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Users CAL Pool for RDS

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Hello,
I have a SPLA contract with RDS licenses per user. I have to declare 1 license each time a user logs on to the service.
I would like to know if I can do the following: declare a license pool for a specific AD group. For example: 10 users in an AD group with the right to 4 simultaneous licenses. I can create my 10 users, but declare a maximum of 4 licenses actually used per month.

Is it possible to do this via the RDS license manager and AD groups?

Thank you

DDA and group policy with a GPU

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I have setup a Windows RDS box on Server 2016 that runs in a VM. I've got The DDA (PCIe device passthrough) setup on a Nvidia P2000 gpu. 

To make the RDS server use the gpu instead of the CPU for video which group policies should I modify?

Thank you

RDS Licensing Questions

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OS in question Server 2016 and Server 2019

If we have a 2019 Remote Desktop Server and it has 20 RDS User Client Access Licenses. All 20 users have logged in at some point and consumed a License. Then a 21st person logs in.   What Happens?  

Do the old users eventually still drop off if they have not connected?

Is there a Manual way to Assign/deassign a License to a user?

Forcing UDP for RDS session

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I've got a RDS environment that is using Windows Server 2016. The thin clients we use are Wyse 3040. I am wanting to use UDP instead of TCP for the connection. I've not been able to figure out how to use UDP. I can see on my wyse client that a few packets use UDP but 99% use TCP.

We connect using a VPN so we don't have a gateway setup. Is there a group policy I can add or what is the best way to do that?

Thank you

Windows server 2008 R2 - How can I fix the warning message (120 days) appears when using remote desktop session

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Hello 

I am using windows server 2008 R2 with multiple users (5 users accounts). I facing a problem where a 'pop up' warning message appears saying * you have 120 days left ......* every time when I or other users logged in to this server. I tried to check through the remote desktop licencing server and add the license server's name and its credentials (Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration) in the configuration. Then there is no error and green tick appears in the License diagnosis tab under 'Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration' seem every thing fine. However, when log off and log in again I need to supply the credentials again and again for every time and for every user who log in. Also, the days are reducing meaning , I am left with 118 days more for remote desktop sessions .  

Q: Why every time the user logged in to the server , still getting this warning popup, although a valid license server name and its credentials were supplied ?? 

Q How can I fix this problem . I need complete solution for multiple users ? 

I hope you understand the problem. 

Thanks 

Faisal




Multiple RDS License Server with Split licenses

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Hello

We have 2 RDS License server in the domain with 40 Per User CAL on each server with OS Windows Server 2016 DataCenter. and we have GPO in place as well point RDS license server But only one RDS License server is allocating the licenses. Second server is not allocating. 

Both server are activated for RDS license.

Need help in this.

Thanks & Regards,

Sapan Shah

RWW via a Mac or IOS

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Hello support,

I have Windows 2012 R2 standard server as a RDS clients on it.  it runs an applications on it called ACT! and 7 users login to it to access the Act! program and their individual email outlook. There are three users that have Apple devices that use RDP client for Mac that access the server.  I want to close port 3389 and use Remote Web Access (via a ssl certificate) and using essential experience to access the server instead of RDP.  But when I go to browser (Safari) and put in the remote link.  https://remote.domain.com/remote,     I am able to log in and the remote client is downloaded and when I click on it, it wants to open it with an app and it cannot find and goes to App Store but all the programs there are greyed out or not available.  

The same process for iPad and iPhone. How can safely access the server?  I appreciate your help.

Jamshid  

RemoteAPP after windows 10 update 1803 are slow and right mouse button is not responding (it reacts only sometimes)

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Hi,

our workstations with Windows 10 pro are in this weekend updated to version 1803. For main system we use RemoteAPP aplications on Windows server 2012R2 (Windows server 2012R2 is full updated). After update on client station are RemoteAPP slower, and  right mouse button is unresponsive, or react verly long time... 

It is a big problem for us.

PS: after replace mstsc.exe and mstscax.dll from older version Windows 10 is all OK. but this is not a solution.

Thanks.



RemoteApp cant seem to write to Program Files (x86)

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I have a (old) ERP system setup as a RemoteApp.

When you go to spool invoices etc and display them, it goes to generate them, brings up WordPad but then comes up with the following message:


"\\ServerFQDN\c$\Program Files (x86)\Application Folder\Sub Folder\Filename.txt

Cannot find this file

Please verify the correct file name and path are given."

It has never written the file.

If I open WordPad as a RemoteApp and manually browse to that location I have full access and create and modify a file there so I dont believe its a permissions issue.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Per User RDS licensing on Windows Sever 2016 in Workgroup environment

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Hello to All!

We have a problem with RDS feature on 2016 Server.

