Non Interactive application timeouts with RemoteApp 2016

February 14, 2019, 3:45 am

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Hi 

We are attempting to run a background application that has no system tray icon via remoteapp, however, because its non-interactive and has no system-tray icon, the RDS connection disconnects after 20 seconds (as per: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/2345390/remoteapp-sessions-are-disconnected-when-all-remoteapp-windows-and-use)

Several other applications are deployed by RemoteApp, and as long as the user keeps one of them running, it does not disconnect. However, there are points in the day when this is the only one running, and as such the session disconnects.

Is anyone aware of away around this. I can't find away to increase the disconnection time from 20 seconds, only the logoff time.

Thanks

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What can be best way to secure RDP connection with minimum cost

February 14, 2019, 9:49 pm

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I have a small RDP server to which about 15 users log in locally but out of that 5-6 log in from home also. How can we make it more secure spening minimum money ? 

RD Gateway Active Sessions

February 14, 2019, 5:04 am

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Hello!

How can i request Active Sessions number via WMI from RDGateway? So i found PowerShell Script which get numbers i need:

(Get-Counter @("\Terminal Service Gateway\Current connections") -ComputerName "127.0.0.1").CounterSamples.CookedValue

But is any change to make the same via simple WMI request?

I found some classes, but they not work, and i think i miss a little:

root\cimV2\TerminalServices

SELECT ConnectedResource FROM Win32_TSGatewayConnection

Any suggestions?

Thank you!

RDS Gateway Domain-Joined in New DMZ or Existing?

February 13, 2019, 2:30 pm

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Is there a best practice regarding putting an RDS domain-joined gateway in an existing DMZ with other systems or creating a new isolated DMZ for it? 

Thought process is that if a system in the DMZ is compromised it could more readily lead to a compromise of the gateway and then straight to a domain controller.

 

2FA for Windows server essentials

February 13, 2019, 4:20 pm

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Hi Support,

Can 2FA be installed on the Windows server 2012 & 2016 Essentials?  If yes what is the best practice? If not can anyone recommend a third party software to achieve the goal?  I want to have 2 FA for connecting to the local workstations via RWA (remote web access or access anywhere).

I appreciate your help.

Jamshid

 

What RDP and windows CALS are needed for the following scenario

February 13, 2019, 11:15 am

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Hi all,

I am getting confusing answers so I am hoping a licencing expert can help me.

I have a client that requires 6 staff to be able to access a server at any time. They then also require us to be able to log in as their support provider if/when issues arise. This would be up to 7 concurrent logins.

I am told you get 2 RDP licences includes with Windows server.

We have decided already that user licences are what is required as the staff at their organisation can log in from 3 different locations.

I want to know in the above how many RDP licences need to be purchased.

Do we only need 5 as there are the two provided on Windows servers?

Do we need 6 as their are 6 staff and one administrator needed?

Do I need 7 as there will be seven concurrent logins?

Migrate roaming profiles to user profile disks

February 12, 2019, 6:09 am

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Hi,

I need to migrate about 450 roaming user profiles to user profile disks. I'm working on an upgrade project RDS 2008 to RDS 2016. 

Windows 2016 RDS Error 0x800703E3 when copying from Windows 10 to RDP session

February 11, 2019, 12:37 pm

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We are connected to a Windows 2016 RDS server using Windows 10.  Any time we try to copy a file from a connected drive that is passed through in the session it causes the session to disconnect for about 10-15 seconds and then it will reconnect and shows"Error 0x800703E3: The I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request."

We have tried changing SMB settings, disabling RemoteX on the RDS server and changed the RDP client to use limited bandwidth.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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Having issues with UPD in VDI Deployment

January 31, 2019, 3:43 pm

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I have a VDI Deployment with 2 RDVH servers. I am using a Failover clustering for two servers with multiple users. 

It shows that a user has previously logged out of a RDS session, and then tries to log back in, however the UPD for that user was “in use” so the user receives a temporary profile instead. Im using 2016 windows server

Also please don’t forget that at the same time we started experiencing these errors, we started having performance issues for the users as well.

When a user first connects, there is a delay (sometimes up to 3-7min) to get a desktop. Then the user will usually open Outlook to check their emails. There is a large delay doing this as well.

It seems like for about 15 min or so after a user logs in, the system/session is EXTREMELY slow. Then after the first 15 min or so, it picks up and runs like normal (speeds).

new 2 host rds build

January 31, 2019, 11:13 am

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hello i have 2 servers to use for rds build. 

can i install the broker on one of the hosts? or can these roles not be combined with session host role? or better yet can i install the broker on both session host for high availability of the broker role?

obviously best practice dictates to use dedicated server for the broker . 

thanks. 

RDS 'full desktop' vs. 'apps'?? (pros & cons)

February 13, 2019, 8:38 am

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I've tried to find comments or articles about the pros & cons of using an RDS 'full desktop' vs. 'apps'.

Particularly if using 'apps' would help better manage the RDS hosts' memory and cpu requirements, particularly in light of needing to offer Google Chrome as an additional browser because Internet Explorer is getting old and can not display some sites. But Chrome eats up a lot of resources, particularly if people leave tabs/windows running. 

We presently have a lot of device licenses and I am also thinking about changing them to user licenses instead, this would enable using the new HTML5 client.

I imagine anything said about this topic would apply to Citrix XenApp too.

