Driver testing on MultiPoint server

NTDEV
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I read the announcement of Microsoft MultiPoint server 2010, which basically
is like terminal services with each session connected to a local GPU video
port.

I didn’t see MultiPoint server on MSDN and am wondering how a developer is
supposed to do development/testing for MultiPoint server? This especially
applied to anybody doing anything with video drivers.

Jan

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Jan Bottorff wrote:

I read the announcement of Microsoft MultiPoint server 2010, which
basically is like terminal services with each session connected to a
local GPU video port.

I didn’t see MultiPoint server on MSDN and am wondering how a
developer is supposed to do development/testing for MultiPoint server?
This especially applied to anybody doing anything with video drivers.

I’m not sure what would be different, from a developer’s point of view
It’s just Windows Server 2008 R2 plus Terminal Services, with a
monitoring application.

It would be nice to know how they are associating a mouse and keyboard
with a specific desktop. That’s something that has never been possible,
to my knowledge. And I couldn’t see anything about how sound is handled.

–
Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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I know nothing about this other than what I just read, but I’m guessing that the answer is that you can’t, unless you’re an OEM.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/multipoint/buy.aspx

mm

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“Tim Roberts” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
…
> It would be nice to know how they are associating a mouse and keyboard
> with a specific desktop. That’s something that has never been possible,
> to my knowledge. And I couldn’t see anything about how sound is handled.

Then you would be interested to know about existing “multiuser Windows”
products, like miniframe.com. They solve this riddle in a simple pragmatic
way.
Not sure if I can disclose this here, but have seen it working.

Regards,
– pa