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FEATURES

  • 32-bit color support. 8-, 15-, 16-, and 24-bit color are also supported..

  • 128-bit encryption, using the RC4 encryption algorithm (this is the default security; older clients may use encryption of lesser strength). But because of the Man-in-the-middle Vulnerability in the protocol and Microsoft's implementation, in many circumstances the traffic can be decrypted along the way.http://www.securiteam.com/windowsntfocus/5EP010KG0G.html

  • Transport Layer Security support.

  • Audio allows users to run an audio program on the remote desktop and have the sound redirected to their local computer.

  • File System Redirection allows users to use their local files on a remote desktop within the terminal session.

  • Printer Redirection allows users to use their local printer within the terminal session as they would with a locally or network shared printer.

  • Port Redirection allows applications running within the terminal session to access local serial and parallel ports directly.

  • The clipboard can be shared between the remote computer and the local computer.


The following features were introduced with the release of RDP 6.0 in 2006:
  • Remote Programs: Application publishing with client-side file type associations.

  • Seamless Windows: Remote applications can run on a client machine that is served by a Remote Desktop connection.

  • Terminal Server Gateway: Enables the ability to use a front-end IIS server to accept connections (over Port 443 ) for back-end Terminal Services servers via an Https connection, similar to how RPC over https allows Outlook clients to connect to a back-end Exchange 2003 server. Requires Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn)

  • Support for remoting the Aero Glass Theme (or Composed Desktop), including ClearType font smoothing technology.

  • Support for remoting of support will be able to display full Windows Presentation Foundation effects on a local machine.

  • Rewrite of device redirection to be more general-purpose, allowing a greater variety of devices to be accessed.

  • All of Terminal Services will be fully configurable and scriptable via WMI .

  • Improved bandwidth tuning for RDP clients.

  • Support for remote desktop sizes greater than 1600x1200.

  • Support for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 on both server and client ends (set as default).

  • Multiple monitor support. Spread session across two monitors.



SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS

The RDP service is supported as an official feature on Windows Server 2003 , Windows XP Professional , Windows XP Media Center and Tablet PC Editions, and in Windows Vista Ultimate, Enterprise and Business editions. By default, all Windows XP and Vista editions include the Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) client application pre-installed, with RDC client version determined by the version of Windows release. It is available for free download for Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000 , Windows 9x , Windows NT 4.0 , Mac OS X , and most Linux distributions.

Work has started on an open source implementation of the RDP server available for and Unix using non-RDP protocols such as VNC , NX and the X Window System . These are however not compatible with the Windows RDP client.


VERSION HISTORY

Based on the . most notably being able to remotely access a single application instead of the entire desktop, and support for 32-bit color.


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