We briefly defined the desktop virtualization concept in Chapter 1, Introducing Release 2.0. The fundamentals are similar to what we have discussed in entirety throughout the book. Desktop virtualization is abstracting the user desktop environment and associated applications from the underlying physical hardware. Microsoft offers this feature in three flavors—pooled (shared) virtual machines, personal (private) virtual machines, and desktop sessions along with RemoteApp as an option, which allows an application to be run remotely on a RDS host. All of them can be maintained from one single pane of Server Manager as separate collections via the Remote Desktop Management Service (RDMS).

Microsoft Terminal Services and Remote Desktop Services were quite a success. However, the changes in end-user preferences, where workplace was no longer confined within the boundaries of an office cubicle, led to the advent of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Under the RDS umbrella...