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Note Even if you select the Allow Me To Save Credentials check box, you might be prompted to enter your credentials during the logon process depending on your network’s policies and the confi guration of the Terminal Services server. Figure 19-4 RDC options. There are six tabs you can use to change the client settings:  General You might want to use these options to save keystrokes by adding logon information. Rather than typing in your settings each time, you can save the con- nection settings and load them when you want to make a connection. To save the current connection settings, click Save As, and then use the Save As dialog box to save the .rdp fi le for the connection. To load previously saved connection settings, click Open, and then use the Open dialog box to fi nd and open the previously saved connection settings.  Display The default settings for RDC are full-screen and high-color. You can mod- ify these settings here. Use the Remote Desktop Size option to set the screen size. The size options avail- able depend on the display size on the local computer. Note Even if you select the Allow Me To Save Credentials check box, you might be prompted to enter your credentials during the logon process depending on your network’s policies and the confi guration of the Terminal Services server. Supporting Remote Desktop Connection Clients 617 Chapter 19 Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Use the Colors option to choose the preferred color depth. The default is 32-bit highest quality color, but settings on the remote computer might override this setting.  Local Resources You can modify the way the resource and device redirection work, including audio redirection, keystroke combination redirection, and local device and resource redirection. By default, remote computer sound is redirected to the local computer. Using the Remote Computer Sound option, you can change the default setting by selecting Do Not Play or Leave At Remote Computer. By default, when you are working in full-screen mode, key combinations such as Alt+Tab and Ctrl+Esc are redirected to the remote system, and Ctrl+Alt+Delete is handled locally. Using Apply Windows Key Combinations, you change this behavior so key combinations are sent to the local computer or the remote com- puter only. However, if you send key combinations to the remote computer only, you could get in a situation where you cannot log on locally. By default, local printers are connected automatically when users are logged on to the remote computer. This makes it easy to print to your currently confi gured printers when you are working with a remote system. By default, anything you copy to the remote computer’s Clipboard is copied to the local computer’s Clipboard. This makes it easy to copy from a remote source and paste into a local source. Click More in the Local Devices And Resources panel to see additional options. By default, the additional options ensure that Smart Cards connected to a remote computer are available for use in your remote session. You can also connect serial ports, local disk drives, and supported Plug and Play devices to make them avail- able for use. Drives and supported devices can be selected by name or you can simply select the Drives and Supported Plug And Play Devices options to make all drives and devices available for use. Selecting Drives allows you to easily transfer fi les between the local and remote computer. Selecting Supported Plug And Play Devices allows you to work with supported devices, including media players and digital cameras.  Programs You can confi gure the execution of programs when a session starts from this tab. Select the Start The Following Program On Connection check box, and then set the program path or fi le name and the start folder for the program.  Experience You can select the connection speed and other network performance settings. For optimal performance, choose the connection speed you are using, such as Modem (56 Kbps) or LAN (10 Mbps or higher), and allow only bitmap caching. Other options you can allow include Desktop Background, Font Smoothing, Desktop Composition, Show Contents Of Window While Dragging, Menu And Window Animation, and Themes. If you select these additional check boxes, you cause additional processing on the remote system and additional network traffi c, which can slow down performance. Desktop Composition creates an enhanced Chapter 19 618 Chapter 19 Using Remote Desktop for Administration Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. desktop, providing that you’ve installed the Desktop Experience feature on the Terminal Services servers and clients that are using Windows Vista. Font Smooth- ing allows the client to pass through ClearType fonts, providing ClearType is enabled (which is the default setting). By default, Reconnect If Connection Is Dropped is selected. If the session is inter- rupted, the RDC will try to reconnect it automatically. Getting disconnected from a connection doesn’t stop processing. The session will go into a disconnected state and continue executing whatever processes the sessions was running.  Advanced You can select these options to control the use of server authentication and the Terminal Server Gateway feature. By default, the RDP client is confi gured to warn you if the authentication protocol fails and automatically detect TS Gate- way settings. When you click Connect, you are connected to the remote system. Enter your account password if prompted, and then click OK. If the connection is successful, you’ll see the Remote Desktop window on the selected computer, as shown in Figure 19-5, and you’ll be able to work with resources on the computer. In the case of a failed connection, check the information you provided and then try to connect again. Figure 19-5 A connection to a remote system. When you are working in full-screen mode, a connection bar is displayed at the top of the screen. On the left side of the connection bar is a push pin. If you click the push pin, it unpins the connection bar so that the bar disappears when you move the mouse away. To make the bar appear again, you would then need to point the mouse to the top part of the screen. On the right side of the connection bar are several other buttons. The Supporting Remote Desktop Connection