Remote desktop experience in Windows 8

1. SAC-642T Remote desktop experience in Windows 8 Nadim Abdo Principal Development Manager Microsoft Corporation Gaurav Daga Senior Program Manager Lead Microsoft Corporation

2. Agenda • Overview of the new Remote Desktop Experience • Improved graphics remoting • Metro style Remote Desktop app • Support for a wide range of networks • Demos! You’ll leave with a good overview of the new features and benefits of the Remote Desktop experience in Windows Server 8

3. First Some Background On Remote Desktop • Windows Server 2008 R2/Windows 7 – RDP 7.0 • Introduced Media redirection • True multi-monitor support • Aero Glass desktop • Improved experience via enhanced bitmap codecs • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 – RDP 7.1 • Integrated RemoteFX technology • Enables rich desktop remoting within corporate network/LAN

4. Factors Affecting Desktop Remoting Today Fast and fluid graphics Wide range of network conditions New client devices & form factors Mobile devices, WAN Windows Metro style user interface Touch, Slates

5. What’s new in Desktop Remoting?

6. What’s New In Remote Desktop? Customer Value: Fast and fluid remoting of the full Windows Metro style UI across a wide range of networks RemoteFX For WAN RemoteFX Adaptive Graphics RemoteFX Media Remoting RemoteFX Multi Touch Metro Style Remote Desktop App RemoteFX USB Redirection Choice of Software or Physical GPU, vGPU for VM Broad Range of Clients Supported Available for Sessions, VM’s and Physical Machines Choice of deployment options

7. RemoteFX is the name for the full fidelity remote experience in Windows Server 8

8. RemoteFX Adaptive Graphics

9. RemoteFX Graphics Architecture Overview Apps and Desktop RemoteFX Adaptive Graphics RemoteFX for WAN Windows Metro style UI and Applications (HTML, XAML, Native, etc..) RemoteFX Intelligent Caching RemoteFX Media Remoting RemoteFX Progressive Rendering RemoteFX Optimized Text Codecs RemoteFX Calista Codec RemoteFX Protocol Encoding RemoteFX for WAN Transports

10. RemoteFX in Windows Server 8 dynamically adapts to changing network conditions and optimizes encoding to the content

11. Remote FX Adaptive Graphics (1/2)

12. Remote FX Adaptive Graphics (2/2) Text Content Image Content Video/Animations

13. RemoteFX Progressive Rendering (1/2)

14. RemoteFX Progressive Rendering (2/2) Text remains clear while images are progressively refined

15. New Metro Style Remote Desktop App

16. Metro Style Remote Desktop App Touch friendly UI Touch remoting Integrated with app publishing

17. demo The remote experience in Windows 8 (graphics, touch, metro style remote desktop client) Gaurav Daga Senior Program Manager Lead Remote Desktop Virtualization

18. RemoteFX for WAN

19. Factors affecting remoting on WAN Latency Packet Loss Limited bandwidth Burst or Random End to end delay/ping (e.g. 100ms) E.g. <2 Mbps vs 100Mbps for LAN

20. RemoteFX for WAN • Combines RemoteFX adaptive graphics with intelligent WAN aware transports • Automatic choice of TCP or optimized UDP transport • Dynamically auto detects and tunes encoding to network • Integrated with Remote Desktop Gateway • Goal: Deliver a great user experience beyond corp net • Branch Offices • Wireless devices • Work from home • WAN

21. RemoteFX for WAN – Multi transport (1/2) Input Control Devices RemoteFX Adaptive Graphics Audio Plugins Video Encode Plugins VC VC VC Network autodetect RemoteFX Graphics Dynamic Virtual Channel RemoteFX Audio RemoteFX Media Remoting Dynamic Virtual Channel Management RemoteFX TCP Transport NETWORK (TCP Packets)

22. RemoteFX for WAN – Multi transport (2/2) Input Control Devices RemoteFX Adaptive Graphics Audio Plugins Video Encode Plugins VC VC VC Network autodetect RemoteFX Graphics Dynamic Virtual Channel RemoteFX Audio RemoteFX Media Remoting Dynamic Virtual Channel Management RemoteFX TCP Transport RemoteFX UDP transport NETWORK (TCP & UDP Packets)

23. demo RemoteFX for WAN (adaptive graphics and WAN aware transports) Gaurav Daga Senior Program Manager Lead Remote Desktop Virtualization

24. RemoteFX in Windows Server 8 delivers a touch friendly, fast and fluid remote desktop experience over a wide range of networks

25. Related sessions • SAC-217T – Graphics on the server • SAC-428T – Design for a multimillion thin client market with RemoteFX

26. Further reading and documentation • Remote Desktop Services Team Blog • http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rds/

27. Q & A

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