logicwrath

I agree that there are issues related to USB devices and USB over Ethernet thin clients. However, I am not sure how these are related to the station mode / console mode issue I am speaking to specifically. The WMS hosts are intermittently not starting in station mode and the error I get is related to the graphics driver. Additionally, after a working a very long case with Microsoft on these issues MS is blaming the graphics driver and told me contact nVidia. nVidia did not respond to my queries. I need a known reliable graphics card for WMS 2012. I am hopeful this will solve the problem and the school can use the existing zero clients they purchased for this project. I have a WMS server where no USB clients and no USB over Ethernet clients are connected too and it still has the station mode / console mode issue.

I have deployed 3 matching Windows Multipoint 2012 servers and I have had a really hard time keeping them in station mode. We first set them up with onboard Intel HD 4000 graphics and had issues maintaining station mode reliably. Next we purchased nVidia Quadro 410 video cards and installed those. We are still having issues maintaining station mode reliably. Sometimes the 2 of the 3 units will stay in station mode for weeks and then something changes and it will stay in console mode. The only way to get back into station mode on the systems when they are reliably going into console mode is to delete the video card from device manager and reboot. It will then go into station mode until it is restarted again. It seems that at times moving the VGA cable between the disabled onboard video and the Quadro discrete graphics cards and/or adding a USB hub to the server with a keyboard and mouse will after some reboots bring the station back into a reliable console mode. We are using T200 zero clients with usb over ethernet connections. Does WMS 2012 work better having a USB hub with keyboard, mouse connected even though all the stations are using USB over ethernet? It seems that when I have a directly attached keyboard and mouse on a USB hub I get different results with the station mode/console mode issue. Finally, is anyone using a large deployment with WMPS 2012? Can you share with use reliable hardware recommendations. This is really frustrating for me. The teaching staff love the features of MPS but the reliability issues will keep me from setting this solution up at other schools. These servers are using HP SFF desktops with core i7 gen 3 CPUs.

I recently started using Windows Multipoint Server 2012. These are HP 6300 i7 workstations with onboard HD4000 graphics. There has been a lot of problems related the graphics card driver. I am currently using the Windows 8 driver. I can get the servers into station mode. I am having problems keeping them in station mode. Eventually when rebooting these servers will cause a driver error and I will need to reinstall the driver to get them back into station mode. 1. Is there a "best" driver to use for HD4000 that has less issues? 2. Is there a low-cost video card that does not have these problems? The Quadro line of graphics cards are very expensive. Anyone else having similar problems or have resolutions?