I'm new to the windows server world and have been asked to check if any of them use SPLA. How would I do this?
I checked to see if any of them run RDS services and one of the servers does as well, how can I check CALs?
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Need helping finding SPLA information.
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Route 2012 RDS Farm user to specific server
Server 2012
I have a server farm consisting of a broker, three rds servers etc
I want to have my domain groups/users control which users are allowed access to specific servers.
Example: a xxx_admin group will be routed to server 1; xxx_sales group will be routed to server 2 etc.
I'd like to do this all with domain user/group configuration.
Thanks for the help...still pretty new to this.
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Policy to logoff Active but Idle sessions after a set time does not work anymore.
I upgraded several Remote Desktop servers from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2016. One of the problems I have now is that the Group Policy settings that allowed me to logoff Active but Idle Remote Desktop sessions after a period of time online
no longer works. Interestingly, if they disconnect, the Group Policy setting that allows disconnected sessions to be logged off does work. Anyone with any suggestions?
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RDS - Desktop Flashing / Cursor randomly jumps around
Hey Together,
we have a customer with a RDS Terminalserver Farm with 4 2016 RDS Session Hosts located in Azure.
The customer is facing the issue that the desktop icons are flashing, like they are pressing f5 all the time.
Already tried the specific registry key here:
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1978620-rds-2016-desktop-icons-flickers-refreshes. that either did not work.
In addition the users are experiencing that the cursor sometimes start to randomly juming around.
For example, user is typing in the adress field of outlook, and the cursor jumps out of that field and the user has to click in it again to finish typing.
Probably the issue is related to the flickering and refreshing desktop, but not sure.
Best Regards,
Dominic
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Remote Desktop RDS - how to prefill RDP settings?
Good afternoon all;
I have an issue and not sure how to complete this.
2012 R2 for all servers
2 connection brokers in HA, 1 license server, 1 web access server, and 5 session hosts
There are 2 session collections on there. One of them is very old and was setup by someone else. this one works fine and when people click on the RDP full desktop icon ( Not a published Remote Desktop MSTSC Remoteapp). They get all settings prefilled correctly, RDP to the connection Broker farm name, with the RD gateway...it all works.
Put in a new session collection to 2 new session hosts that were put up for this purpose.
Everything works EXCEPT the prefilling of RDP settings, as of right now they come in blank.
How do I get this to be prefilled like the old session collection?
Every time I try to modify the deployment using
Set-RDsessionCollectionConfiguration -CollectionName XXXXX -CustomRdpProperty "full address:s:broker.example.com gatewayhostname:s:rdp.example.com" -ConnectionBroker ZZZZZZ
Whenever I try to apply this it looks like its going to apply but gives
You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression
"At line:1 char:1"
Can anyone help me get through this? or some other way to apply those settings? I was poking at this for hours today and can't find a reason why this is not applying.
I even tried copying the custom RDP session deployment configuration reg keys for the old one into the new session but that didn't work.
Goofball
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Printer redirection
Hello Expertz,
I have 1 (one) session host server and 10 users are connecting to that server using mstsc.
The problem here is printer redirection is not happening on the server from past 3 days. I have installed the new drivers but the issue still exists.
I can print locally but when I am on the server printer redirection is not happening. There are no group policies configured on the server. My server details windows 2016.
Please do let me know if you have any suggestions to resolve my issue.
Thanks
SM
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RDP CALs not being assigned even though available
hi,
our company network is using Windows 2016 Standard to serve Remote Desktop Sessions:
We've installed 1000 RDS Licenses and everything is working fine, except the License Manager. We have more than 200 devices connecting to the RDS servers, but the license manager has only 3 temporary and 16 static licenses assigned. I'm affraid that one day most of our clients will just stop working.
I can't see anything important in Event Log, and license diagnoser shows everything is ok - it's showing I have 1000 licenses overall and 984 free.
We are using Thin client Systems.
why its happen? can somebody give the solution on this.
snap attached for your information.
