Multi Monitor Support In The Vista TS Client

Saturday, 11 November 2006 by Michel Roth

From the Terminal Services Team Blog comes an article on multi monitor support in the Vista TS client: One of the new features of the Terminal Server/Remote Desktop Client in Windows Vista is the support for multiple monitors. If the machine running the TS-Client has a multi-monitor configuration that creates one logical rectangle, then the TS-Client can span over all the monitors, creating one virtual desktop of the combined size.

There are a few limitations of multi-monitor spanning:

� The maximum dimensions of the virtual desktop in a TS-Session is hard-coded to 4096x2048, regardless of the color-depth and the available resources on the remote machine.

� The remote session will see your virtual desktop as one giant display.This reduces the complexity of the multi-display implementation in the remote session, while still allowing the windowed mode of the TS-Client to be functional and viable.

Read the entire article here.