Good morning all – today’s post is a very brief one regarding new announcements concerning Remote Desktop Services.  The original announcements were made on the Remote Desktop ServicesTeam blog . RDS CAL Single Pack now available in Retail channel – Remote Desktop Client Access Licenses (CAL’s)...

Welcome back AskPerf!  After our Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Launch Series, it’s time to get back to business as usual.  Before our series I wrote a post touching on User Profile issues on Terminal Servers .  At the end of that post, I promised we’d come back and discuss some things...

Happy Sunday everyone!  It’s Day Eighteen of our Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Launch Series – only four more days to go till the big day!  Today we’re wrapping up our look at some of the new Remote Desktop Services features with a quick overview of Remote Desktop IP Virtualization (RD...

Good Morning AskPerf Nation! Our Launch Series is at Day Seventeen. There are only five more days to go! Today we’re continuing on with Remote Desktop Services, with a look at Remote Desktop Services Virtualization (or RDS-V, for short). You may also hear RDS-V referred to as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure...

Welcome back – Happy Friday! Day Sixteen of our Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Launch Series is upon us. There are only six more days to go and excitement is growing! Following on from yesterday’s post, today we’re going to take a look at the specifics of Connection Broker for Windows Server 2008...

Good Morning AskPerf! Welcome to Day Fifteen of our Launch Series. There is only one more week to go! If you remember Windows Server 2003 R2 then you probably also remember that Terminal Services (as it was called then) didn’t change much from Windows Server 2003. The same cannot be said for Remote Desktop...

Welcome back to our Launch Series. It’s Day Fourteen which means that there’s just over a week to go! Today we’re continuing on with our look at various Remote Desktop Services components. Our subject: RemoteApp and Desktop Connection. In Windows Server 2008 , RemoteApp was introduced to deploy RDS applications...

Welcome back to our Launch Series. Today is Day Thirteen – only a few more days to go! Today we’re continuing on with Remote Desktop Services with a look at the architecture. Here we go: There have been some design changes in RDS (remote desktop services) and in RDC (remote desktop client). Let’s...

Good Morning! Welcome to Day Twelve of our Launch Series. Today, we’re going to start looking at What’s New in Terminal Services … Remote Desktop Services. So clearly that would be the first change to be aware of, namely that the Terminal Services server role has been renamed to Remote Desktop Services...

Wow.  It’s hard to believe that it’s already September – 2009 has just zipped by so far!  We’ve covered a number of topics on debugging over the last couple of weeks, but today we’re going to switch gears just a bit and talk about User Profiles and Terminal Services.  We don’t normally...

Happy Friday AskPerf!  The Remote Desktop Services team have been busy the last couple of weeks.  There are several new posts on the RDS blog – definitely great weekend reading! Creating Kerberos Identity for RD Session Host Farms Part I: using the Remote Desktop Services provider for Windows...

TERMINAL SERVER WEB ACCESS Description: This document pertains only to Terminal Server Web Access in Windows Server 2008. It does not apply to Remote Desktop Web Connection that shipped with Windows Server 2003. Terminal Server Web Access refers to the web site that is installed when the Terminal...

TERMINAL SERVER LOAD BALANCING Description: Terminal Server Load Balancing refers to either Session Directory and Microsoft Network Load Balancing used with Windows Server 2003 Terminal Servers, or Session Broker used with Windows Server 2008 Terminal Servers*. A Terminal Server Farm is often...

TERMINAL SERVER DEVICE REDIRECTION Description: Terminal Services provides users the ability to access their local devices and resources in remote sessions. Users can access resources such as local drives, printers, the Clipboard, and supported Plug and Play devices. This is usually referred...

REMOTE DESKTOP CLIENT 6.x Description: The Remote Desktop Client, or RDC, is the official name for the client used to connect to a Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 Terminal Server. As the features of Terminal Server evolve, a new RDC version is typically released to support these features...

TERMINAL SERVER: REMOTEAPPS Description: Terminal Server RemoteApps refers to applications deployed via Terminal Services and managed by the RemoteApp manager in Windows Server 2008. A RemoteApp is deployed in one of three ways: A .RDP file is distributed to users via a network share or...

INSTALLING AND CONFIGURING APPLICATIONS Description: On a Terminal Server, installing applications refers to the installation of a program that will be deployed to users using Terminal Services. Configuring applications refers to application compatibility flags and scripts that are used to customize...

MANAGEMENT AND CONFIGURATION Description: Management and configuration of Terminal Services refers to the management of Terminal Servers using the Terminal Server Admin tool and the configuration of Terminal Servers using the Terminal Services Configuration tool. Installation of the Terminal...

TERMINAL SERVER: CANNOT CREATE A SESSION / SESSION DISCONNECTS Description: There are different situations that need to be specifically identified and isolated while troubleshooting problems about connecting to a Terminal Server, creating a session, suddenly disconnected or logged off. Those...

BLANK DESKTOP IN RDP SESSION Description: A Terminal Server session can also be defined as remote access to a desktop. When creating a session to a Terminal Server/Remote Desktop Server there are a several stages of the connection process that must be successful before the user can interact with...

TS: Terminal Server Printing / Easy Print Easy Print is a printer redirection technology first implemented in Windows Server 2008, and allows terminal server printer redirection without having additional drivers installed. Scoping the Issue: 1. When did the issue start and what was the last...

TS: Terminal Server Group Policies Description: Terminal Server group polices refers to the implementation of Group Policy objects (GPOs) to the Terminal Services server to control the Terminal Server or Remote Desktop Server settings in an Active Directory domain. Scoping the Issue: When...

Hello AskPerf, my name is Subheet Rastogi and I am a Technical Lead on the Performance team in Bangalore.  Today, we’re going to take a quick look at issues that typically arise when using graphic intensive applications or media streaming in a Remote Desktop Session.  Some common examples where...

Hey folks – today’s post is a short one.  There are some great new posts over at the Terminal Services Team Blog that we thought we’d share: Remote Desktop Services at the 2009 MVP Summit : The annual MVP Summit was held last week in Seattle and Redmond.  The Remote Desktop Services (the feature...

Hello AskPerf readers, it’s Don Geddes again and I’m back with that post that I promised you about that pesky dialog box that we all know so well. In this post, I’m going to walk through some common client/server scenarios and explain the technical details of what generates the “Unknown Publisher” dialog...