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Microsoft remote desktop 10 connect to the wrong environment
I am using Microsoft remote desktop connection client for mac version 2.1.1, and when I am connecting to the server I first input the address and then I can select the user from the second window, but when I use the Microsoft remote desktop 10 I always login in the wrong environment because it does not give me the option to choose the user and it always log in to the first account in the list. how can I achieve that in the new software? Thank you
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Server 2012 R2 Remote Desktop Services Deployment
Good day Everyone,
So, the agreement between my company and another was to use terminal services for their users to connect and use the published apps, which was fine to test out during the 60day trail period. Complications occurred when the white-listing of specific sites stopped working and we had to find ways around this, which meant that by the time things got sorted, the 60 day trail period you get when installing RDS role, expired.
The company doesn't want to purchase any CAL's for their 2/3 users (users is expecting to grow, hence terminal services) and requested that terminal services be removed for the time being. This is fine, because I can just uninstall the RDS role form server manager.
The problem is, even after uninstalling, RDS still appears in the quick access on the left in server manager. I am not an expert on RDS or terminal services, but i would expect it to be removed. But this isn't the real problem, the problem is, even after removing the role, windows still complains about there not being a license configured in the license manager, which means that users can't RDP to the computer. I've been searching the internet and cannot find a solution.
I already tried going to regedit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\WinStations\RDP-Tcp and selecting decimal and setting it to 3389.
My understanding is that server is for some reason still sending incoming rdp requests to the session host? And that it's checking for a license on the license manager since the temp license expired.. Not sure what the process is that it's following.
I just want to reinstate that default RDP, so that users can atleast connect to the machine again.
I saw a fix where a user said you must go to the session host config and create a new RDP-Tcp listener, but i have no session host server added, and cannot add one.
Any help would be appreciated please.
Thanks
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MsTsc ActiveX control hangs on application shutdown
Hello!
I use MsTsc ActiveX control to add RDP functionality to my WPF application. The control is hosted inside WinFormsHost control. My application hangs on shutdown from time to time. Here is the stacktrace of the hanging thread:
win32u!NtUserMsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx+0xcUSER32!RealMsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx+0x78
USER32!MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx+0x63
mstscax!PAL_System_CondWait+0xf2
mstscax!CTSThreadInternal::ThreadSignalWait+0x20
mstscax!CTSThread::internalThreadMsgLoop+0x20f
mstscax!CTSThread::internalThreadWaitForMultipleObjects+0x87
mstscax!CTSThread::ThreadWaitForMultipleObjects+0x1ab
mstscax!CTSThread::ThreadWaitForSingleObject+0x26
mstscax!CTSWin32CoreApi::SyncForceShutdownOnRCV+0x1d7
mstscax!CTSWin32CoreApi::DestroyWin32Core+0x108
mstscax!CMsTscAx::Terminate+0x167
mstscax!CMsTscAx::ProcessWindowMessage+0xd2
mstscax!ATL::CWindowImplBaseT<ATL::CWindow,ATL::CWinTraits<1442840576,0> >::WindowProc+0x6f
atlthunk!AtlThunk_0x00+0x36
USER32!_InternalCallWinProc+0x2b
USER32!UserCallWinProcCheckWow+0x3aa
USER32!CallWindowProcW+0x8d
System_Windows_Forms_ni+0x7cbc91
System_Windows_Forms_ni+0x7cbafc
System_Windows_Forms_ni+0x1b77a3
System_Windows_Forms_ni+0x1b7735
System_Windows_Forms_ni+0x1b7660
0xf177066
USER32!_InternalCallWinProc+0x2b
USER32!UserCallWinProcCheckWow+0x3aa
USER32!DispatchClientMessage+0xea
USER32!__fnDWORD+0x49
ntdll!KiUserCallbackDispatcher+0x4d
win32u!NtUserDestroyWindow+0xc
Is there a way to debug this issue? MsTsc version is 10.0.17134.
