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1.3 Overview

The Terminal Services Workspace Provisioning Protocol (TSWPP) was created to provide users with a unified view of the resources that have been made available to them by an administrator. This protocol obtains information that a client machine can use to launch a remote application that runs on a server or a virtual machine (VM). The client can arrange the remote resources so that a user can use a pointing device to launch the application.

TSWPP specifies an HTTP–based interface [RFC7230] that uses XML messages to describe the remote resources that are available. In this specification, the entity that initiates the HTTP connection is referred to as the client, and the entity that responds to the HTTP connection is referred to as the server.