Tad Brockway - Terminal Services team tour | TheChannel9Team

dotnetjunkie

I use it all the time!

At any moment, 24/7, there are a minimum of 3 terminal services (remote desktop) connections open on my machine to remote servers.

gta4soft

same here I have atleast 2 open rdp connections at all times!

It is nice to see some faces of the people who work on rdp Smiley

Kryptos
Backup People!

I use Terminal Services to remote support servers over the internet for various customers. It rocks! I use the Remote Desktops for this which is included in Win2k3 Server Admin Tools.

This was quite a intrerstering video. I took that applications just work for granted, never thought about how much work was need to make that happen.

Where does Avalon fit in? I seem to recall a video I watched on C9 a while back which implied that Avalon would enchance the Terminal Services Seesion....OK I typed that while watching the video and scoble asked the question again... Sad

Scoble asked my bandwidth question also! Sad

I first used Terminal Services With windows NT 4.0 and citrix back then people used to quote 30k per session, is that not the case any longer?

Scoble your one step ahead!

Michael Butler

Remote applications and remote documents. Way cool.

Another reason to persuade my customers that the upgrade to Vista will be a productivity boost.

workthin

30Kb is still a useable amount of bandwidth for a Terminal Server Session, however it is not sufficient for all situations, i.e. if you're using 16/24 bit color, higher resolutions, sound, remote printing & drive redirection the bandwidth required climbs a bit (usually in about 4Kb increments)

Citrix ICA on the otherhand is a bit less hungry for bandwidth (and can be limited by policy). I monitor ICA bandwidth on my WAN connected sessions and they often stay below 20Kbps, but do spike-up over 100Kbps from time to time.

Patrick Rouse
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
http://www.workthin.com

Doctor
Get out of my lab-or-atory!

Not bad. I am looking forward to seeing the final product from MS once Longhorn server ships. It would be nice to be able to run management consoles like Exchange, SQL, etc. seamlessly directly from the actual servers rather than running a local installation of the tools. Will features like seamless apps be available with the 'remote administration' mode on other regular member servers?

I truely hope that the TS licensing design changes dramatically to mimic the concurrent connection model (Ahem, like Citrix, perhaps Wink ). 2003 and earlier have some annoying issues with administrating and maintaining licenses. I am a weathered Citrix administrator, and usually see more problems with TS licensing because of the overall design. I like TS, but it really needs a licensing model overhaul.

TS has come a long way since the first releases of Hydra on NT4. I know the TS team is working hard to provide more value to the TS core, and I hope that sys admins will be *WOWED* by the new features in the works for Longhorn.

ericmedici

junior882
Developing ASP.NET as posed

Awesome!!! The one thing I would ask would be an easy way to know that the Window I am working in is a remote window. I think some graphical glyph of some type would do the trick. Just the example of showing how you can remote an Explorer window could cause me some grief (and I understand the concept), imagine how a regular use my feel. Whaddya thing?

JoshRoss
A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent.

Can you find an interviewer that has more experience with the products? Or at the very least, do some homework and ask better questions. The use of a screen capture utility would make a wonderful replacement for the Wayne’s World style extreme close-ups of the interviewees screen. That said, it is good to have faces and voices to associate with the names of the developers.