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Terminal Services is a component of Microsoft Windows operating systems (both client and server versions) that allows a user to access applications or data stored on a remote computer over a network connection. Terminal Services is Microsoft's take on server centric computing which allows individual users to acces network resources easily.

Remote desktop is working with the help of Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a multi-channel protocol that allows a user to connect to a computer running Microsoft Terminal Services. The server listens by default on TCP port 3389.

K.Shridhar

HCL COMNET

Terminal service is client server environment where one computer acting as a terminal server which will serve the requests from the TS clients. This can be two modes one is Application Server mode the other is Remote Administration mode. The former is used to access the applications on the server which requires licence and the later is used to remote administration which does not require licence.

Remote Desktop sharing is similar to Terminal service's Remote Administration mode.But the diffrence is there is no client and server environment. This is simply used to share one another's desktop in the network