Windows 10 22H2 · 1.0

This policy setting enables system administrators to change the graphics rendering for all Remote Desktop Services sessions. If you enable this policy setting, all Remote Desktop Services sessions use the hardware graphics renderer instead of the Microsoft Basic Render Driver as the default adapter. If you disable this policy setting, all Remote Desktop Services sessions use the Microsoft Basic Render Driver as the default adapter. If you do not configure this policy setting, Remote Desktop Services sessions on the RD Session Host server use the Microsoft Basic Render Driver as the default adapter. In all other cases, Remote Desktop Services sessions use the hardware graphics renderer by default. NOTE: The policy setting [removed: affects only the default ][added: enables load-balancing of ]graphics processing unit[added: s] (GPU) on a computer with more than one GPU installed.[removed: All additional GPUs are considered secondary adapters and used as hardware renderers.] The GPU configuration of the local session is not affected by this policy setting.

Specifies the authentication method that clients must use when attempting to connect to an RD Session Host server through an RD Gateway server. You can enforce this policy setting or you can allow users to overwrite this policy setting. By default, when you enable this policy setting, it is enforced. When this policy setting is enforced, users cannot override this setting, even if they select the "Use these RD Gateway server settings" option on the client. To allow users to overwrite this policy setting, select the "Allow users to change this setting" check box. When you do this, users can specify an alternate authentication method by configuring settings on the client, using an RDP file, or using an HTML script. If users do not specify an alternate authentication method, the authentication method that you specify in this policy setting is used by default. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the authentication method that is specified by the user is used, if one is specified. If an authentication method is not specified, the [removed: NTLM][added: Negotiate] protocol that is enabled on the client or a smart card can be used for authentication.

[added: ]This policy setting allows you to specify the type of Remote Desktop Services client access license (RDS CAL) that is required to connect to this RD Session Host server.[removed: ][added: ]You can use this policy setting to select one of [removed: two][added: three] licensing modes: Per User [removed: or][added: , Per Device and AAD] Per [removed: Device. ][added: User . ]Per User licensing mode requires that each user account connecting to this RD Session Host server have an RDS Per User [removed: CAL. ][added: CAL issued from an RD Licensing server. ]Per Device licensing mode requires that each device connecting to this RD Session Host server have an RDS Per Device [removed: CAL. ][added: CAL issued from an RD Licensing server. AAD Per User licensing mode requires that each user account connecting to this RD Session Host server have a service plan that supports RDS licenses assigned in AAD. ]If you enable this policy setting, the Remote Desktop licensing mode that you specify is honored by the Remote Desktop license [removed: server. ][added: server and RD Session Host. ]If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the licensing mode is not specified at the Group Policy level.[removed: ][added: ]