Individual display scaling on multiple monitors

Update:

Here is how I'm working the issue now.  I have a large monitor in home office and work office:

• Work: 27" Apple Cinema Display:  2560x1440
• Home: 30" Dell LCD 2560x1600

I now have a SP3 dock in both locations.  Setup & Usage:

• Uncheck the option "Let me chose one scaling level for all my displays"  (under the screen resolution / "make text and other items larger or smaller")
• Find setting on slider that I like for each display then apply and forget
• Simply "Sign Out" each time I want to Un-dock or Re-dock (when using just table screen)

This is more workable but still a "pain" because in signing out you quit all open applications.  And that's the rub.  But at least one small step of manually re-selecting desired scale (in addition to the sign out) is eliminated.

But having a dock for each external monitor and workspace is really nice.  This dock is nicer than the dock for the SP2.

Bottom line:  We still want MS to fix this!

So I ended up getting a SP3. It's a great device, but this issue remains.

I'm plugged into an LG 27" via a PNY DisplayPortMini to HDMI adapter. My main screen looks great, but the SP3 screen has everything incredibly tiny and I haven't found a decent resolution that will make things the size I want while maintaining the 4:3 ratio of the recommended resolution. Changing the scaling effects the screen but not the toolbar, which remains tiny.

I'm solving this by making the external display the main display which gets all the taskbar functionality on a usable display. What I would love is for unplugging the external display to give me a larger desktop where the taskbar icons aren't so small to be near impossible to interact with via touch. Is that possible?

EDIT: As others noted, signing out fixes the issue.

This blows apart "the tablet that can replace your laptop" because with my laptop I can undock or unplug an external screen, go to a meeting, and read my laptop screen without issue and without signing out and closing everything I'm doing. When I return to my desk, I can plug my external monitor back in and everything is usable without signing out and closing everything. I frequently run GoToMeetings that may start at my desk and move to a conference room or vice versa. Signing out is not an option since that will end the meeting for me and all my participants.

Microsoft, please address this!!

Agree with Terry....

I am still looking for the true "Enterprise Fix"

Something I can resolve and scale out easily

All I have found....Point to a manual/hacked way

http://blogs.technet.com/b/mspfe/archive/2013/11/22/disabling-dpi-scaling-on-windows-8-1-the-enterprise-way.aspx

and

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mspfe/archive/2013/11/12/dpi-aware-managed-applications-on-windows-8-1.aspx

and

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2900023/en-us

Same issue for me.

The value proposition is about jumping into a desktop with ext monitor and then unplugging to go into a meeting with just the Surface Pro 3 - and then going back into the office and ext monitor.  This needs to happen fast and easy - with no extra steps - to make it fluid and useful.

If you always have to change scaling and/or log out and back in, it really inhibits the desire to use the device by jumping from one scenario to the other with real ease and fluidity.

Microsoft:  Please fix this issue.  It HAS to be an easy fix.  Just do it already.

Honestly I'd have hoped this had been resolved by now. I'm reading about users having the same problem on the Pro 3. I didn't ever get to t any of the suggests fixes because I returned my Pro 2 in a week. I really want to give the Pro 3 a chance but if this issue persists I'll just end up returning it again.

Microsoft, you should also train your Store employees on this. When I ask hem about connecting to an external monitor they look at me like I am speaking another language. This can only help with hardware returns.