: The ability to deactivate classes from the schema , or to run multiple instances of the directory server (ADAM). There was also a notable change in the ability to create a rescue disk , which was removed in favor of Automated System Recovery (ASR). Other Improvements to Group Policy handling and administration have also been made. For the first time in the history of Windows Server,

4731-399: The ability to share files and printers, act as an application server, host message queues, provide email services, authenticate users, act as an X.509 certificate server, provide LDAP directory services, serve streaming media, and to perform other server-oriented functions. Windows Server 2003 Web is meant for building and hosting Web applications, Web pages, and XML web services . It

4814-488: The applications can be viewed this way, not any media. RDC prioritizes UI data as well as keyboard and mouse inputs, as opposed to print jobs or file transfers. so as to make the applications more responsive. It redirects plug and play devices such as cameras, portable music players, and scanners, so that input from these devices can be used by the remote applications as well. RDC can also be used to connect to computers which are exposed via Windows Home Server RDP Gateway over

4897-402: The client required for connecting to newer RDP versions for downlevel operating systems. Since the server improvements are not available downlevel, the features introduced with each newer RDP version only work on downlevel operating systems when connecting to a higher version RDP server from these older operating systems, and not when using the RDP server in the older operating system. Based on

4980-731: The client's end. However, to start a remote administration session, one must be a member of the Administrators group on the server to which one is trying to get connected. This version was released to manufacturing in July 2009 and is included with Windows Server 2008 R2, as well as with Windows 7 . With this release, also changed from Terminal Services to Remote Desktop Services . This version has new functions such as Windows Media Player redirection, bidirectional audio, multi-monitor support, Aero glass support, enhanced bitmap acceleration, Easy Print redirection, Language Bar docking. The RDP 7.0 client

5063-526: The computing cluster. MS MPI was designed to be compatible with the reference open source MPI2 specification which is widely used in High-performance computing (HPC). With some exceptions because of security considerations, MS MPI covers the complete set of MPI2 functionality as implemented in MPICH2, except for the planned future features of dynamic process spawn and publishing. Windows Storage Server 2003,

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5146-753: The duplicate files to the common SIS store. The file on the volume is replaced with a link to the file. This substitution reduces the amount of storage space required, by as much as 70%. Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 provides an index-based, full-text search based on the indexing engine already built into Windows server. The updated search engine speeds up indexed searches on network shares. This edition also provides filters for searching many standard file formats, such as ZIP archives , AutoCAD models , XML documents , MP3 audio files , PDF documents , and all Microsoft Office file formats. Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 includes built in support for Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, and adds

5229-531: The heritage remains to this day, however, as the underlying executable is still named mstsc.exe . This version was introduced with Windows Server 2003 , included support for console mode connections, a session directory, and local resource mapping. It also introduces Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 for server authentication, and to encrypt terminal server communications. This version is built into Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and Windows Server 2003 x64 & x86 Editions, and also available for Windows XP as

5312-560: The improvements are many of the same updates that were provided to Windows XP users with Service Pack 2. Features that are added with Service Pack 1 include: A full list of updates is available in the Microsoft Knowledge Base. Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003 was released on March 13, 2007. The release date was originally scheduled for the first half of 2006. On June 13, 2006, Microsoft made an initial test version of Service Pack 2 available to Microsoft Connect users, with

5395-719: The redirection of local USB and serial devices. MSRDC is also used by Windows Subsystem for Linux to display programs with a graphical user interface . The Windows App is a Remote Desktop Protocol client that allows users to connect to Windows 365 , Azure Virtual Desktop , and Microsoft Dev Box instances. Additionally, on non-Windows platforms excluding the browser, the Windows App allows users to connect to serves running Remote Desktop Services and remote PCs. On Windows, Microsoft advises users to use Remote Desktop Connection to connect to remote PCs and Remote Desktop client for Windows to connect to Remote Desktop Services. The app

5478-436: The release of Remote Desktop Connection , there have been several additional Remote Desktop Protocol clients created by both Microsoft and other parties. Remote Desktop Connection ( RDC , also called Remote Desktop or just RD ) is the client application for RDS. The program has the filename mstsc.exe and in Windows 2000 and prior, it was known as Microsoft Terminal Services Client ( MSTSC or tsclient ). It allows

5561-594: The remaining 88% being found by human computer programmers . Microsoft employs more than 4,700 programmers who work on Windows, 60% of whom are software testers whose job is to find bugs in Windows source code . Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates stated that Windows Server 2003 was Microsoft's "most rigorously tested software to date." Several improvements and new features have been added to Windows Server 2003. Internet Information Services (IIS) has been upgraded to v6.0. There have also been significant improvements to Message Queuing and to Active Directory , such as

5644-429: The resources of the local computer. Audio is also redirected, so that any sounds generated by a remote application are played back at the client system. Moreover, a remote session can also span multiple monitors at the client system, independent of the multi-monitor settings at the server. RDC can also be used to connect to Windows Media Center (WMC) remote sessions; however, since WMC does not stream video using RDP, only

5727-508: The same appearance of local applications. In this scenario, the remote applications will use the Aero theme if the user connects to the server from a Windows Vista machine running Aero. Later versions of the protocol also support rendering the UI in full 32-bit color, as well as resource redirection for printers, COM ports, disk drives, mice and keyboards. With resource redirection, remote applications can use