Thank you, Tom

Server 2008 R2 Std Terminal Server frequent BSOD

February 15, 2019, 6:00 am

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I have a 2008 R2 Std Term Server.  Has been having 3 to 5 BSOD per day over the last few days.  

Have tried:

- Remove and reinstall production apps

- Run scans with WebRoot and MBAM (no issues found)

- SFC

- CHKDSK

- Driver Check and Update (Driver Reviver)

- Windows Updates

- Removed all un-needed virtual hardware (CD/DVD, Floppy, etc)

Server is a VMware virtual machine version 8.  Host is a Dell FC430 running ESXi 5.5 (build 2068190).  A second VM (Server 2008 R2 File Server) is running on the host as well, not having any issues.

DMP and MSinfo files available as soon as my account is verified by MS and I can post links for download

Thank you in advance.

Windows fax and scan won't pull up Windows Contacts Folder

January 13, 2012, 7:25 am

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I am using windows fax and scan it is defaulting to a box that attempts to use the address book or outlook contacts.  This system is 32-bit.  I would like it to default to the windows contacts folder.  When it does this on my other computer (64-bit) it defaults to the contacts folder and the box that opens is completely different.  Does anyone know how I can get the fax and scan to default to the windows contacts folder?

Remote Assistance to a workgroup computer

February 15, 2019, 9:30 am

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Hello Microsoft Community,

We are deploying a fleet of HP t630 Thin Clients into our environment. These machines are running Windows 10 and will not be joined to the domain (just workgroup with two local users an admin one and a user one with the user one logging in automatically.) Since these are thin clients we do not want them to be domain joined. Our help desk is already using the Microsoft Remote Assistance product to remotely offer assistance to regular desktop users. We would like to come up with a way to also connect to these thin clients. Any idea how that can be done? Remote Assistance seems to only work when connecting to a domain joined computer. Thank You!

Save website passwords not working properly with credential manager in windows 2012r2 RDS

June 25, 2015, 7:33 am

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Hello,

I can not beleive that we are the only one with this problem. I started a question about this issue a long time ago. (see https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/03d614d5-5fb8-44ed-a2f7-3e439a62d265/web-passwords-not-saved-in-credential-manager?forum=winserverTS)

For now we had a workarround by using google chrome but because they will end the java and silverlight plugins we need to go back to Internet Explorer.

The problem:

When using Roaming Profiles in an RDS environment the Profiles are deleted at logoff (policy setting). The credential manager saves encrypted files in the directory "%USERPROFILE%\Appdata\Local\Microsoft\Vault . So when the profile is deleted at logoff the vault directory is lost and so are all the saved website passwords. So when we login to another server no saved website passwords are there.

So now we are testing with Universal Profile Disks. With UPD the localappdata folder is retained when logging into another server. BUT the credential manager is still not working properly.

When you save the passwords on server1 the passwords are saved in encrypted files in the users vault directory . When you login to server2 the files are still there but credential manager will not read them UNTIL you restart the credential manager service on that server.  When restarting the service then Credential manager will read the vault directory and show the saved passwords.

I think the solution is that when a user logs on to a server then credential manager will need to read the password files in the vault directory. But that is not the case.

I hope that someone can help because this is crazy. I also contacted MS support but had no luck finding a engineer that understands the problem.

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Problem with publishing remote APPs in server 2012

May 29, 2013, 11:46 pm

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Hello,

First sorry for my bad english :)

I have a problem with my server 2012 when publishing remoteapp program. This error shows with every program i want to publish? Can you please help me.

Error when trying to publish remote app: Failed: Coul not create a published application instance on the server: ......

error in event viewer under Microsoft\windows\RDMS-UI\ Admin log

Event ID 16393

Publishing Failed for RDSH Collection - RemoteApp name: Excel 2013  Collection name: ........ Failure: Could not create a published application instance on the server .......

Please i googled it and didnot find any solutions can someone help me?

RDS Broker database (RDCms) status "Recovery Pending" after reboots

January 18, 2019, 6:00 am

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Got an issue with my Windows Server 2016 Broker. Every time it boots the database goes in "Recovery Pending" and I need to flip it (take offline then online) to before starting the broker service again. As patch boots go at night I've got lots of angry users every time I come to work in the morning after a patch night. 

The Event Log spams: Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE'. Reason: Failed to open the explicitly specified database 'RdCms'. [CLIENT: <named pipe>]

"DBCC CHECKDB (RDCms, repair_allow_data_loss)"  reports no errors

Adding NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE to db_owner did not help. 

As this is an internal database I've got no backup from before the issues started. 

Anyone got a proper, permanent, solution? 

K.

RemoteApp per user environment variables

February 16, 2019, 3:07 pm

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I've seen a number of discussions on this topic but not sure I saw a solution.

My 3rd party app published RemoteApp doesn't pick up user environment variables.  If I run the app in Remote Desktop it picks up the user environment variables just fine.

Is this just a shortcoming of RemoteApp?  Is there a way around this?

RDP Users unable to send messages

February 17, 2019, 4:21 am

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Hi,

I have assigned message permission to a remote desktop user but still he is getting access denied message when he tries to send a message. He is able to send message only to the administrator user but not any other rdp user.

Windows 2008 R2 RDP

Any Suggestions?

Remote Desktop Services

February 17, 2019, 6:19 am

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as per the company policy we disabled the printer redirection within group policy. Now i want the users to print from Remote session is there any alternate way?