Regards,
Igor.
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RDS 2019 (but probably other versions as well): locked RDP session logs in after session reconnect
Hi. I'm running into some sort of security issue. Some of our customers actively lock their RDP session so obviously no-one can use it. It seems that when you lock your RDP session, and then get a reconnect to the server, and the RDP client reconnects, it automatically logs you in again, circumventing the lock.
Easy to abuse too: locked session? Just disconnect the network cable / wifi until the session starts reconnecting, and reconnect the cable and *poof* you are in.
Now some of this is prevented as we have some customers that have 2FA implemented on the RD Gateways, so when the session reconnects, you'll need to approve the 2FA. But not all customers have that.
Would there be any way to prevent this? Anyone else can confirm this?
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Windows Server 2012 R2 as either a Domain Controller and a Remote desktop Server
I need to configure a Windows Server 2012 R2 server as either a Domain Controller and a Remote desktop Server.
I know that the solution is deprecated and I remember that it was not possible on Windows Server 2012 before R2.
I read that Windows Server 2012 R2 allows configuring a single server with both roles, plus Remote Desktop Licensing.
Giver that there is no alternate solution, is there anything I should do in order to minimize possible problems?
Is there any guide I can use to perform the installation in the best way?
Regards
Mario
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Does it make sense to set up two Windows RD License Server within one domain?
Hi guys,<o:p></o:p>
We have the following situation in our IT environment. We set up multiple terminal servers, which are used by 50-60 end user of our company. They use them regularly. Every terminal server is a RD license server at the same time.
We also have 50-60 3-party-accounts from other companies, who are using one specific terminal server to get access to our IT environment. This guys are maintaining/repairing our systems, installing software updates, and so on. They are doing it irregular. That means, that there are some 3-party-users, who use this terminal server once a week, and some of them who use it once in 6 months. This terminal server is also a RD license server. <o:p></o:p>
Now we are looking forward to reduce the number of our RD license servers to one or two. The question is, whether we have to separate the RD license server into a RD license server for internal users (who are performing business processes) and RD license server for external users (who are maintaining and repairing our systems). The number of internal users is constantly growing and we are afraid, that at some point of time in the future all free RDS user CAL will be reserved by our internal users and in the case of a critical system failure one of our external users won't be able to access our environment and fix the problem (because there won't be any free RDS CAL).<o:p></o:p>
Does it make sense to set up two RD license server in our case or what would you advise? I would prefer only one RD license server if we could assign some fix number of RDS CAL to the terminal server our external users use (but I think it's not possible) or if we could be sure, that even in case we don't have sufficient number of RDS CAL for some reason our external users will be able to connect to our terminal server in a critical situation.<o:p></o:p>
Of course we have to take care that we buy new RDS user CAL every time we grow, but what if we forget to do it for some reason (for example in case that the responsible person is sick or leaved the company)?
Thanks in advance and best regards
Valdez
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RDS 2012 R2 - Pshell to disable the user consent for shadowing procedure
Hi,
is there some cmdlet to disable the user consent?
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Single Sign On through Remote Desktop Gateway
Hello,
I have a problem with my setup. If I connect via RDP to a termianlserver through a RDGW I must type the AD-Credentials two times.
One time for the RDGW and one time for the terminalserver.
I have configured the deployment setting of the RDGW to "Use RD Gateway credentials for remote computers" but it´s not working.
Both systems are Windows 2016 Server.
Have anyone an idea and can help me please?
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RDS App Sessions Don't Apply GPOs
I published an app via RDS. The app makes lots of internet calls using the default browser. I want the app to use Chrome instead of IE for this. I tried both of the following:
1. Use an app associations file that was exported from a user profile that was configured to use Chrome as the default browser. I used it for the appropriate GPO policy.
2. Added the Google Chrome adm to GPO and configured it to make Chrome the default browser.
Neither approach works. I restarted the RDS instance after making the changes, then used the rdweb endpoint to launch the app. The app still uses IE.
