I consider myself a pretty knowledgeable person when it comes to Terminal Services, but now and again even I get struck by a new piece of news! If you're a Terminal Services shop suffering with scroll bars when users attempt to create sessions that are too big for their desktops, consider Smart Sizing!

Here's the idea: Rather than maintaining the client's connection at the same effective resolution as the desktop, mandating scroll bars when the Terminal Services session is larger than the local desktop, with Smart Sizing you instead force the session size to be equal to the active window.

With the traditional method, your Terminal Services session looks like this:

With Smart Sizing, your Terminal Services session looks like this:

The downsize to this nifty-cool new capability is that it is only exposed though direct .RDP file manipulation. So, you won't be able to make it function through GUI tools alone. To enable Smart Sizing, add the line smart sizing:i:1 to any published RDP files. Voila!

Thanks to the Terminal Services Team Blog for this great info!