Windows Remote Desktop (RDP, mstsc) with UI\'s

[NikolayLevchenko]

Hi everyone,

Has anyone used WinCC OA Desktop UI's with Windows Remote Desktop in production?

I'm thinking of virtualising the clients and using RDP. Anyone can flag any known problems with this?

[Gertjan van Schijndel]

I personally do not have production experience with this.
But I know that there are customers who use Desktop UI's with Microsoft Terminal Services or VMware Horizon View.

The only issue that I know of has been solved with the '-cacheDir' option, so not every user has to re-download some big files from the project.

[NikolayLevchenko]

Thanks a lot for your feedback

[RudiKreiner]

It basically works but we only use that in our engineering envirnoment. One thing that has caused us some problems is the following, if multiple users use the same local project.

Some user starts an UI, then doesn't log off but selects "change"user instead.
Then the next user logs on to a different account but can't start the console because the pmon port is occupied, and can't start the configured UI because the other one is still running with the same manager number.

To work around that, each user needs to configure a local project with a different name ( to be unique in C:\\ProgramData\\Siemens\\WinCC_OA\\pvssInst.conf) and a different pmon port in its config file.

[NikolayLevchenko]

Thanks for the pointers Rudi, I'll keep this in mind