Re: office assistant (office 2003)
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.
--
Patrick C. Rouse
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
Systems Consultant
Quest Software, Provision Networks Division
Virtual Client Solutions
http://www.provisionnetworks.com
"Ramon" wrote:
> 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@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
> news:2FD1101F-11D8-4502-A040-6EE304F6466A@microsoft.com...
> > 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/provision/2008/09/14/introducing-quest-software-eop/
> >
> > Another option is Expand Networks appliances that are placed at the end of
> > each corporate WAN link.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Patrick C. Rouse
> > Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
> > Systems Consultant
> > Quest Software, Provision Networks Division
> > Virtual Client Solutions
> > http://www.provisionnetworks.com
> >
> >
> > "Ramon" wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >>
> >>
>
>