Parallels RAS Best Practices Guide
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  • Introduction
  • Active Directory and Infrastructure Services Considerations
    • Active Directory
    • DNS
    • DHCP
    • File Services
  • Installation Procedures
    • Windows Server Requirements
    • Windows Server Roles & Features
  • Remote Access Configuration
    • Remote Desktop and Terminal Server Performance Settings
    • General Performance Related Settings
    • CPU Optimization
    • Optimizations
    • Configure RemoteFX
      • General Purpose RemoteFX Settings
        • Remote FX Settings for Windows Server 2008 R2
        • RemoteFX settings for Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2
        • RemoteFX Settings for Windows Workstations Running Remote PC Agents and Guest Agents
        • Configure RemoteFX Adaptive Graphics
        • Configure RemoteFX Lossless Graphics
        • Use the Hardware Default Graphics Adapter for all Remote Desktop Services Sessions
        • Remote FX USB Redirection
        • Enable Audio / Recording Redirection
        • Audio and Video Playback
        • Time Zone Redirection
        • Device and Resource Redirection
        • Remote Session Environment (H.264, RemoteFX, Adaptive Acceleration)
        • Windows Server 2008 R2 RemoteFX Compatibility
    • RDP Optimizations
      • For Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2
      • For Windows Server versions 2012/2012 R2/2016/2019
    • RDP Security
    • Locking Down TS/RDS Host
    • Disable Administrative Components
    • Antivirus Exclusions
  • Printer and Drive Mapping
    • Printer and Drive Mapping
    • Printing/Scanning Compression
  • Miscellaneous
    • Load Balancing
    • Groups
    • Filtering
    • Disable Application Monitoring
    • Server Reboots
    • Backups
    • Large File Upload / Download via Drive Redirection
    • Remove Gateway Browsing from Your LAN
    • Remove Self-Signed Certificate Error
    • Remote PCs
    • VDI
  • Parallels RAS User Portal
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  1. Remote Access Configuration

General Performance Related Settings

Whether you are using graphics intensive applications or streaming media across RDP, some configurations can be applied to provide performance benefits in your environment:

  • Display driver optimization – this is probably the most important component, particularly on the Windows CE platforms that tend to have a lot less CPU power than their desktop counterparts. The display "device driver interface" we provide in Windows CE uses only the basic graphics engine functions; where software acceleration is provided through emulation libraries, and hardware acceleration is limited to two-dimensional graphics operations. If at all possible, hardware acceleration should be used.

  • Ensure that your video and network card drivers are up to date based on the manufacturer’s recommendations.

  • Enable bitmap caching in your RDP session. This can result in some significant bandwidth savings and can also improve the refresh speed. However, this does not mean that graphics intensive applications will run at the same performance level as they would in a non-RDP session.

  • Understanding how font exchange works can also lead to some opportunities for performance improvements. Font exchanges occur between the client and server to determine which common system fonts are installed. The client notifies the Terminal Server of all installed system fonts to enable faster text rendering during an RDP session. When the Terminal Server knows what fonts the client has available, passing compressed fonts and Unicode character strings rather than larger bitmaps to the client can save network bandwidth

  • If network bandwidth is not as much of a concern, you can increase the frame rate on the client side via a registry modification.

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askperf/2009/04/17/terminal-services-and-graphically-intensive-applications/.

To learn how to increase the frame rate on the server side, see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2885213/frame-rate-is-limited-to-30-fps-in-windows-8-and-windows-server-2012-remote-sessions.

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