Hi,
Users who are using Microsoft Remote Desktop version 10 (on Mac and Windows) are being prompted to accept the Remote Desktop Gateway Services certificate when attempting to connect. The certificate is valid and this has only started occurring recently.
This is also not happening on older versions of either MacOS or Windows clients, nor is it an issue when using the older MSTSC client.
Can you please advise if this is a known issue and if so what can be done to rectify.
Thanks,
Aaron
Hi.
Environment:
The Outlook window dissaperars or looses focus when the cursor is moved between e-mails or tasks. Resulting in the application behind Outlook showing instead.
The problem is sporadic and it does not matter what window is behind Outlook. PDF reader, Excel, etc...
The video below shows the problem.
Remember: In the video the user is only moving the mouse cursor. No mouse clicks and no keyboard keys are in play here.
./ Lars Olsen
I don't find an documented answer to this question, but when using RDS through Azure Web Proxy, you are tied to legacy RPC-HTTP, right? UDP is not supported?
Hi,
I'm sure this has been asked many times before, and I'm probably just missing something simple but we've built a new RDS 2016 system consisting of 2 Connection Brokers and a few RDS Hosts which will be used for plain Remote Desktops.
Clients are getting certificate warnings when connecting as the DNS name for the farm (RDSFARM.domain.com) is different to the host name on the self-signed certificate which is presented. We have a wildcard cert which we could use, in place of a SAN certificate, but I'm unsure where we configure this.
In the RDS Server Manager, you can configure the RD Conncection Broker for SSO, Publishing, Web Access and RD Gateway but these aren't related to what I'am talking about are they?
I've also tried putting this wildcard cert into the RDS system certificate store and removing the self signed cert, but no luck doing that. So what is the right way to configure this?
Thanks in advance,
Dave
Hi,
Our set-up:
Every x days when a user tries to connect they are getting stuck at "Configuring remote session".
After 5 minutes they are presenting with an error that the RDS gateway server isn't available.
This is not the case for every user, just randomly around 50% of the users.
Once we rebooted both of the RDS gateway server everything works fine again.
The strange thing is that we can;t find any Error/Warning at the evenlog.
ESET anti virus we enabled debug logging but that server also isn't logging any errors/warnings/blocked stuff..
Any idea what could be the issue and how we could resolve it ?
Hi,
All our win 10 1903 clients, immediately after been updated from 1803 to 1903 start repeating keystrokes in remote apps. Servers are 2012 R2. RemoteFX cannot be disabled on session hosts servers since that solution causes problems to some of the apps running. Any one facing the same problem ? Any solution?
This issue has been a thorn in my side for the past several months. While investigating I've read every post/article I could find on the topic and wanted to share my findings, as well as include instructions how to recreate the issue which I haven't seen elsewhere.
Symptom:
In Server 2012r2 and Server 2016 RDS environments, while in published RemoteApp applications, the Caps lock/Numlock keys become inverted from the local computer. For example, the keyboard indicator shows Caps Lock is off, but capitalizes all characters in
the RemoteApp application.
Cause:
The Caps Lock/Num Lock keys are inverted when the application opens a new window, a text field is selected, and the “Caps Lock” or "Num Lock" keys are the first input. It appears that when new Windows are generated from the published application they don't get keyboard sync information until text is input. For instance, if you launch a published instance of File Explorer, click the search bar, and hit the "Caps Lock" key, the issue doesn't happen. However, if you right click a folder, select"open in new window", click the search bar in the new window, then hit the caps lock key, it will. Again, only if the Caps Lock/Numlock keys are the first input.
You can recreate the problem easily by doing the following:
I have tested this in several applications including: Adobe, WordPad, Word, Excel, PowerPoint. This also works in clean installations on both Server 2012r2 and 2016.
Solution:
Currently none. We placed a paid ticket with Microsoft Support where we explained the issue and provided instructions on how to recreate. The ticket was escalated, and we were eventually informed that this is a known issue that hasn't been documented. We
were then provided a refund and informed that they would let us know when a fix is in place.
Workaround:
Clicking anywhere outside of the RemoteApp applications will correct the inversion. We typically recommend clicking the task bar. Another option is minimizing and maximizing the application manually or by pressing Win+D twice. Many of our users use the caps lock key in place of the shift key. I'm not sure how effective it has been but we are instructing users to use the shift key, especially when entering credentials.
Even though there isn't currently a solution I hope that this is at least informative and someone finds it helpful.
Hello colleagues
When we are doing such config (enable multiple sessions per user):
Computer Configuration\ Administrative Templates\ Windows Components\ Remote Desktop Services\ Remote Desktop Session Host\ Connections
Restrict Remote Desktop Services users to a single Remote Desktop Services session Disabled
We are not able to reconnect to any disconnected session that was running previously.
It seems that it was mentioned here for Inside build, but we have same...
Any solutions for this problem?
Regards,
I deployed several collections and started using user profile disks with Windows server 2016. I am running into an issue when it comes to mounting a user profile disk of one of our employees. The disk mounts just fine but access is denied to the administrator. Is there a best practice for user profile disk maintenance through the administrator? What can I do to grant access to the administrator for every user profile disk in any of my collections.
Thanks!!
Hey guys, just wondering if any of you have seen this behavior or managed to be able to correct it because I can't seem to find a fix. The client computer is running the latest version of Windows and the RDS Servers are at latest patch of Server 2016. The client opens up a remote app and then minimizes it and the remote app disappears from their taskbar.
Any ideas?
Cheers!
