RDS was first released in 1998 as Terminal Server in Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition, a stand-alone edition of Windows NT 4.0 Server that allowed users to log in remotely. Remote Desktop Services ( RDS), known as Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008 and earlier, is one of the components of Microsoft Windows that allow a user to initiate and control an interactive session on a remote computer or virtual machine over a network connection.

com /en-us /windows /win32 /termserv /terminal-services-portal ( Discuss) Proposed since March 2023.ĭocs. It has been suggested that Network Level Authentication be merged into this article.