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  • Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:53 PMH8TSpeedStep Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    how is VDI supported on Hyper-V Server 2008 R2?  will the Remote desktop Virtualization Host server Agent run on this server edition?
     

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  • Thursday, November 05, 2009 10:01 PMj2 Global Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    I believe VDI is not supported by the free Hyper-V Server R2 edition.  You will have to use a standard, enterprise, or datacenter.  You can use Core installations of any of the three version, though.

     
  • Friday, November 06, 2009 9:33 AMLionel Chen - MSFTMSFT, ModeratorUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    Hello,

     

    The Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 supports Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), according to the following article:

     

    Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008: R2

    http://www.microsoft.com/hyper-v-server/en/us/r2.aspx

     

    As this product seems still in Release Candidate phase, and we don’t have the test environment, I cannot give you a detailed information on how to configure VDI on the Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. However, based on my understanding, the configurations of VDI on Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 should have no much differences with the Windows Server 2008 R2. It is an essential edition of Windows Server 2008 and provide only Hyper-V related features, from my knowledge.

     

    For more information about Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, there is a open discussion group focusing on this product. Please post your question here and the community members and engineers specialized on this product could give you further support:

     

    Discussions in Virtual Server

    http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.virtualserver&cat=en_US_4547053a-f94d-4ba8-8099-616e26d29a02&lang=en&cr=US

     

    Thanks for your cooperation.

     

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  • Friday, November 06, 2009 5:30 PMj2 Global Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    I stand corrected... hmmm... I'll hafta try that out now and see if I can get it to work.
     
  • Monday, November 09, 2009 9:12 AMLionel Chen - MSFTMSFT, ModeratorUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Hello,

     

    Thanks for your follow-up response and the strict attitude, J2. If you get any updates on the topic, please kindly share with us.

     

    H8TSpeedStep, please post back here and let us know the status of the issue now. We’re always glad to help you from the Windows Server side.

     

    Thanks again and wish you a nice new week.

     

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