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So I noticed some good info coming out of the MSDN Terminal Server blog, like:Introducing Remote Desktop Connection Manager and I was reasonably curious if the RDS Brokering would allow you to attach or add Physical devices like BladePC’s or BladeWS’s to the Virtual Pooling of resources available for users to RDP in to. So I figured the best way was to dive in and give it a shot?

So it seems like there are certainly no issues with installing Win 2008 R2 in a VM based on the VMware Workstation 6.5, remembering that there is no longer a 32 bit version. So here is some of what I found with the install:

Page 17 shows what the Web Access page looks
like (needs to be HTTPS – self signed cert is fine)

At this point I was able to successfully enter the details of my Windows 7 Laptop in the “Connect To” field and then the session on the WIN2008 Server was able to bring up an RDP7 (6.1) session

To double-check I’d need to access this web site remotely from another machine and check that works? But to be honest I was mainly after just figuring out  if I could attach physical units so I’ll leave that for now.

Details of what can be configured under the RDS

Page 25 shows:
Trying to specify devices that can be connected to – and it quickly
becomes apparent that you can only add Virtual Devices to the
mix – I now need to add Hyper-V to this Server (if it’ll let me?) and
then I should be able to add VM’s to the pool for assignment

Bottom line – to add additional devices apart from virtual VM’s
this would quite likely need a hack? to effect this and so here is
where my investigation ends for now.

So this is all of the post for now and I’ll try and place
a link here for the full document
(1.9Mb)

written by dcaddick