Today we’re continuing on with Remote Desktop Services, with a look at Remote Desktop Services Virtualization (or RDS-V, for short). You may also hear RDS-V referred to as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). RDS-V provides remote desktop access to managed desktop environments hosted in Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2. OK, there are way too many technical buzzwords in that last sentence, aren’t there? Simply put, in the same way that RemoteApp makes applications available to users through individual Remote Desktop Services sessions, RDS-V provides access to specific virtual machines (desktops) through a similar mechanism. So, what does it really do?
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