Secure Global Desktop Terminal Services Edition

The Terminal Services Edition

New Version Secure Global Desktop Terminal Services Edition Version 4 is the ultimate companion to Windows® Terminal Services. It is an indispensable solution that provides a powerful set of application management and secure access capabilities for Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server environments.

Unlike other solutions, Terminal Services Edition leverages the Microsoft® RDP protocol as a standard building block, adding an intelligent management layer and protecting customers’ long-term investments in the Microsoft platform. By design it is easy to install, easy to administer and easy to use. Terminal Services Edition publishes server-based Windows applications and the Windows desktop through a single, unified and portable browser interface—the Secure Global Desktop—to let you

Ensure privacy, security and policy-based access to sensitive corporate data
Manage workload across servers to assure high application availability
Reduce capital investment significantly with a service-based purchasing model

Terminal Services Edition Specifications

How It Works

Secure Global Desktop Terminal Services Edition is a complete management product for the server-based computing environment. Using the base technologies of Microsoft Windows, Terminal Services Edition provides a full solution that manages end users, application servers and server-hosted Windows applications.

Terminal Services Edition Architecture

The Terminal Services Edition Server Team

A Secure Global Desktop Terminal Services Edition server team is a combination of all the servers that have Terminal Services Edition software installed:

One or more Windows Terminal Servers
One or more Microsoft IIS web servers
One or more Terminal Services Edition load balancers
One or more Relay Servers

Application Publishing

Administrators publish Windows applications to make them available to a user. Terminal Services Edition maintains a list of applications for every user. Applications can be published directly to a user's account or to organizational units (OUs) or groups of users.

Application Launch Pad

The application launch pad is primarily where applications are launched and from where the Secure Global Desktop client is distributed. The first time a user logs on, Terminal Services Edition creates a menu on the Windows Start menu to provide an alternate way to launch applications.

Client Components

Terminal Services Edition uses small but important client-side Windows components to enhance the user's terminal services experience with features such as printing to local printers, accessing client drives and hiding the native Terminal Server desktop. Connections to the TSE server are also possible from certain native RDP and non-Windows clients.

Load Balancing

When an application is launched, the Secure Global Desktop client contacts the Terminal Services Edition load balancer, which identifies the best application server for this request — the load balancer can identify the best server (or if a server has failed) because it continuously rates application server load metrics.

Application Hosting

Terminal Services Edition then launches the application host on the application server instead of launching the application directly — this lies behind many of the special enhancements to the RDP connection that Terminal Services Edition brings.

Session Management

Once the users are connected to a server, Terminal Services Edition will track, and an administrator may monitor, the active sessions using the application host. Administrators can perform session management functions like resetting a session or shadowing a session from a central console.

Reporting

Throughout all processes Terminal Services Edition collects data and composes reports. It creates reports that administrators can view to evaluate application and system usage. Administrators can also download this information to create their own reports.