Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Services (RDS)

re: Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Services (RDS)

EVVJSK — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:50:36 GMT

You mention Hyper-V integration. Is there an additional cost for the Hyper-V functionality that provides extra RDS features or is that functionality already included in the OS cost ?

Also, have you reduced prices on RDS CALS (one of the things which prevented our rollout of Terminal Serices/RDS was signficant costs of CALs.)?

re: Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Services (RDS)

Samir FARHAT — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:16:52 GMT

Hey, thanks for this excellent blog, but a question please: Has USB device support been enhanced. Because, even with Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 with RemoteFX, there's some devices that cannot be redirect like ALL-IN-ONE printers ?

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Mr. T — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:11:42 GMT

It would great to know which new capabilties work with Windows 7 clients (e.g., single-sign on)

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Russell Burnell — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:20:28 GMT

I'm trying to access a Windows Server 2012 RC install via an existing RD Gateway but it just won't connect. All the other 2008 servers are accessible so I guess there's a "gotcha" with the new version that I'm not aware of, nor can I find anything.....any ideas?

Cheers for now

Russell

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Shahid Roofi — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:22:38 GMT

at our customer site, 3dsmax and autodesk is used. They are very interested in remoteFX which enables vGPU however the games they develop donot perform well on remoteFX.

There are two main challenges a) Performance and 2nd) Compatibility of vGPU WDDM device which is not reconginised by most of the graphic packages.

Performance is in fact disappointing check to see the benchmarks where it lies almost at the bottom: www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php

I hope calista technologies acquired by MS to develop this remoteFX is working on increasing it's power further in the upcomming 2012 version.

Any insights on this would be apprecated.

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Bn8959 — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:24:06 GMT

Will you need to be running a Windows 8 client to be able to use USB redirection without a GPU in the host? Or will the current RDP clients in Win & XP now work with it?

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LestaG — Fri, 25 May 2012 01:00:11 GMT

How easy is it to have 2008R2 session hosts as the backend to a 2012 front end. ie. Use the benefits of the 2012 gateway , connection broker, single sign on etc, but the users running environment is a 2008R2 session host?

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Tristan Scott [MSFT] — Wed, 23 May 2012 15:48:45 GMT

Hi Beth,

Yes, there are new security features made available to Remote Desktop Services administrators in Windows Server 2012. We have plans to blogs in detail about each of them, but for now here are the two highlights:

1) Single sign-on no longer requires a certificate, which greatly simplifies the deployment steps.

2) Clients connecting through Remote Desktop Gateway can now use Kerberos when authenticating to corporate Remote Desktop resources. This enables smart card authentication of remote clients that want to connect via the Gateway to machines requiring Network Level Authentication.

Thanks,

Tristan Scott, RDS Team Program Manager

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Klaas Langhout [MSFT] — Tue, 22 May 2012 23:17:21 GMT

Regarding the question on printing improvements: there are no specific updates to printing in Windows Server 2012 around EasyPrint that was updated in 2008 R2. For more information on EasyPrint see blogs.msdn.com/.../using-remote-desktop-easy-print-in-windows-7-and-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx

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Gaurav Daga [MSFT] — Tue, 22 May 2012 22:37:46 GMT

Hi Rune

A physical GPU can be used in a RD Session Host (RDSH) but can only be used by user sessions where they are using DirectX applications that are not running in full-screen exclusive mode. Given the multi-user nature of RDSH, full-screen exclusive mode DirectX applications are not allowed. This has not changed since Windows Server 2008 R2.

Also, given the multi-user nature of RDSH, it is recommended to configure a physical GPU on RDSH only if all the applications in use by the user sessions are 3D – if there is a mix of GDI, 2D, and 3D applications in the workload (e.g. Office apps are in the mix), you will get better overall server scale/density by continuing to use the default software GPU on the RDSH. As a best practice, it is recommended to test your particular workload with multiple simultaneous users on the RDSH with and without physical GPU to decide which mode to deploy.

To switch the RDSH over to use the physical GPU, please enable the following group policy:

Path: Local Computer Policy\Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Remote Desktop Services\Remote Desktop Session Host\Remote Session Environment

Title: Use the hardware default graphics adapter for all Remote Desktop Services sessions

And to verify it is working, you can use dxdiag in the remote session.

Thank you

Gaurav Daga

Lead Program Manager - RemoteFX, RDS Team