I am trying to decide between thin or fat clients for a customer. Each station has a USB credit card reader and a USB signature pad in addition to the standard keyboard and mouse, and occasionally uses USB storage. My question is, how does Windows Server, also trying to decide between Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012, handle the USB redirection for multiple sessions.
If I have 40 clients each with their own signature pad and card reader, will each USB device be locked to the individual session or will the host appear as having 40 of each device connected to it?
This would be session based virtualization locked down to essentially a kiosk mode. I am also trying to determine if this would be better to run in a VM or natively on the host. I would like the ability to leverage RemoteFX to provide better graphic support
for one department that renders schematics and drawings.
They are also looking to possibly utilize webcams at a future date, I was unable to determine from reading the new information about USB redirection in Server 2012. Am I correct in understanding that RemoteFX USB redirection (and thus webcams) are now supported
in Server 2012 session based Remote Desktop connections?