Clients 619 Chapter 19 Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. fi rst button switches you to the local desktop. The second button switches between full- screen mode and tile display mode. The third button disconnects the remote session. Disconnecting from a session does not end a session. The session continues to run on the server, which uses resources and may prevent other users from connecting because only one console session and two virtual sessions are allowed. The proper way to end a session is to log off the remote computer just as you would a local computer. In the Remote Desktop Connection window, click Start, and then click the Shutdown Options button. On the shortcut menu, click Logoff. CAUTION ! Don’t try to log off the remote session by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete and clicking Logoff. Doing this will log you off the console session on your local client but still leave the remote session running on the terminal server. Running Remote Desktops Remote Desktops allows you to connect to a number of computers running Remote Desktop for Administration and to switch between them within one window. To start Remote Desktops, click Start, All Programs, Administrative Tools, Terminal Services, Remote Desktops, or type tsmmc.msc at the command prompt. You can then establish connections to the remote systems you want to work with. Right-click the Remote Desktops node in the console root, and then select Add New Connection. In the Add New Connection dialog box, enter the name or IP address of the computer to which you want to connect, as shown in Figure 19-6. Click Browse to display a list of domains and available computers in those domains. The Connection Name fi eld is fi lled in automatically for you based on the server name or IP address you entered. The Connect With /Admin Option check box controls whether you are connected to an admin session or a virtual session. By default, this check box is selected, meaning admin mode is used. Clear this check box to establish a virtual session with the remote computer. In the Logon Information area, type the user name that you want to use for logon. To set the domain, you can enter your user name in DOMAIN\USERNAME for- mat, such as ADATUM\WILLIAMS. Select the Allow Me To Save Credentials check box to enable automatic logon if desired. When you are fi nished setting connection options, click OK. An entry is added below Remote Desktops for the computer. Clicking this entry auto- matically connects to the remote system. Each confi gured connection can be selected and switched between without you having to log off each time. Following this, you could switch to a different remote system simply by clicking its entry in the left pane. To disconnect from a remote system, right-click the related entry in the left pane, and select Disconnect. CU O ! Chapter 19 620 Chapter 19 Using Remote Desktop for Administration Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Figure 19-6 Connecting to a remote system in Remote Desktops. Disconnecting from a session does not end a session. The session will go into a discon- nected state and continue executing whatever processes the session was running. The proper way to end a session is to log off the remote computer just as you would a local computer. In the right pane of the Remote Desktops window, click Start, and then click the Shutdown Options button. On the shortcut menu, click Logoff. When you connect to a remote system in Remote Desktops, the screen on the remote system fi lls the right pane, as shown in Figure 19-7. Before you make a connection, you should maximize the Remote Desktops window. If you don’t do this, you’ll end up with a small screen that cannot be resized. Figure 19-7 A remote connection. Supporting Remote Desktop Connection Clients 621 Chapter 19 Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. To change this behavior or confi gure additional options, right-click the related entry in the left pane of Remote Desktops, and select Properties. In the Properties dialog box, shown in Figure 19-8, you can change the connection options using the following tabs:  General You can set the connection options as discussed previously. You can also use this to change the connection mode and the credentials associated with the logon.  Screen Options You can choose a desktop size or custom size to use for the con- nection. The screen size options available depend on the size of the display on your local computer. In most cases, you’ll want to use the default option Expand To Fill MMC Result Pane.  Other You can confi gure the execution of programs when a session starts, man- age authentication security, and enable redirection of local drives when logged on to the remote computer. Drive redirection makes it easier to transfer fi les to and from the remote computer. Figure 19-8 Modify connection options. When you are fi nished confi guring the connections you want to use for administration, you should save the Remote Desktops confi guration. This ensures that the connections remain available if you exit the console. To save the options, press Ctrl+S or click File, Save. Chapter 19 622 Chapter 19 Using Remote Desktop for Administration Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Tracking Who’s Logged On When you deploy Terminal Services, you can use the Terminal Services Manager to view and manage logon sessions. With Remote Desktop for Administration, you can use this as well, but you typically don’t need all the additional options and details. A more basic way to keep track of who is logged on to a server is to use the QUSER com- mand. Type quser to see who is logged on to the system on which you are running the command prompt, or type quser /server:ServerName to see who is logged on to a remote server. Consider the following example: USERNAME SESSIONNAME ID STATE IDLE TIME LOGON TIME tedg rdp-tcp#1 1 Active . 3/16/2008 1:12 PM Wrstanek console 2 Active 1:34 3/16/2008 1:33 PM Here, there are two active sessions:  TEDG is logged on to an active RDP session. The session ID is 1, meaning it is Session 1.  WRSTANEK is logged on locally to the console. The session ID is 2, meaning it is Session 2. You can also use Task Manager to view user sessions. Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete, and then click Start Task Manager. In the Task Manager dialog box, click the Users tab, as shown in Figure 19-9. Similar details are shown as with the command line. The one useful addition is the name of the client machine from which the connection was established. Figure 19-9 View and manage remote sessions from Task Manager. Tracking Who’s Logged On 623 Chapter 19 Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. You can also use Task Manager to manage remote user sessions:  To disconnect a user session, select the user entry, click Disconnect, and then click Disconnect User when prompted to confi rm the action.  To log off a user, select the user entry, click Logoff, and then click Log Off User when prompted to confi rm the action. The difference between disconnecting a session and logging off a session is important. When you disconnect a session, the session goes into a disconnected state and contin- ues executing current processes. If you log off a user, you end that user’s session, clos- ing any applications the user was running and ending any foreground processes the person was running as well. A foreground process is a process being run by an active application as opposed to a background or batch process being run independently from the user session. Chapter 19 624 Chapter 19 Using Remote Desktop for Administration Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. PART 4 Managing Windows Server 2008 Networking and Print Services CHAPTER 20 Networking with TCP/IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627 CHAPTER 21 Managing TCP/IP Networking. . . . . . . . . . . . .657 CHAPTER 22 Managing DHCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685 CHAPTER 23 Architecting DNS Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . .743 CHAPTER 24 Implementing and Managing DNS . . . . . . . . .767 CHAPTER 25 Implementing and Maintaining WINS . . . . . 823 CHAPTER 26 Deploying Print Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841 CHAPTER 27 Managing and Maintaining Print Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879 CHAPTER 28 Deploying Terminal Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . .919 625 Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. [...]... TCP/IP Before discussing how these networking tools are used, we must fi rst look at the Windows Server 2008 features on which these tools rely, including: Network Discovery A feature of Windows Server 2008 that controls the ability to see other computers and devices Network Awareness A feature of Windows Server 2008 that reports changes in network connectivity and configuration Chapter 20 The network... backbone for Microsoft Windows networks It is required for internetwork communications and for accessing the Internet Before you can implement TCP/IP networking, you should understand IP addressing conventions, subnetting options, and name resolution techniques—all of which are covered in this chapter Navigating Networking in Windows Server 2008 The networking features in Windows Server 2008 are different... the network category, Windows Server 2008 automatically configures settings that turn discovery either on or off The On (Enabled) state means: The computer can discover other computers and devices on the network Other computers on the network can discover the computer Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark Navigating Networking in Windows Server 2008 629 The Off (Disabled)... happen automatically In the background, a computer process translates the computer name you type into an IP address that computers can understand Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 natively support three name-resolution systems: Domain Name System (DNS) Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) The sections that follow examine these services Domain Name System... techniques—all of which are covered in this chapter Navigating Networking in Windows Server 2008 The networking features in Windows Server 2008 are different from those in earlier releases of Windows Windows Server 2008 has a new suite of networking tools, including: Network Explorer Provides a central console for browsing computers and devices on the network Network And Sharing Center Provides a central... has 128-bit addresses and is the next generation version of IP When networking hardware is detected during installation of the operating system, both IPv4 and IPv6 are enabled by default in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista and you don’t need to install a separate component to enable support for IPv6 The modified IP architecture is referred to as the Next Generation TCP/IP stack Table 20-1 summarizes... Windows Server 2008 has a dual IP layer architecture in which both Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) are implemented and share common Transport and Frame layers 632 Chapter 20 Networking with TCP/IP Description Receive Window Auto Tuning Optimizes TCP transfers for the host receiving data by automatically managing the size of the memory buffer (the receive windows) ... configuration Chapter 20 The network discovery settings of the computer you are working with determine the computers and devices you can browse or view in Windows Server 2008 networking tools Discovery settings work in conjunction with a computer’s Windows Firewall to either block or allow the following: Discovery of network computers and devices Discovery of your computer by others Network discovery... reserved for experimental use Class D addresses begin with a number between 224 and 239 for the first octet Class E addresses begin with a number between 240 and 247 for the first octet Although Windows Server 2008 supports the use of Class D addresses, it does not support Class E addresses Chapter 20 Class A Networks Class A networks are designed for when you need a large number of hosts but only a...CHAPTER 20 Networking with TCP/IP Navigating Networking in Windows Server 2008 627 Using Subnets and Subnet Masks 639 Using TCP/IP 631 Getting and Using IPv4 Addresses 647 Understanding IPv4 Addressing . Networking in Windows Server 2008 The networking features in Windows Server 2008 are different from those in earlier releases of Windows. Windows Server 2008 has. fi rst look at the Windows Server 2008 features on which these tools rely, including:  Network Discovery A feature of Windows Server 2008 that controls