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Windows Server 2012 R2 Administrator Cookbook

By : Jordan Krause
Book Image

Windows Server 2012 R2 Administrator Cookbook

By: Jordan Krause

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Windows Server 2012 R2 Administrator Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Disabling the redirection of local resources


One of the neat things about users connecting to virtual sessions within an RDS environment, especially when connecting in remotely, is local resource redirection. This feature enables the users to have access to things that are local to where they are sitting, from inside their virtual session, things such as the clipboard so that copy and paste functions will work between local computer and RDS session. Also things like drive redirection, so that you can save documents back and forth between the local hard drive and the RDS session. One of the most common uses of resource redirection is printers, so that users can print from inside their RDS session, which is sitting on a server in the corporate network, directly to a printer on the local network where they are connected. Short example: someone needing to print a document on a home printer.

This redirection technology can be very helpful, but is often not desirable from a security and policies...