Is RemoteFX specifically designed to exclude redirection of USB HID devices like the mouse and kbd? Based on the articles I've read so far, I haven't seen anything the specifically discussing support for or against this. My use case is simple: I have one computer with a dual-headed graphics card, two mice and two keyboards attached. I'd like to have an RDP session open via the standard mstsc client in a window on the second monitor, so a second family member can easily sit down and check her email via the RDP session when another user is already using the main system. The second mouse and kbd should be dedicated to that session so that events are not shared with the console session.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff817578(WS.10).aspx
I've enabled the requisite GPOs per the article above, and I've set up the required registry key to expose these USB devices to mstsc. I am able to select those devices when configuring the client, however when I connect, no redirection actually occurs. No errors are displayed or logged to the event log.
Over the past few years I've solved this problem in various cumbersome ways, all of which involve running some flavor of linux in a VM set up to capture the mouse and kbd. That's computationally expensive and it seems this should be so simple with RemoteFX.... what am I missing?