Optimize visual experience for Remote Desktop Service Sessions

This policy setting allows you to specify the visual experience that remote users receive in Remote Desktop Services sessions. Remote sessions on the remote computer are then optimized to support this visual experience.By default Remote Desktop Services sessions are optimized for rich multimedia such as applications that use Silverlight or Windows Presentation Foundation.If you enable this policy setting you must select the visual experience for which you want to optimize Remote Desktop Services sessions. You can select either Rich multimedia or Text.If you disable or do not configure this policy setting Remote Desktop Services sessions are optimized for rich multimedia.

Policy path: 

Windows Components\Remote Desktop Services\Remote Desktop Session Host\Remote Session Environment\RemoteFX for Windows Server 2008 R2

Scope: 

Machine

Supported on: 

Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 (and their subsequent Service Packs) only

Registry settings: 

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services!VisualExperiencePolicy

Filename: 

TerminalServer.admx

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