In my research on this I found a post that suggested using a logon script that invoked the Chrome command line with a "make default" switch. I don't want to use this approach, as it adds more time to the login process.
Any ideas?
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Error applying wildcard cert to RDS Web Access Role Service, event ID 20480 Failed to enumerate SSL certificate information
I am trying to apply a third-party wildcard cert to a RDS server farm. The .pfx is imported successfully for the RD Connection Broker roles, but gives an error "Could not configure the certificate on one or more servers..." when I apply it to RD Web Access. In the Event log, this generates event ID 20480 "Property page: Manage certificates update failed: due to Exception Failed to enumerate server SSL certificate information."
This is an internal farm, with no RD Gateway server, 1 Connection broker/Licensing/Web Access server, and three additional session hosts.
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RDS brokers in multiple regions - where to put SQL
Hi All,
I'm designing a multi-region RDS 2016 farm where 2 of the regions have very stable internet connections but the 3rd does suffer from intermittent internet outages. The office is on an island in the Carribean and the telco thinks nothing of cutting the connection to the island for a few hours for maintenance every so often so there's not much I can do about that. I also have to think about hurricanes and the odd ship that hits the undersea cable. As if things weren't difficult enough :)
Currently, all users at all offices are using PCs but we are introducing RDS with the long term plan to have everyone using RDS session-based desktops, also available externally. There are many reasons for this, including an ever-growing population of remote users.
The main user population is in the Carribean but our SQL databases for critical in-house applications, Exchange and a few other important apps run out of our main data centre located in a very stable environment but will all be moving to Azure (US) and O365 this year.
My preference would be to put all the RDS environment (brokers, GW, Web, RDSH etc) in our main data centre or Azure as our critical data and apps aren't accessible during an internet outage anyway but I've already lost that argument. So that's enough background.
To ensure users in the Carribean office can launch an RDS desktop session from a thin client when they have no internet connection, along with having local RDSH servers, I'll have to have the brokers in HA, one in the Carribean, the other in our main data centre. As this will require SQL, will the broker in the Carribean office still function should it not be able to communicate to the SQL DB in our main data centre? is the broker clever enough to cache the settings locally and continue to work or will it cease to handle any connections when the DB is unavailable?
If it will not function without a continuous connection to the DB, I guess my only option would be to have the SQL DB in HA group with both SQL servers servicing their local brokers. I'd really like having to avoid paying for 2 SQL licenses.
Thanks
Conor
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RemoteApp RDS2019 - splash screens stuck on client
Hi!
I am testing RDS 2019 with RemoteApp, and I have problems with startup splash screens. Each splash screen creates a button on the client’s taskbar and does not disappear from desktop and taskbar after the appearance of the main window. For example, I run three RemoteApp and I have three splash screens and three program windows on my desktop. And even if I close these windows, the splash screens will still remain on desktop and cannot be closed. This happens only in RemoteApp and does not occur with a remote desktop mode. I tried to recreate an RDS farm again, but it does not help.
This does not happen with all programs (having splash screen), but with many. At the same time, there were no such problems at RDS 2012R2/2016.
As RDCB and RDSH used Windows Server 2019 with latest cumulative update (2019-01). As clients used Windows 10 1709/1809 with same update.
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Profileimage Path Wrong, admin account behaving like a temporary one.
I have a asus laptop which was experiencing issues when signing into the admin account. It would just sign me into a temporary account and a error would pop up saying "We cant sign into your account".
But after a few restarts I managed to sign into the admin account but it was all wrong, my usual desktop icons were gone all my local files are now in the wrong place. All my documents are still accessible but I have to navigate through the c drive to the
user. I also noticed in registry editor that the Profileimagepath for the account was a temporary path but I'm sure that's wrong and it should be the profile user name. Im not sure whats gone wrong here but any solution to this problem would be very helpful!
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