Server was deployed with no CALs installed and worked some time in a trial mode. Then owners of this server bought 30 Per User licenses trough SPLA programm and I was asked to activate and install licenses in it.

Before I connect to server I saw that owners are now in procces of deleting grace period registry entry (because grace period has ended and they was in big hurry to make it work again).

After all this and mine (standart activation and installing licenses proccess) manipulations server now did not want to see legal licenses and continuing working in trial mode (grace period still ticking). Last manipulations was to delete grace registry again and reboot the sever (I found similar situation https://www.360ict.nl/blog/no-remote-desktop-licence-server-availible-on-rd-session-host-server-2012/) but it did not helped and now grace period start ticking from beginnig (120 days).

I found info that 2016 server is still can issue Per User CALs to local users in Workgroup environment and made all manipulations with local group policies https://digitalbamboo.wordpress.com/2017/04/05/deploy-remote-desktop-services-in-a-workgroup-easily/ and other stuff and now in diagnostics there have no warning and all green.

Maybe some one faced similar problem or have any suggestions I would be very graceful. I'm desperate already.

RDS design limitations ?

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Hi

I am doing a POC on RDS and I am currently running into some limitations that I hope someone here on the forum can help answer if those are indeed limitations or if what I try to do can be achieved in another way.

Explanation of environment.

1 datacenter site (6 RDS hosts)
11 large branch sites (2-3 RDS hosts in each branch)

Datacenter is publishing applications from central systems running in the datacenter

Branches are publishing applications from system running locally on the branches. Most of these local systems for several reasons have to run locally in the branches and it is mission critical for thin clients and computers running at the same local branch to have access to those local published applications 24/7. That means also when the WAN link to the datacenter should go down.

Published applications must be able to be launched from computers and mobile devices, from the internet. This should be archived with gateways and web access servers placed only in the Datacenter. We don't want to have internet facing servers running on our branch sites. Of course those local published apps on branches can only be launched from internet when the WAN link to the datacenter is up, but this is ok. Critical part is for local clients on the same site as the RDS hosts to be able to launch them if WAN should be down.

Design considerations

Since we don't want an individual deployment for each branch, where we would need internet facing gateway and web access servers on each branch, those should be placed in the datacenter, so the best fitting design here would be the below.

Datacenter: 2 x RDS gateway/Web access servers, 2 x connection broker, license server and 6 RDS hosts.
Branches: 2-3 RDS hosts
Collections: 1 for datacenter and 1 for each of the 11 branches.

This setup however would not allow clients to start locally published applications if the WAN link is down to that branch, since users in that branch cannot reach the Web access and broker in the datacenter.

Questions:

Is there any way around this or any way it could be designed to allow users to start local published apps (not desktops) when users cannot reach the broker and web access servers.

Can you setup that if a broker is not available, the remote apps will still launch, just without load balancing and the feature to reconnect to disconnected sessions. So it should just launch directly against RDS host servers (You could probably use DNS RR to then still get some kind of client distribution across the hosts) ?

When setting up remote desktop clients on phones and computers, they require a URL feed. This is pointed to the Web access server "https://server.domain/rdweb/feed/webfeed/xxxxxx.aspx" does this mean that the web access server is mandatory to even be able to launch remote apps or is there another way to launch them that doesn't rely on the Web access server ?

Thanks

Martin

Remote Desktop Licenses activation website down?

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I am trying to activate remote desktop CALs and I cannot seem to get onto  https://activate.microsoft.com

Is that website down? Is there another way to do it as I am set up for "Web Browser" connection method.

Server OS 2016/2019 Session hosts (RDS) problems with Remote Desktop Services is currently busy

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Dear colleagues and support.

That is not something that was solved here, I found a couple of similar problems with 2008r2, but it cannot be applied to latest OS. And problem described in other topics are a little different

Our case:

We are using large infrastructure based on many Servers 2012r2 all in one RDS servers (Broker, Web, SH is installed at every server). Many servers published behind some load balancer.

As we have a lot of servers in farm - we have a redirected profiles configured (over GPO) and placed at DFS.

We started testing 2016 servers, and our test group start reporting problems with "Remote Desktop Services is currently busy".

Usually problem solved itself in 1-2 min, user have to try several times before he is able to connect. There was no hanged user sessions or something like this or some useful even log as i can see.

There was no solution for 2016 problem over the internet, so I was hoping to find it with 2019 server.

But we are able to reproduce problem even on "clean", powerful (8 cores, SSD, 32 GB RAM), freshly installed server with single role (RDS) on it for the minimal number of users (1-2 users online)

So that is not something like server load or not enough resources.

I assume it is related somehow to redirected profiles or some service really "busy" with what? But why it is working stable for 2012R2 and has such problem with 2016/2019? May be we can adjust some parameters, timeouts or something like this?

