Windows 2000 Terminal Server RDP Question

[keenboy]

Hi Guys,

I have set up a Windows 2000 Terminal Server SP4 which works fine. One annoyance I have at the moment is the 8bit colour depth that the RDP clients receive. Most applications look a bit odd.

Windows 2000 Terminal Server uses RDP Version 5.0 which to my knowledge restricts RDP clients to 8bit (256 Colours) Colour depth. RDP Version 5.1 uses 24bit colour depth (to my knowledge) and 5.2 - 6.0 even more.....32bit I think Windows 2003 server uses.

My question is.......

Are we able to update the RDP version from 5.0 to 5.1 on Windows 2000 Terminal Server? I would hope I can because at the moment the clients are pretty useless.

Thanks,

[killerb255]

You probably don't want to hear this (especially after three months of your topic being unanswered), but Windows 2000 has NO support from Microsoft and little-to-no support from other vendors either.

Depending on the specs of the server itself, it may be best to just upgrade to Server 2003.  Server 2008 may be a stretch, though.

[oneit]

Just so you know this is not possible with Server 2000. You are limited to 256 colours.