Hello there!

Tha last couple of days I created a Lab-Environment with 1 DC, a Remotemanger with Gateway, Licencing and Broker Role installed and a Session Host. After a little Troubleshooting everything worked great.

After that I created a second DC and a Subdomain and a second SessionHost as well. The Second SessionHost (SessionHost2) joined the Subdomain. I managed to add the SessionHost2 to the Remotemanger in the rootdomain and installed the Sessionhost Role.

At that point, I'm pretty much stuck. My users from the sub domain can connect via Web Client without any problems, but I can't open any apps from my collection. I get this error pretty much constantly:

2019-02-08T09:40:41.703Z Connection(ERR): 
The connection generated an internal exception with disconnect code=ConnectionBroken(8), extended code=<null>, reason=WebSocket closed with code: 1006 reason: 
 Thrown in thread 396952 at:
    websockettransport.cpp(330)
Call Stack:
        at Rjb
        at Ojb
        at rp
        at Ugd

Now I tried pretty much everything I could think of. This all happens in the same Subnet with Windows Firewalls turned off.

Is this some kind of missing priviliges of the Subdomain-Users to authorize against the remotemanger in the root domain? Or is there a general Problem with a remotemanger in another domain as the session host?

For explanation: Iur company wants to offer hosted services in the future and wants to make sure, that different customers absolutely can't establish any connection to another company's hosts. If there is another way to acomplish that I would be very happy.

Thank you very much for your interest and input !

Hello,

We have noticed an issue after adding an RDCB (Remote Desktop Connection Broker) to our existing collection for high availability. One thing to note is that all of our RDS servers are running Windows Server 2016 Standard.

Here is what our situation was before adding in the RDCB:

• Running one RDCB
• Running one RDWA (RD Web Access)
• Running one RDG (RD Gateway)
• Running three RDSH (RD Session Host)
• All three of the RDSHs are set up to publish RemoteApps AND desktops. This was done by editing the ShowInPortalvalue from 0 to 1 in the below registry key. This made it so the desktop shortcut would appear in the RDWeb portal.
  
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Terminal Server\CentralPublishedResources\PublishedFarms\(collection name)\RemoteDesktops\(collection name)
  
  
• We found that if we ever made changes to our RemoteApps (i.e. publishing a new remoteapp, unpublishing one, etc.) then that above registry value would default back to 0, thus resulting in the Desktop shortcut in the RDWeb portal to disappear. We were okay with this because we rarely made changes to our remoteapps, and it was just a part of our procedure to add the desktop shortcut back in.

Now comes the interesting part. Here is our situation now:

• Running two RDCBs for high availability.
  
• Running one RDWA (RD Web Access)
• Running one RDG (RD Gateway)
• Running three RDSHs (RD Session Host)
• Whenever we make ANY changes to ANYof our RDS Collection settings, that ShowInPortal value defaults back to 0. The strange thing is that it doesn't happen immediately. We find that theShowInPortal value defaults back to 0 after a short amount of random time (5-15 minutes). And when we say any changes, we really mean it. Something as simple as disallowing new connections to any of our RDSHs (so that we can patch servers during business hours), causes the ShowInPortal to revert to 0. This was never the case before we added a second RDCB for high availability.
• Everything worked great with one RDCB. As soon as we added the second RDCB, then we noticed this issue.
• When the issue does occur, we have to change the ShowInPortal value to 1 on both RDCBs for the desktop shortcut to appear in the RDWeb portal
  

Now we're in a position where our RDS Collection is very fragile. Any setting we touch causes thatShowInPortal value to revert to 0 and it's a pain in the butt. As a hacky way to work around this issue, we've set up a scheduled task that automatically sets theShowInPortal value to 1 every single minute. This, obviously, is not a solution we want to continue with and is more of a band-aid approach until we can find the root issue.

So my question becomes, does anyone know why adding in a second RDCB for high availability cause theShowInPortal value to reset after any change we make? Again, this was never the case before when we had only one RDCB.

Hi,

So nothing like being on the cutting edge......

I have been testing Server 2019 RDS and so-far-so-good apart from an issue with the Windows Search Service.

It appears that in Server 2019 each user gets their own search database EDB file in their profile path (appdata\roaming). e.g.

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\S-1-5-21-3901271148-1553943383-1671037523-1629\S-1-5-21-3901271148-1553943383-1671037523-1629.edb

When they log on and log off; this is connected to the search service and the following event log is generated

Source:ESENT
EventID: 326
SearchIndexer (10896,D,50) S-1-5-21-3901271148-1553943383-1671037523-1629: The database engine attached a database (3, C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\S-1-5-21-3901271148-1553943383-1671037523-1629\S-1-5-21-3901271148-1553943383-1671037523-1629.edb). (Time=0 seconds)

Unfortunately it appears that this process is not very stable and on some logons the database in the users profile does not attach and the following error is generated

Source:Search
EventID: 3057
The plug-in manager <Search.TripoliIndexer> cannot be initialized.
Context: S-1-5-21-3901271148-1553943383-1671037523-1629 Application

Source:Search
EventID: 3028
The gatherer object cannot be initialized.
Context: S-1-5-21-3901271148-1553943383-1671037523-1629 Application, SystemIndex Catalog
Details: The specified object cannot be found. Specify the name of an existing object.  (HRESULT : 0x80040d06) (0x80040d06)

And a few more similar but related errors....

