Set display scaling when using Remote Desktop from Surface Pro

I use my Surface Pro to remote desktop to various other machines. When I do, the display is crazy small because Surface Pro uses 150% scaling for it's local Windows display, but this is not the default for the machines I'm remoting into. But I can't set the scaling when I'm remoted to the other machine, because this setting can't be changed from a remote session.

Is there any convenient way to configure remote Windows machines to use the 150% display scaling when remoted into from the Surface Pro?

RationalGeek

Posted 2013-04-02T20:37:25.847

Reputation: 579

@StormeHawke Khaled's steps did not work for me, going from surface 4/win10 rdp to a win 7 system. Waah! – Jonesome Reinstate Monica – 2016-01-25T01:32:37.390

Did you ever figure out a way to do this? – Christopher Berman – 2013-12-19T19:54:05.760

Nope sorry. I never did. – RationalGeek – 2013-12-19T22:15:26.250

Khaled's solution worked for me. You just set up your connection, connect, then right click on it and click "Full Screen". No additional setup was needed. I'm quite relieved as I was about ready to take my laptop back since one of the two main purposes I bought it for (Connecting to my computer in the office and photo editing) was just not working out – StormeHawke – 2014-03-22T03:26:00.080

Answers

I have faced the same issue, and you'll love this solution! Download and install Remote Desktop Connection Manager 2.2 on your surface pro or surface pro 2, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=44989 -- RDP from this application and see how it works! Magic!

You can even view in Full screen, I have noticed that you need to install an update on all remote machines to be able to change the DPI using MSTSC.exe, but with Remote desktop connection manager 2.2, things just work without any update!

Khaled Salameh

Posted 2013-04-02T20:37:25.847

Reputation: 69

@codeulike Going from Surface 4/Win10 to Win7-SP1, the steps above and in blog do NOT result in the fix.... ack! – Jonesome Reinstate Monica – 2016-01-25T01:31:57.037

Your link no longer works – bfrguci – 2016-04-14T21:14:40.393

Apparently since they've updated Remote Desktop Connection Manager past version 2.2, this doesn't work anymore. If you have version 2.2, though, it should still work. – Ben Richards – 2016-09-02T12:56:48.870

Yep, Remote Desktop Connection Manager 2.2 did the trick for me. Wrote up a blog post with screenshots: http://www.codeulike.com/2014/05/remote-desktop-on-high-dpi-screens.html

– codeulike – 2014-05-29T15:31:09.750

The DPI synchronization is available between RDP 8.1 clients and servers only. This is described in this blog post from MSDN.

MikeJM

Posted 2013-04-02T20:37:25.847

Reputation: 21

DPI sync is nice and all, but all that was really necessary was to allow zooming in: a client-side feature that would have worked with ALL servers. Better make it a bit ugly than completely useless with Server 2008 R2... – RomanSt – 2014-08-07T02:17:26.267

I have managed to connect RDP session with selected session resolution and scaling using display settings for session in this app: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/microsoft-remote-desktop-preview/9nblggh30h88

zdzich

Posted 2013-04-02T20:37:25.847

Reputation: 13