Terminal Services Session Broker (TS Session Broker) is a role service in the Windows Server® 2008 operating system that enables you to load balance sessions between terminal servers in a farm, and allows a user to reconnect to an existing session in a load-balanced terminal server farm. TS Session Broker stores session state information that includes session IDs, their associated user names, and the name of the server where each session resides. This step-by-step guide describes how to configure the new TS Session Broker Load Balancing feature.

This step-by-step walks you through the process of setting up a working Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) infrastructure in a test environment. During this process you create an Active Directory® domain, install a database server, install the AD RMS server role, configure the AD RMS cluster, and configure the AD RMS-enabled client computer. Once complete, you can use the test lab environment to learn about AD RMS technology on Windows Server® 2008 and assess how it might be deployed in your organization.

Windows Server® 2008 Terminal Services Gateway (TS Gateway) is a role service that enables authorized remote users to connect to resources on an internal corporate or private network, from any Internet-connected device that can run the Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) client. The network resources can be terminal servers, terminal servers running RemoteApp™ programs, or computers with Remote Desktop enabled. TS Gateway encapsulates Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) within RPC, within HTTP over a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection. In this way, TS Gateway helps improve security by establishing an encrypted connection between remote users on the Internet and the internal network resources on which their productivity applications run. The procedures in this guide will help you set up a TS Gateway server, enabling remote users to access terminal servers, terminal servers running RemoteApp programs, or computers with Remote Desktop enabled on your internal corporate or private network.

Domain Name System (DNS) is a system for naming computers and network services that maps those names to network addresses and organizes them into a hierarchy of domains. DNS naming is used on TCP/IP networks, such as the Internet and most corporate networks, to locate computers and services by using user-friendly names. When a user enters the DNS name of a computer in an application, DNS can look up the name and provide other information that is associated with the computer, such as its IP address or services that it provides for the network. This process is called name resolution.

The Network Policy Server (NPS) Operations Guide provides administration information about NPS in the Windows Server® 2008 operating system.

A foundation network is a collection of network hardware, devices, and software that provides the core services for your organization's information technology (IT) needs. A Windows Server foundation network provides you with many benefits, including the following.