Can you scale the output of Terminal Server?
by Volker Weber
A friend is running an MS Access application on Windows Terminal Server 2003. All nice and dandy, but there is one problem: If he remotes into the server with a 17" WUXGA 1920 x 1200 display and Microsoft RDC, the application is just too tiny. Can you make it scale up? I don't see any options in RDC.
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In a remote desktop connection, I don't believe you can increase the resolution above that of the host VGA adapter; although you can downscale as necessary.
Your only hope might be if you run the Remote Desktop mstsc.exe with the -console switch. This allows the user to take over "session 0" on the remote machine...the console itself. This may allow them to increase the remote display, but I find it unlikely it will be higher than that of the host adapter.
To increase resolution higher would require MS to apply a virtual display adapter hardware device to users on terminal sessions, which is doesn't do.
Maybe MS Virtual Server is a better solution?
Mstsc.exe supports the option "smart sizing" when it's used in with RDP-files (not via GUI). Just add the line "smart sizing:i:1" to the end of the RDP-file.
Unfortunately this function works exactly invesrse to the feature that you are looking for. It can only the scale down(!) the window, it's not possible to scale up this way (at least I have not found out yet how to :-)).
I don't know if other RDP-Clients have a similar feature.
I don't know if this helps, but I have on our small business server under 'Accessories'->'Accessibility' a magnifier. Maybe this helps you at least a bit :-)
Maybe i missed something - mstsc.exe -> options -> display -> remote desktop size.
Magnus, this will increase the size of the window, but not the size of things inside the window.
I tried but haven't got it right now. But there must be some option available for resizing.
MS Access isn't exactly known for scalability. Try Oracle or DB2. Sorry, couldn't resist ;-)
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