3rd Party Resources for Terminal Services and Remote Desktop

(Links courtesy of Patrick Rouse's WorkThin.com website)

Acro Software Cute PDF Printer

Acro Software Cute PDF Printer - CutePDF Printer is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. CutePDF Printer installs itself as a "printer subsystem". This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to create perfect PDF documents - with just a push of a button! Easy-to-Install, Easy-to-Use, Professional Quality, Supports Win 98/Me/2000/XP.

Terminal Server Performance Tuning Whitepaper

Brian Madden's Terminal Server Performance Tuning Whitepaper.

Infostance AppliDis Free Seamless Windows Client

Infostance AppliDis Free Seamless Windows Client - This tool, allows Applications to run on the local device in "seamless" mode, which means with no difference with a usual local execution (no frame or desktop around the application). This tool is limited to 5 simultaneous connections by server.

Map RDP Printers

Printingsupport.com's printsubs.exe is a utility to map RDP Printers, instead of manually having to edit the Windows Registry and create a user defined inf file.

Terminal Server Printer Driver Redirection Wizard

Terminal Server Printer Driver Redirection Wizard: This tool can reduce terminal server printer redirection failures, and steps an administrator through the process of finding the drivers that failed to redirect on a terminal server, and automates the creation of a custom printer driver mapping file.

Windows Resource Kits

Resource Kit Utilities - You can download the Windows 2000 Resource Kit software tools listed on this page for free and install them on your computer. These utilities can help you streamline administrative tasks such as managing Active Directory™, administering security features, working with Group Policy and Terminal Services, automating application deployment, and other important jobs.

Resource Kit Tools - The Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools are a set of tools to help administrators streamline management tasks such as troubleshooting operating system issues, managing Active Directory®, configuring networking and security features, and automating application deployment.

Terminal Services Scaling Scripts & Utilities

Terminal Services Scaling Scripts & Utilities - This page provides a download of scalability scripts for the "smclient" scaling script utility for Windows® 2000 Terminal Services. It also includes an Excel spreadsheet to determine the correct registry value for achieving optimal scaling when a server is kernel address space limited.

Threadmaster

Threadmaster - Monitors Threads and handle high CPU utilization on a per application basis. This function is primarily indented for Terminal servers hosting multiple users. ThreadMaster can also be used when running multiple virtual machines on the same server, to limit each virtual machines CPU usage.

TSCmd Command Line Utility

TSCmd from Systemtools.com - A command-line utility to set terminal server user settings. All eighteen (18) terminal server settings can be set. Includes documentation in readme.txt file.

Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server Capacity and Scaling

Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server Capacity and Scaling - This white paper contains testing methodologies, results, analysis, and sizing guidelines for Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server.