In the article the Enterprise Platforms Windows Server Performance Team discusses all the additions that were made to Windows Server 2008 Terminal Server in the area of management tools. One key point that has improved is of course, the Terminal Services manager with Session Broker support. This now allows for easier grouping of servers and easier user (session) management, Still not brilliant though.  Nothing shocking has happened to the management area of Windows Server 2008. The only thing is that the Windows Server 2008 WMI provider has been enhanced and some commmandline tools have been removed, with the most surprising one being Tshutdn.exe. This has been replaced by shutdown.exe (or rather shutdown.exe is the only one that is left). Be sure to update those maintenance scripts now ...

This article brings me on the subject of something that I predict will become very popular in the Windows Server 2008. Creating management tools  add-ons or additional management tools for Windows Server 2008 Terminal Server's is because of the obvious lack of real improvement in management tools in for existing Terminal Server features and the very basic functionality of the management tools of the new Terminal Services features (RemoteApp and such). It's almost like Microsoft intentionally only created very basic tools that are not fit for enterprises... ;-)

Which will tool will be the first one? I know, the first one that sends me a Terminal Server 2008 tool, gets a free lifetime subscription to the Thincomputing.net newsletter! ( just pretend that you did not know that was already free... ) 

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