Extending Terminal Services And Hyper-V VDI In Windows 7

Christa AndersonProgram Manager IIMicrosoft Corporation

Niraj AgarwalaSenior Test LeadMicrosoft Corporation

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Agenda

What is presentation virtualization and why should you care?

Goals for presentation virtualization and VDI in Windows 7

Customizing the presentation virtualization platform Customizing the user interface Adding new content to the workspace Extending connection brokering Adding functionality to the session

management UI Additional resources

What Is Presentation Virtualization?Why should you care? Runs an application or desktop on one

computer and presents it on another Virtualizing presentation can

Enable telecommuting and mobile workers Speed some application performance Reduce application management costs

What Is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure?

VDI enables a centralized desktop strategy Gives users a personalized or temporary

full desktop Lets administrators store and maintain user

work areas in the data center Presents UI via a remote display protocol

such as RDP

Terminal Server

TS Licensing

RDP

Terminal Server

TSV

Session Broker

TS Gateway

Client

TS Web Access

The terminal server runs applicationslocally and displays them on the clientcomputer via display protocol. Eachuser has a separate session independent of other users.

Terminal Services Virtualization

TS Licensing

RDP

Terminal Server

TSV

Session BrokerTS Web Access

TS Gateway

Client

The TS Virtualization server hosts the virtual desktops using Hyper-V.

Terminal Server Web Access

TS Licensing

RDP

Terminal Server

TSV

Session BrokerTS Web Access

TS Gateway

Client

The TS Web Access server displaysremote resources (VDI and TS) ina Web browser.

Terminal Services Session Broker

TS Licensing

RDP

Terminal Server

TSV

Session Broker

TS Gateway

Client

TS Session Broker sends incomingconnection requests to the rightendpoint, depending on load balancingrules, current connections, and thedesired endpoint. The TS Session Brokeralso runs the publishing service toaggregate the remote resources.

TS Web Access

Terminal Services Gateway

TS Licensing

RDP

Terminal Server

TSV

Session Broker

TS Gateway

Client

The TS Gateway server providessecure remote access to the networkfrom the Internet.

TS Web Access

Terminal Serivices Licensing

TS Licensing

RDP

Terminal Server

TSV

Session Broker

TS Gateway

Client

The TS Licensing Server manages distribution and tracking of the TSCALs required to access remote resources.

TS Web Access

Goals Of Presentation Virtualization In Win7

Support both Terminal Services and VDI Provide unified user experience

and management model Provide API for partners

to extend the model Change the look and feel of the user workspace Add additional resources to user workspace Enhance connection brokering logic Add new functionality to the management UI

Displaying Remote Resources

Terminal Server

TSV

TS Web Access

Publishing Service

Plug-in

Plug-inFe

ed

Session Broker

Win7 Client

VMVM

VMVM

RemoteAppRemoteApp

RemoteAppRemoteApp

“Workspaces”

Windows Vista

Windows XP

Customizing The User Interface

You can customize the standard look and feel for remote resource presentation in various ways, including Visually sorting RemoteApp

and virtual desktop icons Branding for your customers Filtering resource display Creating a Silverlight-based UI

Customizing The User Interface

Niraj AgarwalaSenior Test LeadPHDV

demo

Adding New Content

Out of the box, the workspace delivers RemoteApps and VDI desktops. You could extend this to include App-V applications streamed to the client Resources delivered using additional protocols Connections to physical desktops

Adding New Content To The Workspace

Niraj AgarwalaSenior Test LeadPHDV

demo

Connection Brokering In Windows 7

Connection brokering was introduced in Windows Server 2008 Brokered connections to terminal servers Supported extensibility API for

replacing connection brokering logic Connection Brokering is enhanced in Win7

Brokers connections to both terminal servers and VMs

Adds new extensibility to enhance brokering logic, not replace it

Connection Brokering Architecture

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TS Redirector

TSSession Broker

Client

TSVTSVTSVVM

TSVTSVTSVVM

Hyper-V

Hyper-V1.Connect

2.Get Target 4.Return Target

3.Prepare/Start VM

5.RedirectTo VM

6.Connect to VM

Session Management Tools

Terminal Services Manager shows current sessions on terminal server View process and user information Interact with user sessions Uses WTS API

Typical Connection Management Sequence

1. Get handle to the remote serverWTSOpenServer

2. Use the handle to the server to enumerate its sessions and name, ID and state of eachWTSEnumerateSessions

3. Query information about specific sessions through the session IDWTSQuerySessionInformation

4. Use the session ID to take actions on specific sessions, for example:

WTSDisconnectSession WTSLogoffSession WTSSendMessage

Extending Session Management

Using the new extended API you can manage virtual machine connections as well Typical connection sequence does not change Uses “extended” APIs to include virtual

machine connection data Organizes connections so that both VM and

session can be identified New APIs map closely to existing ones

WTSOpenServerEx WTSEnumerateSessionsEx WTSShutdownSystemEx WTSEnumerateProcessesEx WTSTerminateProcessEx

Additional Resources

Terminal Server Home Page http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/

ts-product-home.aspx Terminal Services Team Blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/ Terminal Services Newsgroup

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/community/newsgroups/topics/termsvcs.mspx?mfr=true

Terminal Services Development Documentation http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa383494(VS

.85).aspx

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