Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Remote Desktop – Multiple monitors

This post is useful for those who:

  • Use Remote Desktop
  • Use Multiple monitors

If you are like me who remote’s into virtual machines or physical machines frequently, then here is a tip. When remotely logging  into machines, do you use multiple monitors ? Does the remote machine view scale across multiple monitors ? By default it does not. When you click Remote Desktop or MSTSC.exe, the below screen comes up without the option for multiple monitors.

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But, once you click options and then click on Display tab, there is an option to enable multiple monitors for your remote session.

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Click the checkbox “Use all my monitors for the remote session” and you can use multiple monitors for current remote session. Hope this helps !

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Windows Server 8 Part 2–VMware Tools


After installing Windows Server  8, I did not install the VMware tools immediately.  When I eventually did, I was no longer able to get into the Server.
It would boot fine, but come up with the a blank Windows 8 Server screen. So looks like Windows Server 8 does not like VMware tools yet. Or, there is an update for WorkStation 8 which supports Windows Server 8. My co-worker suggested that he might have had the same problem and mentioned about an update. So, I upgraded Workstation to 8.0.3 build-703057. Did that solve the problem ? Nope…It did  not.  Since, the VM boots properly and has issues displaying,  I enabled the “Accelerate 3D graphics” option in the Hardware Settings of the VM. That’s it….It did the trick and now, I can get to my VM. More later…

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