How Can I change the Default Desktop Resolution for Remote Desktop Users?

1. Click the Remote Desktop icon on your PC - RDC dialog appears
2. Click the Options button - a set of tabs appears
3. Click on the Display tab and select the resolution
4. Connect to the remote computer - the remote screen resolution will be used next time

How are you deploying access to users?  Copy of .rdp files to the users desktops or copying the file to a share?  If it is a RDP file, create your connection, edit it and then change resolution and re-save it.  You should publish your apps as remote apps and this way, applications will be seamless.

I am looking at how to set it from the server end.
so all users have the same resolution.
without editing, several,  .rdp files

I would recommend publishing applications by using RD Web.

I can force the remote users to a 1024 x 768 resolution this way?

Is there a setting in Remote Desktop Services that sets the same resolution for all?

When you are running remote applications, applications will launch just as if you are running it locally on your computer (i.e. Excel) and you do not see the desktop of the RD server.  If you must publish remote desktop then publishing it as a remote app, you could force what resolution it should run as.  Refer to links below for more information:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rds/archive/2009/06/12/introducing-remoteapp-user-assignment.aspx
http://letstalktechtalk.blogspot.ca/2012/10/70-646-remote-desktop-services-in.html
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730673(v=ws.10).aspx

Running as an app isn't going to work in my environment.
folks need their desktops.

You could put a link on web page which users can launch which may contain something like this:

mstsc /v:rdpserver /h:768 /w:1024

You said your users have their applications on their desktop on the terminal server?  If that is the case, why don't you implement VDI?

I am really chasing down ones users desktop resolution on TS.

VDI is overkill in my environment. good thought though.

Ok.. explain how to implement
mstsc /v:rdpserver /h:768 /w:1024 via link?

Do I put that in the .rdp?
thanks

Create an RDP with all the settings you want.  Save it on your intranet/web server.  The link will point to the RDP file (i.e. http://intranet.mydomain.local/TSApp.rdp

How does this play into this?
mstsc /v:rdpserver /h:768 /w:1024

Thank You