2 nic card : how to setup different rdp ports on each NIC then i can access from internet with 2 diffrerent RDP connection to each nic card that connected to the internal network?
windows server 2012 r2
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2 NIc card : how to setup 2 rdp port for each
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AWS Remote Desktop Services Licensing
Greetings! This is my first to post, so please bear with me.
Here is my scenario:
My company has a number of Windows servers (company-owned hardware & OS licenses) in a server farm. My company has purchased User & RDS User CALs for all employees to be able to RDP into each server. Server licenses & CALs are all retail purchases,
no Volume Licensing, no Software Assurance.
The company has also purchased a VL w/SA Microsoft Office w/100 seats. I have installed Office on our servers for our users' use.
I know this configuration is compliant with Microsoft's License Agreements as we own the hardware and directly purchased the licenses.
However, in addition to the server farm, my company has an account with AWS and wants to create several multi-user (via RDP) servers. Also, my company wants to install Office on the servers for our users.
Here is my problem:
I cannot find clear concise documentation from either Microsoft or AWS confirming the licensing requirements for my AWS scenario.
I've found many blogs saying one could use the regular User/RDS User CALs purchased via VL or Retail.
Alternately, I've found several other blogs talking about User/RDS User SALs (Subscriber Access Licenses) as the requirement since Windows is licensed from Microsoft via AWS through SPLA (Subscriber Provider License Agreement).
Are SALs included in my monthly payments to AWS? Where do I buy SALs? Does anyone have official documentation from AWS on this topic? The software vendor from which I purchased my company's VL Office has never heard of SALs.
Additionally, I have not been able to find clear documentation regarding the use of Office on an AWS Windows instance. I know AWS supports LM (Licensing Mobility) for users with certain Volume Licensing agreements but LM only applies to Server Applications.
Microsoft Office is a desktop application.
Where can I buy Office for AWS instances? How do I license my users to be able to use Office on an AWS instance?
I've contacted Microsoft and was redirected to AWS. I've contacted AWS but no one seems to know the answers. Is no one else asking these questions? Is no one else using AWS Windows-based servers in a multi-user environment over RDP?
Any input on this topic would be very much appreciated.
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Lossy Audio when you RDP into Server 2012 R2
I recently decided to take the risk to upgrade my Terminal Server to Windows Server 2012 R2, to find out that what I worried about, came true. My audio applications have become Lossy via RDP, you can actually hear artifacts when playing audio. In Windows Server 2012, the audio was PERFECT, lossless and as if you are using the audio application on the computer. In fact, this was the BEST thing Microsoft has done with RDP for Windows Server 2012- improving the sound quality DRAMATICALLY via RDP. I know that RDP isn't designed for listening to music or viewing multimedia, but they honestly have changed that in Windows 8 and Server 2012. Seriously, they did.
So my question would be- How do I DISABLE audio compression via terminal services on Windows Server 2012 R2, or do I have to go back to Windows Server 2012 which would honestly be a hassle being that I need to reinstall my terminal server? Otherwise, how do I deactivate my copy of Windows Server 2012 R2 so that I can reuse the license key?
Or if there is no solution, this issue needs to be reported to Microsoft for us to at LEAST disable bandwidth consumption and multimedia streaming compression and restore back the RDP audio capabilities that we had in Windows Server 2012.
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Why can't I pin network shortcuts to the taskbar?
Simple scenario here:
2 RDS Servers, load balanced
Start menu is redirected to a network share
Users can't pin their programs to the start menu or the taskbar.
Now; first of all, this is completely moronic. The LINKS are on a network share, the APPLICATIONS aren't. Still I can't pin, not even after I start the applications.
I know there are workarounds, but none of the solutions I've seen are even remotely doable in an RDS environment with 100 users.
Seriously, is there no way to make this work?
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Access denied when trying to remote to a S08 R2 machine
I have a S08 R2 machine. I am trying to remote to this from a win8 box and keep getting access denied.
I am using my domain account and I have checked that it is allowed through the firewall as well.
Any ideas?
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problems with license server
We recently had help with setting up a license server for Remote Desktop. This server works fine, but we can't get other machines to use the server's licenses.
When we rdekstop to the client server, we can only access it 2 users at the time indicating that the client server doesn't find the licenses on the license server.
We have tried to configure Group Policy so the client knew exactly where the license server was, but that didn't work.
We have also tried to confiure it through the Server Manager, but that requires a Domain controller, which we don't have.
any ideas to get this working. how do i make a RDesktop server read it's licenses from another server
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Terminal Server Session Freezes/Hangs
Hi,
Just a little background info, I have a terminal server farm running Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise behind a hardware load balancer and I am utilizing the session directory service.
