Performance issues with the Terminal Server.

The day after the successful contingency plan, one of the terminal server experience a slow in performance and we have to take it offline. A temporay server took over as soon as we noticed the very poor performance.

It is an issue with one of the hardware installed on the server. We are working on the issue and we hope to address these soon.

Terminal Services / Remote Desktop Connection

Terminal Services or Terminal Server Edition (TSE) is a component of Microsoft Windows NT 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 access network resources easily.

Based on the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), Terminal Services was first introduced in Windows NT 4.0 (Terminal Server Edition). The products Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows 2000 Datacenter Server and Windows Server 2003 have introduced several improvements and new features. Microsoft used Terminal Services in Windows XP for the Remote Assistance feature. Windows XP (Professional Edition only) includes a single-user Terminal License using the Remote Desktop feature.

Microsoft provides the client software Remote Desktop Connection (formerly called Terminal Services Client), available for most 32-bit versions of their Windows operating systems and Apple's Mac OS X, that allows a user to connect to a server running Terminal Services. Third-party developers have created client software for other platforms, including the open source rdesktop client for common Unix platforms. Both Terminal Services and Remote Desktop Protocol use Port 3389 by default.

What is Remote Desktop and what is Terminal Services?

To all Forex Users, Terminal Services are the services that run on the server, these are needed by the Remote Desktop Connection that you are using in order for you to connect to the server.

See short description below:

Remote Desktop Connection is your client software that you use to connect to the server. This is available on all Windows Operating Systems, such us Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Media Center Edition.

Terminal Server is the machine where you, users connects. These are the servers that you all know, REMIT and REMIT2. The remittance and cargo programs are installed in these servers

Terminal Services is the server software that manages user connections, printing and other remote connection resources.