5810-537: The server listens on TCP port 3389 and UDP port 3389. Microsoft currently refers to their official RDP client software as Remote Desktop Connection , formerly "Terminal Services Client". The protocol is an extension of the ITU-T T.128 application sharing protocol. Microsoft makes some specifications public on their website. Every server and professional version of Microsoft Windows from Windows XP onward includes an installed Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) ("Terminal Services") client ( mstsc.exe ) whose version

5893-604: The standard and enterprise editions. Windows Small Business Server (SBS) is a software suite which includes Windows Server and additional technologies aimed at providing a small business with a complete technology solution. The Standard edition of SBS includes Microsoft Remote Web Workplace , Windows SharePoint Services , Microsoft Exchange Server , Fax Server, Active Directory , a basic firewall , DHCP server and network address translation capabilities. The Premium edition of SBS adds Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft ISA Server 2004. SBS has its own type of CAL that

5976-497: The storage capacity is available to all users. Windows Storage Server 2003 can use RAID arrays to provide data redundancy , fault-tolerance and high performance. Multiple such NAS servers can be clustered to appear as a single device, which allows responsibility for serving clients to be shared in such a way that if one server fails then other servers can take over (often termed a failover ) which also improves fault-tolerance. Windows Storage Server 2003 can also be used to create

6059-749: The work. Compute Cluster Server has a built-in Message Passing Interface , the Microsoft Messaging Passing Interface v2 (MS-MPI) which is used to communicate between the processing nodes on the cluster network. Alternative MPI Stacks can also be used with the OS. It ties nodes together with a powerful inter-process communication mechanism which can be complex because of communications between hundreds or even thousands of processors working in parallel. The application programming interface consists of over 160 functions. A job launcher enables users to execute jobs to be executed in

6142-491: The works-in-progress Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (3790.1232) codebase. Windows Server 2003 was the first Microsoft Windows version which was thoroughly subjected to semi-automated testing for bugs with a software system called PREfast developed by computer scientist Amitabh Srivastava at Microsoft Research . The automated bug checking system was first tested on Windows 2000 but not thoroughly. Amitabh Srivastava's PREfast found 12% of Windows Server 2003's bugs,

6225-429: The x64 and Itanium architectures. With Service Pack 2 installed, the x64 and Itanium variants are capable of addressing up to 1 TB and 2 TB of RAM, respectively. This edition also supports Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA). It also provides the ability to hot-add supported hardware. Windows Server 2003 Enterprise is also the required edition to issue custom certificate templates. Windows Server 2003 Datacenter

6308-511: The x64 variant is capable of addressing up to 32 GB of RAM and also supports Non-Uniform Memory Access . Windows Server 2003 Enterprise is aimed towards medium to large businesses. It is a full-function server operating system that supports up to 8 physical processors and provides enterprise-class features such as eight-node clustering using Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) software and support for up to 64 GB of RAM through PAE . Enterprise Edition also comes in specialized variants for

6391-468: Was added back in RDP version 8.1. This version also fixes some visual glitches with Microsoft Office 2013 when running as a RemoteApp . Version 8.1 of the RDP also enables a "restricted admin" mode. Logging into this mode only requires knowledge of the hashed password, rather than of its plaintext , therefore making a pass the hash attack possible. Microsoft has released an 82-page document explaining how to mitigate this type of attack. Version 10.0 of

6474-453: Was for building firewall, VPN caching servers and similar appliances. Variants were available with "Server Appliance Software" and with "Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server" Availability of the original version ended May 28, 2003. Availability of R2 ended March 5, 2006. End of extended support was July 14, 2015 (all variants except Storage Server ), and End of Licence was May 28, 2018 (R2 and original). The End of Licence date

6557-598: Was included with Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 in 2010. It introduced RemoteFX , which provides virtualized GPU support and host-side encoding. This version was released in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 . This version has new functions such as Adaptive Graphics (progressive rendering and related techniques), automatic selection of TCP or UDP as transport protocol, multi touch support, DirectX 11 support for vGPU, USB redirection supported independently of vGPU support, etc. A "connection quality" button

6640-494: Was likely, and could cause widespread harm based on the number of systems that appeared to have remained exposed and unpatched. In July 2019, Microsoft issued a security patch for CVE - 2019-0887 , a RDP vulnerability that affects Hyper-V . Since the release of Remote Desktop Connection , there have been several additional Remote Desktop Protocol clients created by both Microsoft and other parties including Microsoft Remote Desktop , rdesktop , and FreeRDP . In addition to

6723-430: Was previously available as an out-of-band update for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1. Windows Server 2003 R2 is an updated release of Windows Server 2003. It was released to manufacturing on December 6, 2005 for IA-32 and x64 platforms, but not for IA-64 . It was succeeded by Windows Server 2008 . New features of Windows Server 2003 R2 include: Windows Server 2003 R2 was distributed in two CDs , one containing

6806-490: Was released to manufacturing on December 6, 2005. Windows Server 2003 is based on Windows XP . Windows Server 2003's kernel has also been used in Windows XP 64-bit Edition and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition , and was the starting point for the development of Windows Vista . Windows Server 2003 is the final version of Windows Server that supports processors without ACPI . Its successor, Windows Server 2008 , requires

6889-519: Was started in 2019. A multi-platform client based on FreeRDP including Vulkan/H.264 support followed in summer 2020. There's a GTK-based client named Remmina also based on FreeRDP. FreeRDP offers server implementations for macOS and Windows. On other systems including Linux, software packages may build upon FreeRDP to implement a complete server. Weston, the compositor in Wayland , uses FreeRDP to implement an rdp server it terms "rdp-backend". This server

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