Category: Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 (and their subsequent Service Packs) only

This policy setting allows you to control the availability of RemoteFX on both a Remote Desktop Virtualization Host (RD Virtualization Host) server and a Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) server. When deployed on an RD Virtualization Host server RemoteFX delivers a rich user experience by rendering content on the server by using graphics processing units (GPUs). By default RemoteFX for RD Virtualization Host uses server-side GPUs to deliver a rich user experience over LAN connections and RDP 7. 1. When deployed on an RD Session Host server RemoteFX delivers a rich user experience by using a hardware-accelerated compression scheme. If you enable this policy setting RemoteFX will be used to deliver a rich user experience over LAN connections and RDP 7. 1. If you disable this policy setting RemoteFX will be disabled. If you do not configure this policy setting the default behavior will be used. By default RemoteFX for RD Virtualization Host is enabled and RemoteFX for RD Session Host is disabled.

This policy setting allows you to specify the visual experience that remote users will have in Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) connections that use RemoteFX. You can use this policy to balance the network bandwidth usage with the type of graphics experience that is delivered. Depending on the requirements of your users you can reduce network bandwidth usage by reducing the screen capture rate. You can also reduce network bandwidth usage by reducing the image quality (increasing the amount of image compression that is performed). If you have a higher than average bandwidth network you can maximize the utilization of bandwidth by selecting the highest setting for screen capture rate and the highest setting for image quality. By default Remote Desktop Connection sessions that use RemoteFX are optimized for a balanced experience over LAN conditions. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting Remote Desktop Connection sessions that use RemoteFX will be the same as if the medium screen capture rate and the medium image compression settings were selected (the default behavior).

This policy setting allows you to specify the visual experience that remote users receive in Remote Desktop Services sessions. Remote sessions on the remote computer are then optimized to support this visual experience. By default Remote Desktop Services sessions are optimized for rich multimedia such as applications that use Silverlight or Windows Presentation Foundation. If you enable this policy setting you must select the visual experience for which you want to optimize Remote Desktop Services sessions. You can select either Rich multimedia or Text. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting Remote Desktop Services sessions are optimized for rich multimedia.