RDP resolution issues from windows 10

Question

_{Monday, March 7, 2016 4:28 PM}

Hi,

We have bought a new laptop that has screen resolution 2560x1440 running Windows 10. Thats is fine, but the problem is when we do a RDP to a Windows Server 2003 / 2008 R2, then the resolution is extreme small. I know I can force it to have for example 1024x768 or something, but then it will not use the whole screen.I have the same problem with Remote Desktop Connection Manager.

It seems ok when we RDP to a Windows Server 2012, except that the menu bar at the bottom is very small, all other things seems ok.

Please advice.

/Regards Andreas

All replies (3)

_{Monday, March 7, 2016 7:48 PM ✅Answered}

The resolution on your desktop screen is running at 2k or 2560 x 1440. If you run an RDP session at 2k it will fill the screen, if you run at a lower resolution it only provides enough pixels to fill a small part of the screen which can be hard to see. You could change your screen resolution when you use RDP and then change it back when your done but that is messy.

The other workaround is to use “Smart-Sizing” the RDP Client.
There is a blog post on it here:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rds/2008/08/07/smart-sizing-the-ts-client/

Basically you save your connection as an RDP file and then add the following line to the .RDP file from notepad.

smart sizing:i:1

Another tool to look at is the Remote Desktop Connection manager
http://blogs.technet.com/b/rmilne/archive/2014/11/19/remote-desktop-connection-manager-download-rdcman-2-7.aspx

_{Monday, March 7, 2016 4:33 PM}

Hello

You just need to go to Display- Display configuration and reduce the size.

I think the default resolution size of win10 is too high for win2003/2008

Regards, Regin Ravi

_{Monday, March 7, 2016 4:39 PM}

Hi,

So what you say, its not possible to run 2560x1440 locally on the laptop, and do a RDP to a Win2003/2008 to have a "normal" resolution?

If I change the resolution locally on the laptop, its not the recommendd resolution, and things messy :)

/Regards Andreas