Description of an update for Remote Desktop Services BPA

In Windows management, best practices are guidelines that are considered the ideal way, under typical circumstances, to configure a server as defined by experts. Best practice violations, even critical violations, are not necessarily problematic. However, they indicate server configurations that can result in poor performance, poor reliability, unexpected conflicts, increased security risks, or other potential problems.

Topics described in this article can help you bring Remote Desktop Services (RDS) that are running on Windows Server 2008 R2 into compliance with best practices. This information will be most valuable to the following workgroups:

• Administrators who have completed a Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) scan of RDS.
• Administrators who want information about how to interpret and resolve BPA scan results. The results can be used to identify areas of RDS that are not compliance with best practices.

Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2 provides technologies that enable users to access Windows-based programs that are installed on a remote desktop server, or to access the full Windows desktop. With Remote Desktop Services, users can access a remote desktop server from a corporate network or from the Internet.

For more information about Remote Desktop Services, visit the following Microsoft Web site: For more information about Best Practices Analyzer, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

Update information

How to obtain this update

This update is available from the Microsoft Update Web site: The following files are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:
For more information about how to download Microsoft support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Microsoft scanned this file for viruses. Microsoft used the most current virus-detection software that was available on the date that the file was posted. The file is stored on security-enhanced servers that help prevent any unauthorized changes to the file.

Prerequisites

No prerequisites are required.

Restart requirement

You do not have to restart the computer after you apply this update.

Update replacement information

This update does not replace a previously released update.

File information

The global version of this hotfix installs files that have the attributes that are listed in the following tables. The dates and the times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The dates and the times for these files on your local computer are displayed in your local time together with your current daylight saving time (DST) bias. Additionally, the dates and the times may change when you perform certain operations on the files.

Windows Server 2008 R2 file information notes

• GDR service branches contain only those fixes that are widely released to address widespread, extremely important issues. LDR service branches contain hotfixes in addition to widely released fixes.
• The MANIFEST files (.manifest) and the MUM files (.mum) that are installed for each environment are listed separately in the "Additional file information for Windows Server 2008 R2" section. MUM and MANIFEST files, and the associated security catalog (.cat) files, are extremely important to maintain the state of the updated components. The security catalog files, for which the attributes are not listed, are signed with a Microsoft digital signature.

For all supported x64-based versions of Windows Server 2008 R2

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Additional file information

Additional file information for Windows Server 2008 R2

Additional files for all supported x64-based versions of Windows Server 2008 R2