I've had a read through the case notes and it wasn't the testing in VMware vs HyperV that was the difference it was that you and the engineer tested with multimonitors and everyone else tested without spanning multi-monitors. VMware has the same issue as it is an MS restriction not Hypervisor.
Thanks for pointing the KB out. Unfortunately, I don't have a VMware environment to try out. This was being brought up to me by support as they were having issues replicating my issue (aero glass effect) and eventually they found out that their test environment was in VMware where the Aero glass effect shows up properly. You can refer to Service Request # 1057833 for the full log of this.
Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008 did not support Aero Glass remoting for sessions. This is now supported in Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services, but is incompatible with multi-monitor support
(Yeah, I know that says 2008r2 and not Win7 but the rules are normally interchangable as they are both RDP7.x)
What did you do to get it working in VMware and are you sure it was dual monitor as I tested it here just now as I thought dual screen worked on my VMware with AeroGlass but I found it is not currently working with dual screens and works perfectly on one.
izkm
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December 14th, 2012 10:00
This is the solution
Reduce the Color Depth on the thin client from 32bit to 16bit
or
Create a larger RAM Drive, 96MB instead of 32MB
Thanks, Marc
DELL-Andrew W1
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November 30th, 2012 13:00
Hi Cyril,
I've had a read through the case notes and it wasn't the testing in VMware vs HyperV that was the difference it was that you and the engineer tested with multimonitors and everyone else tested without spanning multi-monitors. VMware has the same issue as it is an MS restriction not Hypervisor.
I'll email you through the case.
Thanks, Andrew.
kcy43ccwc
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November 30th, 2012 13:00
Marc,
Thanks for pointing the KB out. Unfortunately, I don't have a VMware environment to try out. This was being brought up to me by support as they were having issues replicating my issue (aero glass effect) and eventually they found out that their test environment was in VMware where the Aero glass effect shows up properly. You can refer to Service Request # 1057833 for the full log of this.
Regards,
Cyril
DELL-Andrew W1
378 Posts
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November 30th, 2012 13:00
Hi Cyril,
I was looking into Marc's issue when I stumbled across your post here.
Just so you know, microsoft state that aeroglass does not work with multimonitor. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969084 in rdp7
Aero Glass support
Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008 did not support Aero Glass remoting for sessions. This is now supported in Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services, but is incompatible with multi-monitor support
(Yeah, I know that says 2008r2 and not Win7 but the rules are normally interchangable as they are both RDP7.x)
What did you do to get it working in VMware and are you sure it was dual monitor as I tested it here just now as I thought dual screen worked on my VMware with AeroGlass but I found it is not currently working with dual screens and works perfectly on one.
Thanks, Andrew.
P.S Sorry for highjacking Marc's thread.