Top 10 RDP Protocol Misconceptions – Part 1

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re: Top 10 RDP Protocol Misconceptions – Part 1

Harry@Ardimedia.Com — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:53:34 GMT

I saw "The Aero theme with full glass and 3D effects" also running on Windows Server 2008. But I could not bring it to work on one of our servers. How to do this?

Thankx, Cheers Harry

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Nik — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:36:23 GMT

"However, ever since Windows XP, RDP has supported up to 32bpp color."

up to 24 :)

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Cd-MaN — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:27:55 GMT

Out of curiosity: what is your opinion about the assertion that RDP is insecure: http://louwrentius.blogspot.com/2008/11/did-you-know-that-rdp-is-s-secure-as.html ? I know that it refers to rather old versions of the protocol, but there are still NT 4.0 machines out there in production, whether we like it or not, so these issues will be relevant for a long time.

re: Top 10 RDP Protocol Misconceptions – Part 1

JStanfield — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:32:27 GMT

The link for the RDP Performance White paper is broken. Any chance of getting the appropriate link?

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Gaurav Daga [MSFT] — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:34:35 GMT

Re: I saw "The Aero theme with full glass and 3D effects" also running on Windows Server 2008. But I could not bring it to work on one of our servers. How to do this?

Thankx, Cheers Harry

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Aero theme support is not available when connecting to Windows Server 2008. It is only available when connecting to Windows Vista as outlined in myth #3 on this post.

re: Top 10 RDP Protocol Misconceptions – Part 1

Kevin — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:45:18 GMT

"The Aero theme with full glass and 3D effects"

What kind of performance can one expect when using RDP to connect to a Vista machine with Aero when hardware acceleration is not supported? This was one of the future benefits of the Calista technology. I don't see how you can claim this with performance of software rendering of 3D is poor. Due to the lack of hardware rendering we are limited to the abilities of software rendering, which are limited.

re: Top 10 RDP Protocol Misconceptions – Part 1

Gaurav Daga [MSFT] — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:08:21 GMT

Re: last query in the comment stream

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The answer to your question is somewhat related to myth #1 outlined in this blog post. The assumption that to do Aero theme in a RDP session on Vista, RDP has to screen scrape and render on the graphics hardware on the remote machine and send giant bitmaps down the wire is not true. Aero glass remoting happens using a client-side rendering technology where the Aero commands are intercepted in the RDP session and sent using RDP dynamic virtual channels over to the client computer and rendered using the graphics acceleration hardware present on the client. So practically the remote Vista computer can have no graphics hardware at all for the RDP session to get Aero glass - this is the case when the remote computer is a Hyper-V based Vista virtual machine which does not have the necessary virtualized graphics hardware; even here an RDP session to this Vista VM can get full Aero glass as long as the client computer has Vista with basic DirectX 9 compliant hardware. Hope this clarifies.

re: Top 10 RDP Protocol Misconceptions – Part 1

Harry@Ardimedia.Com — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:01:32 GMT

"The Aero theme with full glass and 3D effects" on WinServer 2008 probably not supported but it is working. I have seen it on the "Visual Studio 2010 CTP" which comes preconfigured from Microsoft. Are there any steps one can follow to get this to work on other maschines for testing propose only (not asking for a supported solution)?

re: Top 10 RDP Protocol Misconceptions – Part 1

Gaurav Daga [MSFT] — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:31:07 GMT

Re: last query in the comment stream

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Looks like you are asking for how to make Aero glass theme work locally on a Windows Server 2008 - nothing to do with RDP. Please try the following:

1. On the Windows Server 2008, install the Desktop Experience optional feature

2. Enable the Themes service

3. For your user account, go to Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Personalization and choose the Aero glass theme

Gaurav Daga [MSFT]

Kevin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:05:18 GMT

Thank you for your response. It is all well and good that Aero remoting can work (with a Vista client with appropriate hardware) by remoting commands and perimatives, but what about other 3D? How would it work with Virtual Earth, or Adobe Acrobat 3D?

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Mario - Roma - Italy — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:22:49 GMT

I have a Terminal Server on a server with a business critical application based on Word and a lot of macros. Each time the user types a character the cursor performs many moves to check the context where the character is inserted.

The RDP session slows down, while using pure Word the perofmance is fine.

How can I customize or tune RDP in order to provide a better user experience?

re: Top 10 RDP Protocol Misconceptions – Part 1

Mark — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:25:52 GMT

Simple. Run it on Citrix. Even with the improvements to RDP (and it has improved), ICA is still the better protocol.

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termserv — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:31:06 GMT

@JStanfield

The link to the whitepaper works for me. What error do you get?

Rob

The Top 10 Myths about Terminal Services' RDP Protocol

Realtime Community | Windows Server — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:36:39 GMT

Microsoft's Terminal Services team publishes the first in a two-part series on the top 10 biggest misconceptions about the RDP protocol used by Terminal Services. Along with each tip is a detailed explanation of the real facts. In this first post, Nadim

re: Top 10 RDP Protocol Misconceptions – Part 1

favad ahmed — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:39:20 GMT

i have heard that there is a deliberate 10ms delay in the protocol (at the behest of citrix?) is this true or yet another myth?

re: Top 10 RDP Protocol Misconceptions – Part 1

ababiec — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:49:31 GMT

I'm connecting from Vista 32-bit sp1 Business laptop to a Vista 64-bit sp1 Business desktop. Both have Aero glass enabed.

Why is that when I RDP from one to another, I'm not getting Aero Glass even though I have all the options turned on in RDP?

The remote 64-bit desktop has an Nvidia Quadro FX 3700 with 512MB of ram and 8GB of ram, so it should have enough horsepower.

Is there anything else I am missing?

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anomymuos — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:04:51 GMT

To what OSes will RDP 7.0 be available downlevel? Vista at least?

Nieuws t/m week 17 - 2009

Bob's Nieuws — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:07:50 GMT

De afgelopen periode was nogal een periode van veranderingen. Zo was er de bijna overname van Sun door

re: Top 10 RDP Protocol Misconceptions – Part 1

hornshwangler — Sun, 17 May 2009 20:20:08 GMT

When will the Mac RDC client be available for the TSG under Windows Server 2008?

thanks

Dan