Step 02: Installing and Configuring Terminal Server

Terminal Services (recently renamed Remote Desktop Services) is not required but is useful for connecting to your Windows server remotely from any machine in the network. Here is how it is done:

• Insert Windows installation disc into your CD/DVD drive, which will prompt this screen:
  
• Click on Install optional Windows components.
• On the next screen, check the boxes for Terminal Server and Terminal Server Licensing, then click Next:
  
• The next screen displays the following warning and licensing disclosure statement; click Next to proceed:
  
• The next screen offers options for selecting full or relaxed security default permissions for application compatibility. It’s your call, but we strongly recommend accepting the Full Security option as the default. Click Next to accept the option:
  
• On the next screen you Use these license servers option to select the license server name or IP address, or you can select Use automatically discovered license servers. We prefer to use the name of the our designated server which in this case is “GSA”. Select Next to proceed:
  
• At this point you have to select either the Per Device or the Per User licensing mode, depending on how you want to deploy your Terminal license server. Once you have made your selection, click Next:
  
• Next you specify the availability of your license server, either for the entire enterprise or for your local domain or workgroup, and specify where your license database will be located. Unless you want to change the location, in most cases the defaults are just fine:
  
• Once you select your licensing setup and click on Next, Windows will then setup and configure the components…
  
• … and once the component configuration process is complete, Windows will display something like this dialog box:
  
• Click Finish and you are done with this step.

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