Overview

Tricasol provides a graphical login to remote machines using RDP (Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol). Tricasol accepts connections from variety of RDP clients: FreeRDP, rdesktop, NeutrinoRDP and Microsoft Remote Desktop Client (for Windows, macOS, iOS and Android).

As Windows-to-Windows Remote Desktop can, Tricasol supports not only graphics remoting but also

• two-way clipboard transfer (text, bitmap, file)
• audio redirection
• drive redirection (mount local client drives on remote machine)

RDP transport is encrypted using TLS by default.

What is Remote Desktop Services (RDS) ?

Remote Desktop Services (RDS) is an umbrella term for features of Microsoft Windows Server that allow users to remotely access graphical desktops and Windows applications.Users can access desktops and applications — also known as Microsoft RemoteApp — from various types of client applications and devices, including non-Windows devices, via Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).

Remote Desktop Services evolution

Competing products such as Citrix Virtual Apps and VMware Horizon Apps use the RDSH server role. Other products can provide their own brokers, display protocols, clients and management infrastructure.

Remote Desktop Services supports virtualized graphics processing units (GPUs), to enable graphically intensive applications.

IT can install Remote Desktop Services on premises, in public clouds on top of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) or in hybrid deployments.

Remote Desktop Services on Windows Server 2019

Remote Desktop Services is available in Windows Server 2019, however some features are restricted. Windows Server Desktop Experience and RDSH do not include newer features such as Microsoft Cortana, the Microsoft Store and the Xbox app and services. In addition, RDSH 2019 will not support Office 365 Pro Plus and instead will only use Office 2019 perpetual.