Using the Display Icon Select the Display icon to see all the displays attached to the remote computer. In this view, the remote monitors are represented by rectangles rather than thumbnail images. The position of each rectangle corresponds to the position configured for each monitor on the remote desktop. The primary monitor appears in the Screen Sharing window by default. To change your view, click on the rectangle that represents the monitor you wish to see. You can also select View All to show all the displays attached to the remote computer in the Screen Sharing window.

If the remote computer has no additional monitors attached, the Display icon will be inactive. Using the Displays Tab Select the Displays tab to see thumbnail images of all the displays attached to the remote computer. The position of each thumbnail image corresponds to the position configured for each display on the remote desktop.

The monitor currently displayed in the Screen Sharing tab will be highlighted. The primary monitor appears in the Screen Sharing window by default. To change your view, click on the thumbnail of the monitor you wish to see. You can also select View All to show all the displays attached to the remote computer in the Screen Sharing window. If the session is in grayscale mode, the remote monitors are represented by rectangles rather than thumbnail images. The position of each rectangle corresponds to the position configured for each monitor on the remote desktop. The refresh cycle of the thumbnail image is about three seconds in ideal conditions but can lag depending on connection speed and data transfer.

First published on CloudBlogs on Jul, 01 2009 NOTE: This is an old post. To learn about RDS in Windows Server 2016, please visit our Introduction: Multiple monitor support for Remote Desktop Services allows users to open a Remote Desktop connection expanded across all the monitors on the client computer regardless of the client monitor configuration. With this feature, the user can fully utilize all the monitors connected to the client computer for the Remote Desktop connection thereby providing extra desktop space and an almost seamless experience with the client desktop that is much improved over “Span mode”.

This feature will be part of Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 release and works for connections to another client machine (physical or VM), or a Remote Desktop Session Host. How to use Remote Desktop Multimon feature: To use this feature, you must: • Connect using the Remote Desktop Client 7.0 (mstsc.exe) available initially on Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2.

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft, which provides a user with a graphical interface to connect to another computer over a network connection. Default there is no option for the user to choose between the use of one or multiple monitors in a Microsoft RDS Farm based on Windows Server 2012(R2). Although there is an option to add/replace options in the RDP File content that is generated by the RD Web Access page.

• Enable Multimon using one of the three methods described below: a. Click “Use all monitors for the remote session” in the client (mstsc.exe) window. Use the “/multimon” switch on the mstsc.exe command line. Add “Use Multimon:i:1” to the RDP file.

• Connect to a computer running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. How does it look? Currently this feature displays the remote desktop on all the monitors available on the client computer.

It can handle any client monitor configuration supported by Windows. The following images show the Remote Desktop Multimon feature in various configurations: Display Settings UI inside a Remote Desktop session showing multiple monitors Remote Desktop Multimon Session with 5 monitors PowerPoint inside Remote Desktop session showing multiple monitors How is this different from “Span” mode? Download video status wa sudah terlalu lama sendiri kunto aji.

Span mode, introduced in Vista, allows the remote desktop to span across all monitors on the client as long as the monitors are arranged to form a rectangle. The remote session created when using span mode is still a single-monitor session. With multimon support, each monitor on the client machine is viewed as a distinct monitor in the remote session. Due to this fundamental difference, span mode has some restrictions that true multimon does not: 1. The primary monitor must be leftmost. The set of monitors must form a rectangle (i.e. Identical vertical resolution, and lined up in exact straight line).

The total of the resolutions must be below 4096x2048 (ex. 1600x1200+1600x1200 = 3200x1200). For these reasons, all monitor configurations shown below are valid for Remote Desktop multimon, whereas most of them are not valid for span mode: With true multimon support, the client-side monitors can be arranged in any order and can be of any resolution. Since a span mode remote session is essentially a single-monitor session, if a window in the remote desktop is maximized, it spans across all the monitors. With true multimon support, a window will only maximize to the extent of the containing monitor. If an application queries for the number of monitors inside a span-mode session, it will find only one monitor, whereas it will find as many monitors as are actually present on the client system when using true multimon RDP.