

The Terminal Services server is supported as an official feature on Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition, released in 1998, Windows 2000 Server, all editions of Windows XP except Windows XP Home Edition, Windows Server 2003, Windows Home Server, on Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs, in Windows Vista Ultimate, Enterprise and Business editions, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 and on Windows 7 Professional and above. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Įvery version of Microsoft Windows from Windows XP onward includes an installed Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) ("Terminal Services") client ( mstsc.exe) whose version is determined by that of the operating system or by the last applied Windows Service Pack. Please help improve it by rewriting it in an encyclopedic style. This article may not properly summarize its corresponding main article. Microsoft makes some specifications public on their website. The protocol is an extension of the ITU-T T.128 application sharing protocol. Microsoft currently refers to their official RDP client software as Remote Desktop Connection, formerly "Terminal Services Client". By default, the server listens on TCP port 3389 and UDP port 3389. RDP servers are built into Windows operating systems an RDP server for Unix and OS X also exists (which one? Citation please). The user employs RDP client software for this purpose, while the other computer must run RDP server software.Ĭlients exist for most versions of Microsoft Windows (including Windows Mobile), Linux, Unix, macOS, iOS, Android, and other operating systems.



Remote Desktop Protocol ( RDP) is a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft which provides a user with a graphical interface to connect to another computer over a network connection. Proprietary protocol that can provide a user with the graphical interface from another remote computer
