Hi There, i have a situation where i have a client who has a graphic design workshop. they currently bought a bunch of dell workstations with intel i5 and i7 cores with nvidia quado fx gpu cards. now they want to give their user's the ability to do photoshop and illustrator work remotely, so far traditional rdp don't seem to work so well. however, we are wondering if we can use remote fx on these workstations. we tested using windows 2008r2 with nvidia card and hyper-v just to test the concept and windows 7 as a guest. so our client were happy on the test concept of remote fx. but now they want their users to access their workstations directly with remote fx via windows 7 as host on a real machine and not on hyper-v. any help is greatly appreciated.MattLok

Hi, Thanks for posting in Microsoft TechNet Forum. As we know, Microsoft RemoteFX is a new feature that is included in Windows Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1 (SP1). For your question, I would like to share the following answer with you: Q: Are you planning to introduce RemoteFX also for Windows 7 because there are many scenarios where the remote system is not a server but a high end workstation? A: RemoteFX has been designed as a Windows Server capability to support the growing demand for multi-user, media-rich centralized desktop environments. Windows 7 will be supported as a virtual guest OS under Hyper-V. Hope it helps. For more information, please kindly refer to the following link: Explaining Microsoft RemoteFX Alex Zhao TechNet Subscriber Support in forum. If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.comPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Hi Alex, Thank-you for the reply. As I mentioned in my post, yes we have already used windows 7 remote fx as a guest os under hyper-v which works great. But my client does not want to buy a server and does not want to use Windows server 2008 r2 just for the purpose of remote fx.. My client would prefer his staff to connect directly to their windows 7 workstations (non-virtualized) using remote fx. My client has made a good point as well as many others who are asking why Microsoft did not include remote fx for windows 7 natively. Most workstations (ie: Dell Precision workstations) include windows 7 and a high-end graphics card that remote fx can make use of the GPU, even more ironic, Dell will not support your system if you install windows 2008 r2 on the workstation since it is not part of their selling package. So i am hoping that maybe that there is remote fx on windows 7 natively but either under a different name or just a hidden feature. If there is any way to get the same function on windows 7 without having to use windows 2008 r2 that would be great. Any suggestions is most appreciated. thxMattLok

Hi, As far as I know, Microsoft RemoteFX is a new feature that is included in Windows Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1 (SP1). To use RemoteFX, the virtualization server must be running Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1, the virtual machine must be running Windows 7 Enterprise with SP1 or Windows 7 Ultimate with SP1, and the remote client computer must be running either Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 or Windows 7 with SP1. What’s New in Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Alex Zhao TechNet Subscriber Support in forum. If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.comPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

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