A terminal can reside in an office, kiosk, classroom, laboratory, on a factory floor, or across the internet in another country while the server is in a secure server room. For example; Terminal Server can be used by Application Service Providers to provide access for multiple applications to customers over the Internet. In certain deployments, it might be necessary to restrict user activity to a predefined set of applications or Windows operating system functionality.

If you have companies with employees who speak different languages then it is very handy to install the Multilingual User Interface Packs on the Terminal Server. This will give the user the Windows interface in the language he/she is used to.