Saturday, February 20, 2016

Remote Desktop from Surface or High DPI Devices

So, I'm loving my new Surface 3 that I bought for my sister.  As soon as I see a good deal on the Surface Pro 4 I'm buying it for myself and I'll finally send this off to her.  In the mean time, the one problem I really had was how tiny everything was when I would log into my workstation at work (Yeah, it has 32 GB RAM, NBD).

Supposedly, this is taken care of according to this Microsoft blog post.  I may have to email him, because I didn't find this very helpful at all.

I did however find a workaround for my issue, because I can't code when the text is too small.  You have to scroll down in this discussion, but I'll copy and paste the comment I found very useful from JohnKovalcik.

Hi John,
I had to reply to your agreement here - with some thoughts.  I researched the heck out of this - as I bought one for one of the executives in our co. (I manage the I.T.).  and wanted to find a solution for the issue to expedite my own acquisition of one of these!  Well - didn't find a 'true' fix - but picked up an SP3 anyway as I found a work around that I've deemed "acceptable" - for me anyway - not ideal.  Basically - we access a couple applications through rdp - WHEN I want to use these on the SP3 - I just change the resolution of the desktop to 1366 X 768 or 1360 x 768.   Then the remote screen is 'normal' - of course exiting you get desktop icons the size of volkswagon beetles and need to change it back to the awesome high resolution of the device.  Anyway - just a thought.  I like the SP3 enough to do that - it's speed, power, features and sleek design in my opinion really is a plausible replacement for a business grade laptop.    It would benefit MSFT to provide an update that would handle this though - as many businesses run rdp applications - shame they can't render the display to whatever the remote server hosting the remote app is.  BTW - another thought - I had a second screen plugged into the SP3 USB port -  and the rdp display mirrored the second display - normal size fonts - but then again - would you really carry around a second display?!  However if you are working in an office/home office - perhaps that's an option - just plug it in and work away.  Hope this helps some.

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