Brian Baldock | MCSE | MCSA | MS | MCP Please note: This post is provided as is with no guarantee. Test, then test again
I want to generate usage reports for RdWeb month on month to know how many users have logged in each day. I'm doing it manually by exporting the terminal gateway event logs as csv, trim, sort out date format, etc.. which is a tedious job as I have to do it for 14 environments. Looking for automation ideas to avoid manual work and set up a dashboard which will display as on date usage and option to download the data.
Can someone throw some light as how a dashboard can be created directly by reading the event logs
RDP -George
Hi,
I have a OCR software published as a RemoteApp distributed in several servers. The problem is that this software only allows one simultaneous connections per user, per server. In some scenarios I have to run multiples instances of this software simultaneously. I do not want to connect manually to the available host to launch the software. I really want to use it as an RemoteApp. Is there a policy or any other way to force, in a given collection, each new specific user app launch to take a new host. To give an example:
simple RDS architecture: 1 broker + 5 hosts (A to E) - RemoteApp : App1
User Paul launch App1 - broker takes server A
Paul launch 2nd instance of App1 - broker cannot take Server A, it takes server C.
Fred launch App1 - broker takes server A.
Paul 3rd instance of App1 - broker cannot take server A or C, it takes server B.
Fred 2nd App1 - server D
Paul closes 2nd instance
Paul launch 4th instance - broker may now take server C again as 2nd instance is now closed.
Sorry for the long example. Just to clear.
Regards,
Lucas
Hi Team,
I am facing the RDP session issues as you can find in my attachments.
In our environment we take RDP to a Windows Server 2012 R2 (Jump Server) - connected to our environment Via VPN Tunnel or with Public IP.
The Jump server is connected to another 3 Servers in different location (datacenter) via VPN Tunnel. So first we take remote to Jump server and from there we take remote to other 3 Servers in different location.
But right now we are having issues with RDP when we take from Jump Servers to Other 3 servers. I am getting the errors as per the attachment.
Steps Taken:
ON JUMP Server
ON 3 Remote servers
Please help me to resolve this issue .
Thanks in Advance
Regards,
Aravind S
Hi
We installed the roles on one server and enabled user profile disks, then we uninstalled the roles. Now when a user remotes to the server user profile disks are still being used.
Is there a way to stop them being used?
Using Group Policy Editor, I have added Administrators into Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Local Policies\User Rights Assignment\Deny access to this computer from the network. This is to make sure that file sharing users cannot bypass the NTFS rights. However, I want members of the Administrators group to be able to login interactively using Remote Desktop. It works from Windows PCs, but not from Microsoft RD Client for Android, where I get the following error message:
I can connect from Android only if I remove that policy.
Any ideas?
Hi
We have a problem with logon times on our RDP 2012R2 servers. It must be related to the roaming profile.
The problem:
The users logon on via RDP. The profile gets loaded, applying group policy settings and so on, and then the "black screen" starts. I can take up to 15 minutes before the users desktop is visible and ready to work.
While there are black screen I can press CTRL+ALT+DEL and go to the task manager. The only process that is working is explorer.exe.
If we create a new profile the users are logged in less than a minute, but the logon process and the time for the black screen increases over time. It happens for all our users on our 30 RDS servers.
Any suggestions?
ALL SERVERS ARE WINDOWS 2016 STANDARDs, the hosts and VMs alike.
I have two (2) Hyper-v Physical Hosts, HV1 & HV2 with plenty of horsepower and 128GB of RAM. All my participating servers in the FARM are VMs. HV1 hosts RDSH1 and HV2 hosts RDSH2, which, as the names indicate are Session Host Servers. HV2 also hosts RDSB, which is the Connection Broker, Gateway, License Server, and Profile Disk Server. The total number of users is around 55; very low number by any extent of imagination. After working flawlessly for a couple of months, recently, every user that ends up on RDSH1 gets the TEMP profile.
Each Session Host Server (RDSH1$ & RDSH2$) have the same Security rights to the Profile Disk Share. All other configurations are 100% the same. The only difference is the RDSH1 is on a different physical server, but RDSH2 is on the same physical server as the Profile Disk Server/Share. Both Physical Hosts are connected physically to the same Cisco Enterprise switch, and the servers and the switch all are only 1 year old. For now, I have taken RDSH1 out of the equation and all is fine, but I really want to add it back in for many compelling reasons, specifically for the sake of eliminating "single point of failure".
I have been in this field for 20 years, and still know very little, but, for the sake of all, please do not post "no-answer" answers if you do not know the answer, for the sake of accumulating points-- whatever they are worth. I rarely post anything, because a whole lot of people post nonsense as answers or ask questions that are already in the "Introduction".
But for those who really understand Remote Desktop Server Services (2012 and up), as well as the Virtualization and Physical Layer's aspect of networking, I greatly appreciate the help.
I have been researching this for weeks. My gut feeling tells me this is a design flaw by MS. But who is to say? And, I have very little faith in MS to come out and admitting it.
I have a SINGLE Win2008R2 TS/RDP Server, running, Host/Web and allowing users to see a lot of RemoteApp Applications
Recently users were complaing about some Remote Apps are shwoing the same icon, 9 in 10 Remote Apps are shwoing the MSTSC icon, insted, Chrome, Firefox, IE and some other LOB applications
I delete the cache of the "rdp" folder, deleting lots of RDP and PNG files 9iisreset after) and even thou, the wrong icons are still being shown
All remote apps have its default icon the first icon available in .EXE, of course read status available, applicatiosn are working, but the icon is strangely the MSTSC icon
Any ideas?