Hi All,
In a few words: language switching in any published RemoteApp works but more often doesn't work in an arbitrary way .
Below is a very detailed description.
All is setup up in an old (i.e. working smoothly) domain environment:
- Windows Server 2008 R2 build 7600 with English/Hebrew keyboard, serving as both RDS and Licensing server, no other roles;
- No strange problems noticed on the server side;
- All recommended updates for the server installed;
- 16 RDS 2008 R2 CALs installed “per user”;
- Office 2003 hebrew standard installed;
- Office applications and Wordpad published as RemoteApp programs;
- Windows XP SP3 Hebrew/English client PCs with SP3;
- All users of RemoteApp are configured in exactly the same way with the same permissions and group membership and are domain users in the same domain as the RDS2;
- Wordpad as RemoteApp has the same problem so the problem is not at all specific to the Office.
I can report the following observations after extensively playing with different options in order to get Hebrew/English keyboard switching to work:
- No RDS user ever got floating (or any other) keyboard switch at the first use of the RemoteApp;
- Some users got floating keyboard switch after many operations of opening and closing RemoteApps and being reset on the server;
- No clear reason for why some users got the switch while others didn’t;
- Client XP PC: localized or not doesn’t make any difference to the problem, as well as latest updates;
- When switch appears for a specific user on one PC the switch may persist on that PC after session reset on server for that user;
- When switch appears for a specific user on one PC the switch may persist if the user is run on another PC;
- Sometimes user that already got the switch on one PC wouldn’t get it on another PC;
- Sometimes user that already got the switch will later not get it on the same PC;
- On the same PC some users might get the switch while others won’t;
- Permissions of domain admin or local admin have no consistent effect on users as far as switching is concerned;
- New RDC 7.0 for XP has no consistent effect on the problem as far as switching is concerned;
- No other client except for XP is of any interest at this point of time.
Local MS support refused to help requiring partnership or SA as a prerequisite.
I already met a colleague with the same problem which makes me think I'm not dealing with something totally stupid...
I'll be very grateful for any help!