Filtered articles: "RDP"

Filtered articles: "RDP"
New Management Capabilities for RDS in Windows Server 8 Beta
Published by Nicholas Dille on 03/13/2012 | 2 Comments | 1,064 Views

Since I have begun working in the virtualization business, customers have been asking for reasons why to spend money for Citrix XenApp and whether Remote Desktop Services (RDS) cuts it for them. For a long time, the answer was easy as hosted sessions on Windows Remote Desktop Services – formerly Terminal Services – have only provided basic functionality. But beginning with Windows Server 2008, Microsoft has put a lot of effort into that space. The underlying roles were steadily improved in every version, e.g. to support rich graphics and virtual desktops. With the public beta of the next Windows Server (8), Microsoft has improved the performance of RDP and built new management capabilities into Server Manager.

From my point of view this may well be changing the game with Citrix with respect to hosted sessions. Let’s have a closer look.
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The Unmanageable File Server

I had an interesting little case to solve at home recently when my headless file server suddenly would not accept RDP connections any more. It still worked flawlessly as a file server, so I ignored the problem for a while.

The issue became urgent when I wanted to run the backup program installed on the machine (which I do manually every month or so). With the machine being headless after the monitor had broken down my only connection to its desktop was via RDP. But mstsc.exe refused to connect...
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New Articles, Tools, Tips and Tricks: Windows (7 and 2008 R2), PowerShell and Citrix
Published by Helge Klein on 02/11/2010 | 8 Comments | 7,650 Views

Windows General

Good info for troubleshooting DFS-Namespaces in the MS KB: Storage locations, inconsistencies and how to deal with them. Complex passwords and security guidelines for end users? No, thank you, says MS researcher. I agree.
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ClearType Bandwidth Revisited - Testing 32 Bit Color Depth
Published by Helge Klein on 09/19/2007 | 3 Comments | 7,734 Views

In an earlier post I wrote about how bandwidth requirements of the RDP protocol are affected by enabling font smoothing (ClearType over RDP version 6) on Windows Server 2008.
Jan, a reader of that article, posted an interesting comment: he had heard that RDP version 6 was optimized for a color depth of 32 bits and asked me to repeat my tests with that setting, which leads to an interesting question: how is font smoothing bandwidth usage affected by the color depth used?
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Bandwidth Requirements for ClearType over RDP
Published by Helge Klein on 08/19/2007 | 6 Comments | 13,442 Views

In an earlier post I wrote about a great technology that finally makes it into terminal services with Windows Server 2008: ClearType or Font Smoothing, as it is sometimes called. I will stick to the term ClearType for the time being.
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