RDP Best Practices
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8/28/2008
This section provides general best practices for RDP. For security-specific best practices, see RDP Security.
Plug-in should spin a worker thread to perform all actions that require Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML)
Using MSXML objects from within virtual channel plug-ins that are on the same thread that RDP uses to call into a virtual channel can cause system instability. A plug-in should spin a worker thread that performs all necessary actions that require MSXML.