Windows Multipoint

• Connect local and LAN stations
• Simplified setup for non-technical users
• Monitor and interact with student desktops

• Stations
  • Montitor
  • Keyboard
  • Mouse

• Station Types
  • Direct Video connect
    • Multiport video cards

• • USB Zero CLient
    • No operating system on the device. Hardware driver tells the computer there is a monitor attached.

• • USB-LAN Zero Client
    • USB server, but actually connected over the network

• • Legacy Computers over LAN
    • Old computers, just to connect to the server
    • Windows ThinPC

• • Thin client over LAN
    • Linux based
    • Windows embedded

srcshell(2011)/wmsshell(2012)

• carves up monitors to be local remote desktop sessions

• Remote Desktop Protocol

• Instead of over network connection, local loopback to the host computer

• 2012 changes it a little, so that instad of RDP for Direct video stations, there is a direct framebuffer for better video performance.

• Desktop experience
  • Windows 7 desktop(2011), windows 8(2012)

Multippint manager

• View near-realtime thumbnails of all sessions
• Block individual stations, or all of them
• project one station to the others

• take control, chat in 2012
• disk protection in 2012