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Volume 12, Issue 2 | January 27, 2010

 

 

 

 

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Remote Desktop Services (RDS) Architecture Explained
IT Pro Evangelist Yung Chou explains the functions of the five key RDS architectural components and how they complement one another to process an RDS request.




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Editor's Note

TechNet Flash Editor
Mitch Irsfeld

Windows 7 Deployment A to Z

If Windows 7 deployment is on your organization's horizon, here's a great new article that explores pre-deployment considerations, and then delves into options and recommendations for user data and settings migration when moving from Windows XP to Windows 7. This is for enterprise-scale desktop deployments, migrating hundreds or thousands of computers.

You can also find more resources in this blog...

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