Simple to deploy, easy to manage Consistently rich experience, regardless of deployment model 1 Platform 1 Experience Pooled virtual machines Highest flexibility Personal virtual machinesDesktop sessions Lowest cost 3 Deployment choices 2

User Profile Disk maintains user personalization in pooled deployments Fair Share dynamically distributes bandwidth, CPU, and disk use Multiple storage options support direct- attached, network- attached, or storage area network (SAN) storage of virtual machines Easy deployment automates deploying and configuring server roles Unified administration uses a single, integrated console for management Streamlined management helps IT manage pooled and personal virtual machines EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT 3 RICH USER EXPERIENCE USB redirection enables access to locally attached devices in remote desktops RemoteFX for wide area network (WAN) dynamically detects network conditions and tunes experience Seamless experience supports multitouch, new Windows Experience, and Start menu integration Graphics processing unit (GPU) support for both physical and software GPUs BEST VALUE FOR VDI

4 Automated deployment and configuration Admin tools integrated in server manager Simplifies management of pooled and personal virtual machines Unified administration Remote Desktop Services installation wizard Streamlined management of virtual machines

EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT Set up a simple VDI deployment easily and quickly Use wizard-based setup and deployment for multiple scenarios Create virtual machines automatically with settings 5

EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT Provide one, integrated console for roles, servers, collections, users, and virtual machines Automate and manage at scale with Windows PowerShell Offer consistent publishing applications and desktops 6

EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT Use master images for personal and pooled virtual machines Avoid patch storms by queuing maintenance updates Accelerate system preparation, optimize logons, and provide automatic rollbacks 7

Maintain user personalization in pooled deployments Dynamically distribute bandwidth, CPU, and disk use Support direct, attached, network, or SAN storage of virtual machines 8 User Profile Disk Multiple storage options Fair Share High availability for all roles

BEST VALUE FOR VDI Enable personalization on pooled virtual machines or sessions Store user data and settings on a separate virtual hard disk Simplify deployment of lower- cost VDIs (pooled virtual machines and sessions) 9 ABC DEF

User Profile Disk with pooled virtual machine collections User Profile Disk with remote desktop session host collections Benefits Available with pooled virtual machinecollections and remote desktop sessionhost collections Stores all user settings and data Contains roaming user profile, FolderRedirection cache, and user environmentvirtualization Roams with user within collection Appears as a local disk and improvesapplication compatibility What should I deploy? User Profile Disk With every virtual machine pool and remote desktop session host collection User environment virtualization To apply roam settings across collections Folder Redirection To apply roaming user data across collections To centralize user data backup 10 BEST VALUE FOR VDI

Help ensure high performance across user virtual machines and sessions Apply to both sessions and virtual machines Dynamically distribute resources (bandwidth, CPU, and I/O) 11 BEST VALUE FOR VDI

Use direct-attached storage, network-attached storage, and clustered or SAN storage Provide configuration options to optimize for tiered storage Reduce storage cost while maximizing I/O operations per second 12 BEST VALUE FOR VDI

Storage Spaces Scale-out File Server cluster Hyper-V cluster Solid-state drives 15K disks 15K 10K disks 10K //CSV1/ Parent //CSV2/V Ms //CSV3 /UserDsk Sample configuration Server Message Block 3.0 Remote Desktop Virtualization Hosts File servers New in Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces Server Message Block 3.0 (SMB3) andHyper-V SMB support Cluster Storage Volume Scale-out File Server VDI storage configuration Direct-attached, central SMB, or central CSV / SAN Storage location of User Profile Disks, parent virtual hard disk, and virtual machines can be configured separately for each collection Optimum use of high I/O operations per second versus high volume storage 13 BEST VALUE FOR VDI

Improve with active/active broker Use Scale-out File Server and Hyper-V clustering Experience up to 32 nodes and 4,000 virtual machines per cluster with Hyper-V Further increase density by using Remote Desktop Session Host (greater than 2x compared to virtual machines) 14 BEST VALUE FOR VDI

Databas e Remote Desktop Connection Broker 15 Remote Desktop Web Access Remote Desktop Gateway Remote Desktop Licensing Remote Desktop Session Host Remote Desktop Virtualization Host Remote Desktop Web Access Remote Desktop Gateway Remote Desktop Virtualization Host Remote Desktop Session Host Remote Desktop Licensing Hyper-V cluster Web farm Cluster Remote Desktop Session Host farm Remote Desktop Connection Broker SQL Server Clustering Remote Desktop Connection Broker Active/active high availability mode forbrokers Scale-out File Server and resiliency Requires Microsoft SQL Server Automatic data migration from singleinstance to high availability New in Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Web Access Web farm BEST VALUE FOR VDI

Support multitouch, new Windows Experience user interface, and Start menu integration Support both physical and software GPUs Dynamically detect network conditions and tune experience Enable access to locally attached devices in remote desktops 16 RemoteFX for WAN USB redirection GPU support Seamless experience

Hardware and software GPUs Rich multimedia USB redirection Multitouch WAN acceleration Single sign-on Corporate LAN RemoteFX delivers a consistently rich user experience to users over LAN or WAN (regardless of deployment model) RICH USER EXPERIENCE 17 Internet or WAN

Crisp text always 18 DIRECTACCES Aero always on, rich, new Windows UI Adaptive graphics remoting based on content type RemoteApp programs integrate seamlessly with local desktop Reconnect feature for ease of movement across devices Ability to serve desktop apps to Windows RT slate users Full single sign-on Full multitouch and gesture remoting RICH USER EXPERIENCE

Text content 19 RICH USER EXPERIENCE Image content Video and animations

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Balances bandwidth and scale to give the best user experience Combines RemoteFX adaptive graphics with intelligent WAN-aware transports Automatic choice of TCP or secure UDP transport Detects and tunes graphics to network dynamically and automatically Integrated with Remote Desktop Gateway Delivers a great user experience beyond corporate networks Branch offices Wireless devices Work-from-home offices Roaming users on 3G/4G networks Benefits 21 RICH USER EXPERIENCE

Provides server-side video detection for other media types 22 RICH USER EXPERIENCE Uses dynamic codecs that have low bit rates for audio and video Supports redirection of Windows Media Decreases bandwidth consumption as much as 90 percent

RemoteFX USB Device Redirection Isochronous transfer Can be used with all scenarios Physical, virtual, or session desktop No GPU needed Isolates devices to the user’s session Uses a wide variety of USB peripherals,including those requiring isochronoustransfers 23 RICH USER EXPERIENCE

CPU-emulated DirectX 11 software GPU Provides 3-D capabilities to sessions and virtual machines at high scale Optimized for knowledge worker workloads such as Microsoft Office and web browsing Provides the highest scale for session host and VDI RemoteFX vGPU Provides a virtualized hardware-accelerated DirectX 11 GPU for VDI, optimized for: Best performance for 3-D graphics-intensive applications Best experience with full animations and transitions Best application compatibility, running as a console session in a virtual machine 24 RICH USER EXPERIENCE

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