The issue I am running into is users’ terminal sessions will freeze up when they reconnect to their existing session. There are two scenarios that this happens. When a user moves from one desk to another and they log into the terminal server and reconnect to their session or after a period of inactivity their session will lock them out and then they log in. All the user gets is usually only a partial display or just the desktop backgroup and the session doesn't respond. I used to just kill their session and have them log back in but now I have narrowed it down to the OUTLOOK.EXE process. If I log into the server they are on and kill their Outlook process their session starts to respond. I have noticed that Outlook will be utilizing 2% to 10% CPU when it is occurring. We are running Office 2010. It seems to be random and very frustrating.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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Windows 2008 R2 SP1 RDS -> Blank Screen on every 2nd login?
Hello,
I'm expiring a weird problem.
I'm trying to logon with a normal user on our Terminalserver. I can type username + password but after "preparing your desktop" the screen turns black. Having a look at the taskmanager (with the administrator) i can see, that there is no explorer.exe active for that user.
Thank i close my user-mstsc.exe session and reconnect - than everything works fine :(
(Than i logoff and on again: black screen, logoff and logon again: everythings fine...... )
Any hint what could cause this issue?
I've tried a loot of thing (disabling the user feedback on errors, disabling bitmap caching on client, stopping AV-scanner, installed the latest Updates etc...).
Thanks a lot,
Florian
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Minimum server setup and licenses for about 5 RDC sessions
We run QuickBooks, who's only usable remote access facility is RDC or Cytrix. Right now we are running SBS'11 and already have problems with people logging in and kicking others off.
MS's licensing hotline suggested that Foundation would be the way to solve this, but various posts here suggest that Foundation and Essentials also have two session limits.
Is this correct?
If so, what is the minimum setup that would get me, say five sessions? I have a minimal budget to fix this problem
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Remote desktop with local printer
I have a terminal server with windows server 2008 R2 , My local machine running with XP. After connecting with remote desktop I cannot print with the local printer Model Samsung 1750 & HP 2015 laserjet But when I connect the Printer like HP 1160
it will print perfectly. what is the problem & one other issue is it necessary the local printer driver required to be installed in the terminal server.
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RDS Licensing per User CAL
Hello,
I was wondering if someone could explain how the RDS licensing works in Per User mode. I am a little confused as to how to determine whether we are reaching our installed CAL limit or not. As I understand it RDS User CALS are not assigned per user, an unlimited number of users can connect, whereas a device CAL is assigned per device. If this is the case, then how can I tally up how many RDS User connections we have and compare against the CALS installed. Currently our license server shows the following, I have inherited this system from an outsourced provider setup so Ii don’t really know exactly what they have done. This information is displayed under the RDS licensing server manager in 2008 R2
License Version and Type License Program Total Licenses
Windows 2000 Server - Built-in TS Per Device CALS Built-in unlimited
Windows Server 2008 or Windows 2008 R2 RDS Per User Open 5
Windows Server 2008 or Windows 2008 R2 RDS Per User Open 46
There is another column to the right of these which indicate how many have been issued, there is no figures in this column for any of those license types shown. I am assuming that the built-in line is for the two admins which can connect from an unlimited number of devices. If I run a report and cover the entire domains and trusted forests it comes back with a CSV file which only contains half a dozen user names in it, despite the installed quantity showing 51, it shows that I have 13 available – how can I find out where the other 38 have been assigned and how can I tell if they are being used or not?
Many thanks
Steve
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Can not authenticate user from child domain on gateway server
Hi,
I try to authenticate users from a sub domain on our gateway server as described in this article as situation b: http://blogs.technet.com/b/networking/archive/2010/01/14/remote-desktop-gateway-client-fails-authentication-with-your-user-account-is-not-authorized-to-access-the-rd-gateway.aspx
I already have added the gateways server to the RAS and IAS Servers group in the child domain and did a reboot. But without effect: the users can't login of the use the gateways server. Direct RDP connection to the farm works fine.
I only get the 201 error in the gateway log as described in the article above. On the other hand I get an information in the system log from NPS, that a LDAP connection to the DC of the child domain as ben established.
There is no firewall and the trust is bidirectional and transitive.
Any idea what my problem could be?
Kind regards,
Dennis
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RDP Gateway not showing icons of apps in IE10
When login in onto my webinterface of the RDP Gatewayserver (Windows 2008R2), I cannot see the icons of the published applications.
This problem occurs only on IE10 in normal mode. When using the compatibility mode then the icons show up.
I prefer not to use the 'compatibility mode'.
Thanks
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RDP session - No youtube video?
Hi,
I'm having issues watching youtube videos when connected to our Windows Server 2008 R2 Terminal Server trough RDP.
When I'm opening Internet Explorer and browse to youtube.com, I can play a video for about 2 seconds, then Youtube gives a message stating something went wrong, the video won't play further.
I have tried to do the same with i.e. Google Chrome, with that browser Youtube videos play just fine.
Has anyone experienced the same issue, and more important, did anyone manage to solve it?
Thank you very much for any answers and help.
