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Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services introduced some neat enhancement. Unfortunately, to be able to use some of these new features you needed the 6.1 RDP Client. This client is a part of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3. Time to take a closer look.
The RDC 6.1 client update contains the
following features.
Terminal
Services Web Access
You need the 6.1
client to be able to properly use TS Web access.
Terminal
Services EasyPrint
Terminal Services Easy Print makes sure
that client printers are always installed in remote sessions and that you do
not have to install the printer drivers on the terminal server. Additionally,
Terminal Services Easy Print addresses several other printer redirection issues
that have been problematic in the past. Print queues are now enumerated per
session, all printer properties are available in the remote session, and
terminal server administrators can use a policy setting to redirect only the
default printer. Terminal Services Easy Print is now the default printer
redirection mechanism in Terminal Services. Therefore, no configuration is
required to use this feature.
What is required to use Terminal Services Easy Print?
Well, of course Windows Server 2008 Terminal
Services. On the Terminal Services client, the user must be running Terminal
Services client 6.1 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 with SP1.
Network
Level Authentication
Network Level Authentication (NLA) is a
new authentication method that finishes user authentication before you
establish a full Remote Desktop connection and before the logon screen appears.
I guess you all know what NLA is because when I first got introduced in te RDP
6.0 client, half the world had issues with it. So Microsoft listened, kind of:
by default, Network Level Authentication (NLA) is disabled in Windows XP
Service Pack 3. To enable NLA, you have to turn on the Credential Security
Service Provider (CredSSP).
Server
authentication
In RDC 6.1, server authentication
verifies that you are connecting to the correct remote computer or remote
server. This security feature helps prevent you from connecting to a computer
or server to which you did not intend to connect. This feature also prevents
you from unintentionally exposing confidential information.
Other features in the 6.1 RDP Client that are not necessarily new are
Monitor
spanning
Remote Desktop Connection supports
high-resolution displays that span multiple monitors. However, the total
resolution on all monitors must be under 4096 x 2048 pixels. The monitors must
have the same resolution. Additionally, the monitors must be aligned
side-by-side. To make the desktop of the remote computer span multiple
monitors, type Mstsc /span at a command prompt.
Visual
improvements
Remote Desktop Connection now supports
32-bit color and font smoothing.
More information can be found here.
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