Windows MultiPoint Server 2011

Windows MultiPoint Server is a Windows Server-based operating system using Remote Desktop Services technology to host multiple simultaneous independent computing stations or terminals connected to a single computer.

Windows MultiPoint Server 2011, based on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, was released to manufacturing on 10 March 2011. New features in Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 include:

• The ability to add connect stations and thin clients over the LAN via traditional RDP clients
• Support for RemoteFX capable thin clients.
• A shared management console extensibility with Windows Small Business Server 2011 and Windows Home Server 2011.
• The ability to be backed up by Windows Small Business Server Essentials 2011 (the only server SKU that allows and supports this).
• Features that allow administrators to view and interact with thumbnails of station desktops, including
  • Projecting a single station's desktop to one or all stations^.
  • Locking the keyboard and mouse of station and displaying a message.
  • Remotely opening and/or closing applications.
  • Restricting internet browsing to a specific list of sites or blocking browsing to a specific list of sites.
• Management of multiple WMS servers and stations from within a single administration console.
• Support for running within a virtual machine.
• Distribution through a wider variety of distribution channels for both editions.

There are two editions
1) Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 Standard.
2) Windows MultiPoint Server 2011Premium.

The main difference between Standard and Premium is that, premium has domain join support and 20 client access. But Standard has 10 client access and no domain join support.