Difference between TS, RD, NM and compare to PCAnywhere

[BCinSC]

What are the differences between Terminal Services, Remote Desktop, and NetMeeting and how do they compare to PCAnywhere for controlling a remote PC?

 

[WarmAndSCSI]

Terminal Services is found in Windows NT/2k/2k3 Servers - usually the best solution since it is highly configurable and does heavy encryption. Remote Desktop is integrated with Netmeeting in Win9x systems and is a very poor solution for a remote management system since it's extrememly flakey and unsecure. Remote Desktop in Windows XP is basically a watered-down port of Terminal Services of Windows Server definitely better than the NetMeeting version of "Remote Desktop". PCAnywhere shouldn't be used since it costs $$$ and probably doesn't work as seamlesssly as Remote Desktop in XP or Terminal Services.