[Aug. 2010: Updated instructions for starting PowerShell in the RDS context] In Windows Server® 2008 R2, we introduced the Remote Desktop Services Provider for Windows PowerShell™ . This post gives examples of how you can use this new feature...

The Remote Desktop Connection 7.0 client and related features are now supported on Windows® Embedded Standard 2009 and Windows Embedded POSReady 2009. The client update for Windows Embedded Standard 2009 and POSReady 2009 supports the same RDC 7.0 features...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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...

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...

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...

The white paper, RD Session Host Capacity Planning in Windows Server 2008 R2 , is now live on the Download Center.  This white paper describes the most relevant factors that influence the capacity of a given deployment, methodologies to evaluate...

I’m the partner program manager for the Remote Desktop Services (RDS) team. I help our ISV partners develop on our platform. Any API that is available to partners outside of Microsoft is documented on MSDN , but the MSDN format doesn’t always make it...

Hi, I’m Joe and I’m the programming writer who maintains the RDS content on MSDN. We welcome your comments and observations about MSDN Library content. Topics in MSDN Library offer various methods for providing feedback about the accuracy and thoroughness...

With the growing trend toward desktop virtualization, it is Microsoft’s goal to provide enterprises with a flexible model for centralized computing, whereby the broadest range of client devices can help securely access company data and applications from...

Remote Desktop Services partners are very important to the RDS team. We’ve had a partner page up for a long time, but wanted to refresh it to better show what our partners do and what value they add to the RDS platform, as well as help you find the resources...

People have asked us how easy it is to install a complete MS VDI solution and how many servers does it take.  I’ve created a video to showcase that you can setup a complete solution including backend, broker, and web publishing to provide virtualized...

UPDATE : The new Application Compatibility Assessment is here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rds/archive/2011/07/06/free-rds-application-assessment-program-by-changebase.aspx The Remote Desktop Services (RDS) Application Compatibility Analyzer is a...

The Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway, formerly known as TS Gateway) ISA configuration script helps ease the process of setting up an ISA server for RD Gateway supported scenarios such as the RD Gateway-ISA core scenario and the RD Gateway-ISA OTP scenario...

Imagine that you are responsible for managing Remote Desktop Services at Woodgrove Bank. Woodgrove Bank has recently approved a new authentication vendor and you must upgrade all edge services -- including Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) – to support...

Scenario The two virtual machine deployment scenarios supported by the Microsoft VDI solution are: 1) Virtual desktop pool and 2) Personal virtual desktops. These two scenarios present two different models of assigning virtual machines to end users. This...

In our earlier blog post, we introduced RemoteApp and Desktop Connections to enable users to have their RemoteApp and Desktop icons integrated on their Windows 7 start menu.  RemoteApp and Desktop Connections works with this new feature of Remote...

Today, we 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...

Overview The purpose of this post is to help an Administrator configure a Windows Vista or Windows XP operating system in a virtual machine for a Remote Desktop Services Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployment. This post is an addendum to the...