Hi,

Today I noticed one thinclient was continously using about 500k of
bandwidth. The problem was the office assistent. As soon as I disabled this
my bandwidth was normal...around 20k.
Is this a known problem? Can't read much about it on the net.

Ramon

Anything with animation uses lots of bandwidth, but this feature is disabled
by default when Office XP, 2003 & 2007 is installed on TS. If you want
something that reduces bandwidth you might want to look at our enhancements
for the Microsoft RDP Protocol.


http://blogs.inside.quest.com/provis...-software-eop/

Another option is Expand Networks appliances that are placed at the end of
each corporate WAN link.

Patrick,

Thx for your answer. I don't know why but the assistant is installed on my
terminalservers. I will deinstall it. We already use in our TS environment
(8 TS Servers for 80 branch locations) a packeteer to manage bandwidth.

Ramon


"Patrick Rouse" <PatrickRouse> schreef in bericht
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That's great, as it's important to guarantee enough bandwidth for your
critical services. what our product does is to replace the Microsoft TS
display driver with our own that draws compresses graphics and draws them
more smoothly. we are not doing QoS, but rather reducing the bandwidth
requirements for displaying RDP content, sometimes between 500 and 2000
percent so graphical content and animation can be displayed without consuming
enormous amounts of bandwidth. I did a test last week where using RDP 6.1
over a WAN link it took 60 seconds to render to content of www.live.com,
whereas with our RDP Graphics acceleration it took about 2 seconds. instead
of the graphics being slowly drawn from left to right, top to bottom in 64x64
pixel squares ours displays the content smoothly without consuming enormous
amounts of bandwidth. the URL I posted showed demo videos of the comparison.

I would still recommend uninstalling the Office Assistant, as this is an
unnecessary item.

Hmm..this sounds very great. I will have a look at your solution and watch
the demo. Thx


"Patrick Rouse" <PatrickRouse> schreef in bericht
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Patrick,

Is it possible to install a trial version on our own network?

Ramon


"Patrick Rouse" <PatrickRouse> schreef in bericht
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Sure. Contact me at PatrickDotRouseAtQuestDotCom and we'll get you the bits.

You can go to provision's website, register and download the software
and get the trial key.

Jeff Pitsch
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services


Ramon wrote:
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The RDP Graphics acceleration bits are not currently part of the Virtual
Access Suite download, which is why I gave out my email address so we can get
in contact and I can get you the correct files.

Thanks Jeff.