Regards,
Arjan
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"The remote session was disconnected because there were network problems during the licensing protocol" after enabling RemoteFX Windows 8 VM
I receive the error anytime I try to connect (from Windows 7 physical client machines running the recent RDP 8 "update") to the Windows 8 VM (w/RemoteFx enabled) running on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Server. The GPU on the server is DirectX 11 capable. At one point this was working, however, just recently this stopped working (not sure if any Windows Server 2012 updates did this or the RDP 8 "update" for Windows 7/2008 R2).
If I connect to the Windows 8 VM (with RemoteFx enabled) from the Hyper-V manager, the connection works (no licensing protocol errors)
However, if I remove the RemoteFx from the Windows 8 VM, all RDP 8 clients connect fine.
I've checked all the event logs (noticed no errors) and the Remote Desktop Virtualization Host Agent is running. I've checked the RD Licensing Diagnoser and no errors reported.
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Load Balancing/HA of RDS license servers
We are building a large Citrix farm and want to be sure RDS licenses are always available.
I've read thru all the forums and not found exactly what I'm looking for, along with finding some bad info. So I'd like to confirm a few thoughts and check some details.
The language about RDS licensing servers being available is a bit confusing. It says if a user who has previously been licensed tries to connect while the license server is unavailable, they will be allowed in, but a new user will be denied. What is meant by "previous user" here and where is it kept? We will have 500+ terminal servers in our farm, and running Citrix PVS and mandatory profiles, so there is little chance of being on the same server twice, no profiles are being saved, and they will run like VDI off shared disk and be "blank" and rebooted nightly. So I'd like to know where/if/how this is tracked.
I saw some recommendations to install 2 RDS license servers, and split the licenses 50/50, specify both in GPO, but that all traffic will go to only the first server listed if its up. So if the 1st server goes down the second will be there. But assuming that we won't have double the RDS licenses we need, it seems that the first server will be "out" of licenses all the time and users will be polling the second server. But then if the second server listed goes down, the first server would still be there, but it would be out of licenses.
What about doing the above but splitting the licenses 95/5 %? Assuming you have over 5% overage on licenses, then either server would have enough licenses to handle new connections if primary crashes.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Why am I allowed to authenticate as servername\Administrator after changing the servername?
I recently built a physical Windows Server 2008R2 X64 Dell Server (R420). After installing all updates and Virus software and configuring the firewall, I had to change the host name. I changed the host name to New Win2k8 Server and then joined our corporate
domain. I then went to log in with RDP and noticed that I could log in with the old server name\Administrator credentials. To make sure the name wasn't cached in net-bios I tried this from another pc that is on the same network that I hadn't used to log into
this server before. Since I can't use a sniffer to see exactly what is going on I was wondering if anyone else could shed some light on this. I would think I could use this to remote into someone else's server if I knew an old host name and a password scheme
used. Thanks in advance, Phil Woodell.
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Having issues with RDS and multiple RemoteApps/Licensing
We have an issue with RemoteApps. We have a fully functional RDS deployment, (RDS1 for example) that serves 2 different apps to our users.
App1 - served thru 3 different session host servers (ts1, ts2, ts3)
App2 - served thru 2 different session host servers (ts4, ts5)
since both apps are accessed thru the same connection broker server the users cannot have both apps open at the same time. Our original fix for this was to create a new deployment, (call it RDS2), and move ts4 and ts5 to it. This would work but the issue is we need the license server from RDS1 to issue licenses to the users connecting to RDS2 and it will not work. We tried going to OVERVIEW in the new RDS2 deployment, going to Deployment Servers, Tasks, ADD RD Licensing Servers. When I add License1 server to it then it wants to add all servers from the RDS1 deployment to this RDS2 setup which imports all apps, servers, settings etc. into the new deployment and we still have the same issue with the 2 apps being opened by the same broker.
If I go to the new RDS2 deployment, click Collections, Tasks, Edit Deployment Options, RD Licensing, choose Per User and add the License1 server it will add but the Overview still shows that the deployment does not have a license server.
Any Ideas? If it is doable to get both apps in RDS1 to work at the same time without using a second deployment that would be great, if we have to use a second deployment that is fine also. I just need to find a fix.
thanks,
Buddy Farr
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New inserted TS CAL Volume License to 2003 TS Server display name shown strange
Dear all professional,
After we insert TS CAL Volume License insert to 2003 TS Server, shown C50-5.02-C and C50-6.00-C, is that normal?
Best Regards,
Sunny
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Choosing which IE is used to open links in remote published Outlook
We have a server 2012 environment with windows 8 clients.
We use RADC to publish Office 2010 to the users and it works well.
When users try to open a URL embedded in an email from within Outlook the link opens in a *remote session* version of IE10 instead of their local IE10. This results in audio not working properly in embedded video such as with YouTube.
How can I either force the clients to use the local (non-Metro) version of IE or make audio work through the remote version?
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