On Microsoft web site, a guide is available describing Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008. These guides describe important tuning parameters and settings that you can adjust to improve the performance and energy efficiency of the Windows Server 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 operating systems. These guidse describes each setting and
Microsoft RDS Team published an article about one of the recurring issues seen in product support: why a client cannot connect. Specifically, errors such as “Unable to RDP,” “Remote Desktop Disconnected,” or “Unable to Connect to Remote Desktop (Terminal server)” are common problems . This article summarizes the various causes for Terminal Server Client (Remote Desktop Client) connection failures and
SMB Tuning for XenApp and File Servers on Windows Server 2008 The SMB 1.0 Problem To begin, it is important to understand the SMB 1.0 limitation that has been present since we first started implementing Terminal Server deployments back in the good old days of NT and MetaFrame. There have already been a lot of good SMB tuning articles out
The Remote Desktop Services Migration Guide is now live on TechNet. This document provides guidance for migrating the Remote Desktop Services role services in Windows Server® 2008 R2 and for Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008 to Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2. This migration guide contains step-by-step instructions for migrating the following role services: Remote Desktop Session Host
The Remote Desktop Services Deployment Guide for Windows Server 2008 R2 is now live on the Download Center and on TechNet. This guide is intended for use by system administrators and system engineers who are responsible for deploying the role services and features for Remote Desktop Services for the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment. It provides detailed guidance for deploying a Remote
Microsoft published a video about installing a complete MS VDI solution and how many servers does it take. Video showcases that you can setup a complete solution including backend, broker, and web publishing to provide virtualized clients on a single physical Windows Server 2008 R2 box. This sample uses Windows 7 for the guest. The complete 16 minute video is at http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/us/details/fbaf6f70-45fd-4c81-be70-6d276d54776b To
After a couple of months in beta, Citrix releases Essentials 5.5 for Hyper-V just before the holidays. This version of the management platform for the Microsoft hypervisor includes a new technology called StorageLink Site Recovery. This feature allows the Hyper-V administrators to control the replication features that their SAN arrays without using multiple consoles. From the Essentials console they can test
I want to talk about a little known feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 that could be described as RemoteApp for Hyper-V. Like Microsoft RemoteApp, it allows users to access a specific hosted application remotely, as opposed to the entire desktop. With RemoteApp, the application runs in the context of a server session; however, RemoteApp for Hyper-V enables remote access
With Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft supports two VDI deployment scenarios: virtual desktop pools and personal virtual desktops. The two scenarios present two different models of assigning virtual machines to end users: shared and dedicated. This post describes personal virtual desktops. What is a personal virtual desktop? – A personal virtual desktop is a virtual machine hosted on a Remote Desktop Virtualization
There are a number of ways in which an administrator can publish RemoteApp programs and virtual desktops in Windows Server 2008 R2. The following contains a brief, high-level overview of the publishing options you have, depending on the size of your deployment. Very small deployment, single Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) server/farm: If your deployment requirements are: Publish
