March, 2010

This blog is a follow-up to the RemoteApp for Hyper-V blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/rds/archive/2009/12/15/remoteapp-for-hyper-v.aspx . Introduction Similar to RemoteApp, the RemoteApp for Hyper-V feature allows users to access a specific hosted application...

Introduction [April, 2010: Updated to clarify CAL types] Many of our customers have multiple versions of Remote Desktop Session Host servers (formerly known as terminal servers), such as Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server...

My name is Tad Brockway.  I am the Product Unit Manager for the Remote Desktop Virtualization (RDV) Calista (now RemoteFX ) engineering team. We’re located on the Microsoft Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View, California.  I have been passionate...

Note: This blog post was updated on 12/21/2010 to reference two new hotfixes. Recently, we have started to get more calls related to an issue with the Terminal Services and Remote Desktop Services license server that is caused by the expiration of...

The Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (Microsoft VDI) involves multiple role services. To develop a true high availability solution for this setup, you need to understand the high availability solution for each role service. This blog post identifies...

Hi, my name is Max Herrmann and I am part of the Remote Desktop Services (RDS) marketing team. On Thursday, Microsoft hosted the Microsoft Desktop Virtualization Hour , a live online event where we talked about desktop virtualization, about VDI, and where...

A virtual desktop pool is a group of identically configured virtual machines on a Remote Desktop Virtualization Host (RD Virtualization Host) server. All virtual machines in a virtual desktop pool are identically configured; a user should see the same...

We are proud to announce the availability of the white paper “Deploying a Virtualized Session-Based Remote Desktop Services Solution.”  This document provides guidance on deploying Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) and other Remote Desktop...

Microsoft’s VDI solution offers two deployment scenarios: virtual desktop pools and personal virtual desktops . Virtual desktop pools are not dependent on a specific Active Directory schema level; however, personal virtual desktops do need a Windows Server...

Michael Kleef has an interesting new blog post explaining why Remote Desktop Session Host can be better in the exact same scenarios than pooled VDI .