Do we have any workaround for this except disabling redirected profiles or living forever based on 2012 r2 (that is not an option when you have a farm for 1000 users online and many member servers behind balancer)

Many thanks for your ideas!

Regards,

Sergii V


Exclude file from UPD not working

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Hey

I'm trying to exclude this file from the UPD:

Added this in the GUI: \AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat

All new users still have the file included in the UPD file - why?

Michael

RemoteApp connection window - Cancel button not visible

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Hi, on some clients when connecting to a remoteapp the abort button is not displayed correctly. 

On one of the clients where this problem is occurring is Windows 10 Enterprise Version 1809 (Build 17763.437) installed. The OS of the RDS-Server is Windows Server 2016 Standard.

 

Any ideas how to solve the problem?



Mouse cursor interacting with Remote Desktop App windows on the wrong monitor

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We have a WinForms application we use as a remote desktop app and recently we've had multiple users report a situation where clicking on one monitor actually interacts with windows on another monitor. Restarting the remote desktop application seems to fix the problem. Our users have a two monitor setup.

Has anyone else experienced this issue?

VDI and RDS

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Hello, I've got a question regarding the use of VDI and RDS at the same time.

We managed hotels and most of our front desk computers will be required to use VDI and not RDS due to software that has to be installed at each front desk pc for credit card and room keys and it won't work on RDS since each reader is independent.

My question is if we setup VDI for the front desk computers which will use Dell Wyse ThinOS and then all the other computers in the Hotel are RDS on Dell Wyse ThinOS can we set it up so that if a user logs into a front desk computer it goes to the VDI machine and then if they sign into a back office terminal it goes to the RDS server?

If that's possible do you just have the wyse terminal set to sign into the VDI machine using the vdi hostname or would you still point it to the Broker?

For RDS I've went into the DNS and put in a A record since we have multiple RDS servers. How would this work with VDI? 

The other question is what is the difference between buying a VDI license vs just buying a Windows 10 license and putting that on a Hyper-V VM?

Thanks

2016 RDS issue - Single user | Windows cannot find local profile.

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Hello, 

I'm receiving a few errors with my RDS 2016 build. Randomly a user, upon logging in will be given a temporary profile. I do the normal remediation steps by deleting the temp profile in the registry and Advance User options, the server is rebooted and they can log in fine. But after a while the error comes back again. All other users can remote in fine with no issues, it only effects one user at a time. A few errors I see....

1. Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off.

2. 

The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID 
{D63B10C5-BB46-4990-A94F-E40B9D520160}
 and APPID 
{9CA88EE3-ACB7-47C8-AFC4-AB702511C276}
 to the user (xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) SID (S-1-5-21-3444666529-4500789-23435591xx-xxxxx) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC) running in the application container Unavailable SID (Unavailable). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.

The RDS server shows this error

3. Remote Desktop Services could not apply a user desktop for a user account with a SID of S-1-5-21-3444666529-4500789-23435591xx-xxxxx. A temporary profile was enforced for the user. Verify that the user profile disk settings are correct. The error code is 0x15.135

4. Remote Desktop Services could not attach a user profile disk for a user account with a SID of S-1-5-21-3444666529-4500789-23435591xx-xxxxx. The error code is 0x15.135

Thanks.

Please assist, 

Seneb

Non-Admin Users Cannot R-Click or Access On WinSvr2016Datacenter

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Good afternoon,

We had some contract work done by a MITS company to deprovision our old RDS VMs and build a new one. Once the new one was in place, we started letting users into it, but we found a couple of strange problems I haven't encountered before.


-Right-Clicking doesn't work. I've checked the local GP, and the File Explorer context menus are not disabled. Neither is it disabled in the registry.

-In File Explorer, users do not see the "This PC" section in the left navigation pane, where they would normally select local and mapped drives. They can still access these drives by typing the file path in the navigation bar.

We do not have these problems with domain admins, only non-admin users. It happens if we RDP into it or use any other remote software, such as vsphere's remote in or Jade's ScreenConnect. These problems are not occurring on all of our other VMs, which are all WinSvr2012R2.

The crew who deployed this VM were not instructed to implement any special security measures, our previous GPOs and ACLs were sufficient for access control.

RDP %CLIENTNAME% variable before disconnected session is torn down

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When you launch an RDP session you get the %clientname% variable that is the name of the PC you are connecting from.  The smallest interval RDS allows before it will tear down the session is one minute.  My issue is that if a user logs out of their application and the session goes to a "disconnected" state on the RDSH host, and they logon from a different machine within that minute their reconnected session is there, but it has the wrong %clientname%.  We have applications that rely on the %clientname% being accurate.  Think service industry, where quick logoff/logons can happen between multiple stations. Is there any way to either shorten the 1 minute limit or force a renewal of the variable on each and every logon?  thanks.
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