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| Software components that provide communications services, operating environments, or programming interfaces for specific applications. |
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| A Remote Desktop Connection feature that enables a client to store screen elements that remain unchanged from one refresh to the next in a cache on the computer. |
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| copy-on-write data sharing |
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| A Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services memory management technique used by the operation system that, when a client attempts to write to a shared application file, creates a copy of that file, allocates it for the exclusive use of that client, and writes the changes to the copy. |
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| A type of virtualization in which a host OS shares access to the computer's processor with the virtual machine manager, with each taking the clock cycles it needs and passing control of the processor back to the other. |
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| A Windows Server 2008 role that implements hypervisor virtualization on the computer. |
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| In virtualization, an abstraction layer that interacts directly with the computer's physical hardware. |
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| Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization |
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| Virtualize application that in such a way that they run on the client, not the server. |
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| Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 |
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| A network management product, designed for large enterprises, that administrators can use to deploy applications. |
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| Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 |
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| A network management product, designed for medium-sized organizations, that administrators can use to deploy applications |
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| Remote Desktop Connection |
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| A program running on a desktop computer that establishes a connection to a terminal server using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and displays a session window containing a desktop or application |
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| Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) |
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| The protocol used to transmit screen information, keystrokes, and mouse movements between the Remote Desktop Connection client and a Remote Desktop or Terminal Services server. |
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| A Terminal Services feature that enables clients to run terminal server applications within individual, resizable windows. |
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| In Terminal Services, a collection of client processes that form an individual user environment running on the server. |
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| In Terminal Services, a unique indentifier that a terminal server assigns to each client session to keep the processes for individual clients separate. |
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| Terminal Services client access licenses (TS CALs) |
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| A document that grants a single client access to a specific software program, in this case, a Terminal Services Server. |
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| A variation on the mainframe computing paradigm, in which clients function only as terminals, and servers do all of the application computing. |
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| A Terminal Service software component that issues client access licenses to Terminal Services clients on a network |
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| A guest OS installed on a virtual machine in a Windows Server 2008 computer using Hyper-V |
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| virtual machine manager (VMM) |
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| A virtualization software component that enables administrators to create and manage virtual machines on a computer. |
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| In virtualization, one of multiple separate operating environments on a single computer, in which you can install a separate copy of an operating system. |
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| The process of deploying and maintaining multiple instances of an operating system on a single computer. |
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