Remote Desktop IP Virtualization provides administrators the ability to assign a unique IP address to a program that is available by using RemoteApp and Desktop Connection. In this guide, we will configure Remote Desktop IP Virtualization and access it as a standard user by using RemoteApp and Desktop...

Ruben Spruijt, Technology Officer PQR and Jeroen van de Kamp , CTO Login Consultants released phase 2 of their Virtual Reality Check project. This Project VRC phase 2 whitepaper focuses completely on analyzing Terminal Services (TS) workloads running on the latest generation hardware and hypervisors...

App-V for TS / RDS help solve applications compatibility on Terminal Servers / Session Hosts Server growth is a costly issue for organizations that rely on session hosts / terminal servers. To avoid application conflicts, applications must undergo significant testing to determine which applications will...

Earlier Helge Klein wrote an interesting article on the subject of Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Cleartype (Cleartype is about making fonts look nice and smooth on LCD screens) support and the effect it had on bandwidth usage. In this previous article Helge was able to determine that enabling...

In an earlier post , we showed how to create a per user license usage report in Windows Server 2008. Below we show how to create a per device license usage report. On Windows Server 2003, a Per Device Terminal Services Client Access License (TS CAL) usage report could be generated using the Lsreport...

As promised earlier , Microsoft's Mac Business Unit (Mac BU) released the Universal Application beta version of its Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) client for Mac OS X, version 2.0. "Built from the ground up, the RDC for Mac 2.0 beta allows users to remotely connect to computers running Microsoft Windows...

The Terminal Services Management Pack for Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 monitors the health and performance of Terminal Services components. It includes a rich set of views, tasks, and reports, and provides monitoring for Terminal Services, the Licensing Server, and the Session Directory. This...

It's official! At BriForum Chicago (advertised on Bink.nu) , Microsoft's Nelly Porter confirmed the rumor that has been going around for some time now: Longhorn (Terminal) Server will have its own "universal printer" functionality. This functionality will be included for the first time in the upcoming...

Longhorn will have Load Balancing! Notice that I'm not talking about Network Load Balancing. Load Balancing in Longhorn will actually be usable Load Balancing. It is build into the new Session Directory renamed to the Session Broker (I wonder if they picked this VDI-like name on purpose...). This Load...

There has been a lot of feedback about the new authentication features introduced in the latest version of the Remote Desktop Connection client. These features are part of our efforts to improve security for Terminal Services (TS) in Windows Vista and Windows Server code name “Longhorn” , however some...