Win 2003 Terminal Server Performance

[Guest erding]

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

[Guest Christa Anderson [MSFT]]

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.

 

--

Regards,

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

[Guest erding]

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

>