Win 2003 Terminal Server Performance

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I had a windows 2000 terminal server that I was using for branch office
connectivity. Running Office applicaitons as well as Intenet Browser and a
coupld of systems for creating loan and new account documentation. I added a
new win 2k3 server with terminal services and tested it out. All seemed well
on the local subnet, but when I try to get to it from a remote subnet the
performance really dies. It takes forever to get the login screen up, and
repaints on the remote thin client take forever. I can log in locally and
all seems to be fine. The connection from the remote office to the term
server is a 10 MB fiber connection so bandwidth shouldn't be a problems. It
acutually seems to perform better with a VPN client over the internet than
over the 10 MB connection.

Any suggestions would be helpful

TIA

Lyle
 
Re: Win 2003 Terminal Server Performance

Hi, Lyle,

Are you using the additonal functionality enabled in RDP in WS03? Drive
redirection and increased color depth, for example, may be adding more
traffic to the WAN connection. Otherwise, I'd be looking for network
problems.

If this doesn't help, you may want to check with Support.

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Christa Anderson [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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"erding" <erding@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:511F912B-5BBB-4FD9-A193-95071479C84B@microsoft.com...
>I had a windows 2000 terminal server that I was using for branch office
> connectivity. Running Office applicaitons as well as Intenet Browser and
> a
> coupld of systems for creating loan and new account documentation. I
> added a
> new win 2k3 server with terminal services and tested it out. All seemed
> well
> on the local subnet, but when I try to get to it from a remote subnet the
> performance really dies. It takes forever to get the login screen up, and
> repaints on the remote thin client take forever. I can log in locally and
> all seems to be fine. The connection from the remote office to the term
> server is a 10 MB fiber connection so bandwidth shouldn't be a problems.
> It
> acutually seems to perform better with a VPN client over the internet than
> over the 10 MB connection.
>
> Any suggestions would be helpful
>
> TIA
>
> Lyle
 
Re: Win 2003 Terminal Server Performance

Thanks for the idea, but believe it or not, it was a problem with the switch
in the branch office. I wasn't noticing degraded performance on anything
other than the 2k3 terminal server until I moved some applications from a
win2k share to win2k3 and noticed that they were opening up as much as 5
times slower on the new 2k3 server. After some more testing found out that
the performance on the old server was slightly degraded on the 2k server
compared to another office with same WAN connections. Swapped out the swithc
and vioal everything is working fine again.

thanks again for the response.

"Christa Anderson [MSFT]" wrote:

> Hi, Lyle,
>
> Are you using the additonal functionality enabled in RDP in WS03? Drive
> redirection and increased color depth, for example, may be adding more
> traffic to the WAN connection. Otherwise, I'd be looking for network
> problems.
>
> If this doesn't help, you may want to check with Support.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Christa Anderson [MSFT]
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> http://blogs.msdn.com/ts
>
> "erding" <erding@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:511F912B-5BBB-4FD9-A193-95071479C84B@microsoft.com...
> >I had a windows 2000 terminal server that I was using for branch office
> > connectivity. Running Office applicaitons as well as Intenet Browser and
> > a
> > coupld of systems for creating loan and new account documentation. I
> > added a
> > new win 2k3 server with terminal services and tested it out. All seemed
> > well
> > on the local subnet, but when I try to get to it from a remote subnet the
> > performance really dies. It takes forever to get the login screen up, and
> > repaints on the remote thin client take forever. I can log in locally and
> > all seems to be fine. The connection from the remote office to the term
> > server is a 10 MB fiber connection so bandwidth shouldn't be a problems.
> > It
> > acutually seems to perform better with a VPN client over the internet than
> > over the 10 MB connection.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be helpful
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Lyle
>
 
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