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The Europe edition of Tech Ed 2013 will be held in Madrid, June 25-28. I will be staffing in the VDI booth as part of the Microsoft Solutions Experience area! I will be doing demo’s of VDI / RDS in Windows Server 2012. If you have questions on VDI / RDS in Windows Server 2012 (or what’s coming in th ...

Part 3 of the series of articles I’m co-authoring on VDI in Windows Server 2012 together with Kristin Griffin (also RDS MVP) is now online on Microsoft TechNet Magazine. Read it here: Windows Server 2012: Manage your RDS with RDMS In this part we’ll describe the main sections of Remote Desktop Manag ...

The Microsoft Remote Desktop Virtualization team created a new blog post that discusses the way to get the best RDP 8.0 experience when connecting to Windows 7. Very useful information when you’re setting up a VDI environment en need to connect to a Windows 7 client! “…The Remote Desktop Protocol (R ...

Part 2 of the series of articles I’m co-authoring on VDI in Windows Server 2012 together with Kristin Griffin (also RDS MVP) is now online on Microsoft TechNet Magazine. Read it here: Virtualization: VDI session-based deployment  ...

A new TechNet Wiki was started by Jeroen van Eesteren (MSFT) recently related to setting up and configuring RemoteFX vGPU in Windows Server 2012. A very detailed wiki worthwhile checking out: RemoteFX vGPU Setup and Configuration Guide for Windows Server 2012 The contents of the Wiki: 1. What is Rem ...

My new article on VirtualizationAdmin.com has just been published. “…Now that Windows Server 2012 has been generally available for some time, it’s high time to take a look back at the past few months to see what Windows Server 2012, and particularly Session-Based Desktop Deployment, Powered by RDS  ...

Venkat Bodapati, a software development engineer on the Remote Desktop Virtualization (RDV) team wrote a blog post to highlight new features of RD Gateway in Windows Server 2012. In the blog post he discusses: Transport changes to enable the WAN improvements in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) 8.0 Ma ...

A new KB article (2795531) has been released to fix an issue related to unsuccessful connections to VM’s running on a RD Virtualization Host. “…Consider the following scenario: You deploy a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment in a network. You enable the Remote Desktop Virtualization  ...

A new hotfix has been released (2796764) to fix the issue where the “new” option is missing in the context menu on a redirected drive using a Remote Desktop Session. Have been running into this issue too, glad that it’s fixed. Root of a redirected drive: Subfolder: “…Consider the following scenari ...

User Profile Disks (UPD) is a new technique introduced in Windows Server 2012 to deal with profiles on VDI deployments for Session-Based deployments as well as Virtual Machine-Based deployments.  For more information on setting up UPD also see this TechNet Wiki: http://social.technet.microsoft ...