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Remote Desktop Services 2012 allows you to publish two types of Session collection on a Remote Desktop Session Host. This can be either a Remote Desktop Session Collection or a Remote App Session Collection. By default you cannot have both types on the Same Session Host. In this post I...

When a user logs on to a Remote Desktop Services–enabled computer, a session is started for the user. Each session is identified by a unique session ID. Because each logon to a Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) client receives a separate session ID, the user-experience is similar to being logged on...

It is possible to move a Plex Media Server installation from one computer/pc/system to another in most cases. It won't necessarily be possible in all instances. For this article, we'll refer to the old and new Plex Media Servers as the "Source" and "Destination" installations. These instructions are designed for...

Windows 7 offers a variety of remote access tools, many of which are designed around the notion of remote assistance, where one user can remotely connect to a second user's PC across a home network or the Internet in order to troubleshoot and fix problems. Remote Assistance is available in...

To remotely control my Windows machines, I always prefer to use RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) as it performs much nicer than VNC (Virtual Network Computing). VNC has this streak of “JPEG” quality and slow behavior, whereas RDP is fast and crystal clear. RDP is however a proprietary protocol from Microsoft....

What is VPN? A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a way of using a secure network tunnel to carry all traffic between between different locations on the internet – for example between your local office workstations and servers in your ElasticHosts account, or from your office workstations to your ElasticHosts...