RDS Image Quality; lossless or lossy?

Hello, is the Windows 2012 Server RDS desktop session lossless or lossy? In other words is the compressed desktop image/data of the remote desktop perfectly reconstructed from
the compressed data? I would like to use RDS for
a remote medical viewing task, but the desktop I am viewing must be perfectly replicated across multiple hi-resolution monitors. The image quality can not be lossy or degraded in any way. If I had the bandwidth LAN&WAN (which I do), is this possible with
Windows 2012 Server RDS...RemoteFX?
Thanks
Frank

Hi Frank,
You may set the RDSH server(s) to Lossless using the below group policy object:
Computer Configuration\ Administrative Templates\ Windows Components\ Remote Desktop Services\ Remote Desktop Session Host\  Remote Session Environment
Configure image quality for RemoteFX Adaptive Graphics     Enabled
Image quality: Lossless
Please see the article below for more information:
RemoteFX Adaptive Graphics in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rds/archive/2012/08/06/remotefx-adaptive-graphics-in-windows-server-2012-and-windows-8.aspx
Thanks.
-TP

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