Configure RemoteFX Adaptive Graphics

RemoteFX supports two Group Policy settings that give administrators the flexibility to manually choose the best configuration for their scenario. Both policies are under this path: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Remote Desktop Services\Remote Desktop Session Host\Remote Session Environment.

The first policy setting is Configure image quality for RemoteFX Adaptive Graphics. This policy setting specifies the graphics quality for a remote session. Administrators can use this option to balance network bandwidth usage with graphics quality delivered.

The options are Medium (default), High, and Lossless. The Medium setting consumes the lowest amount of bandwidth, The High setting increases the image quality with a moderate increase in bandwidth consumption, while the Lossless setting uses lossless encoding, which preserves full color and resolution integrity but requires significant increase in bandwidth.

The second policy setting is Configure RemoteFX Adaptive Graphics. This policy setting allows the administrator to choose the encoding configuration to be optimized for server scalability or bandwidth usage. If you enable this policy setting, the RemoteFX experience could be set to one of the following options:

• Let the system choose the experience for the network condition

• Optimize for experience (balanced)

• Optimize to use minimum network bandwidth

By default, the system will choose the best experience based on available network bandwidth.