No subsequent logon/off will succeed in attaching the database until the Windows Search service is restarted

I am not testing with User Profile Disks or Roaming Profiles
There is no AV on the server

Any ideas?

Andy

Andrew

Hello!

I use MsTsc ActiveX control to add RDP functionality to my WPF application. The control is hosted inside WinFormsHost control. My application hangs on shutdown from time to time. Here is the stacktrace of the hanging thread:

Is there a way to debug this issue? MsTsc version is 10.0.17134.

Regards,

Igor.

I'm new to the windows server world and have been asked to check if any of them use SPLA. How would I do this?

I checked to see if any of them run RDS services and one of the servers does as well, how can I check CALs?

I have a typical RDS setup. I have a connection broker and 5 hosts. I manage the system. One of the hosts is just for our dev environment. We are mostly using remoteapp.

I want to delegate permission so our dev users can only enable/disable an RDS host to accept new connect for a particular host.

I don't want to give them the ability to do enable/disable the rest of the production hosts. They will be doing this through the gui or through PowerShell.

thanks!

Hi All,

I have following problem.

Somehow and I don't now why, the UVHD-template.vhdx is gone.

Is there a way to recreate this template disk?

Thanks in advance

Jean

Good afternoon all;

I have an issue and not sure how to complete this.

2012 R2 for all servers
2 connection brokers in HA, 1 license server, 1 web access server, and 5 session hosts

There are 2 session collections on there. One of them is very old and was setup by someone else. this one works fine and when people click on the RDP full desktop icon ( Not a published Remote Desktop MSTSC Remoteapp). They get all settings prefilled correctly, RDP to the connection Broker farm name, with the RD gateway...it all works.

Put in a new session collection to 2 new session hosts that were put up for this purpose.

Everything works EXCEPT the prefilling of RDP settings, as of right now they come in blank.
How do I get this to be prefilled like the old session collection?

Every time I try to modify the deployment using

Set-RDsessionCollectionConfiguration -CollectionName XXXXX -CustomRdpProperty "full address:s:broker.example.com gatewayhostname:s:rdp.example.com" -ConnectionBroker ZZZZZZ

Whenever I try to apply this it looks like its going to apply but gives
You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression 
"At line:1 char:1"

Can anyone help me get through this? or some other way to apply those settings? I was poking at this for hours today and can't find a reason why this is not applying.

I even tried copying the custom RDP session deployment configuration reg keys for the old one into the new session but that didn't work.

Goofball

I have two RDS servers running Server 2012, and since a couple of days users are reporting they get disconnected often. In the eventlogs, I found a couple of events where a user was disconnected without further information. I also found a lot of "Failed to create KVP sessions string" events. I couldn't find any relevant information about this event, but it appears the most at moments when users are being disconnected from the RDS server.

This is the event:

Log Name:      Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-RemoteConnectionManager/Operational
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-RemoteConnectionManager
Date:          3/12/2013 10:01:26 AM
Event ID:      1152
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:     
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      TS02.contoso.com
Description:
Failed to create KVP sessions string. Error Code 0x8007007A
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-RemoteConnectionManager" Guid="{C76BAA63-AE81-421C-B425-340B4B24157F}" />
    <EventID>1152</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x1000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-03-12T09:01:26.771581100Z" />
    <EventRecordID>11344</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="836" ThreadID="840" />
    <Channel>Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-RemoteConnectionManager/Operational</Channel>
    <Computer>TS02.contoso.com</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
  </System>
  <UserData>
    <EventXML xmlns="Event_NS">
      <Param1>2147942522</Param1>
    </EventXML>
  </UserData>
</Event>

Does someone have any idea what might cause this error? Thanks!

Hello!

I need help with the following scenario ... I currently have a Terminal Services server that contains an application, which must be used through a network drive, users access remote desktop media to the server and use the shortcuts of the applications that point to the shared unit, for example, the X :

Now it is required to do the same but through RemoteApps, but when trying to add the path of the applications, from the network unit, I do not or can not, from C: if it does it without problems, but I need to add it to point to the network unit ... how could I do this?

Thank you

Hello,

We have a Windows Server 2016 box that is being used for users to remote in to their computers by way of RDWeb. Every time someone goes to the website to login we we get the following Warning logged in events:

Event code: 3005 
Event message: An unhandled exception has occurred. 
Event time: 10/26/2018 10:49:47 AM 
Event time (UTC): 10/26/2018 2:49:47 PM 
Event ID: 00f90daa62f94580925cf71413f5874d 
Event sequence: 5 
Event occurrence: 1 
Event detail code: 0 
Application information: 
    Application domain: /LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT/RDWeb/Pages-6-131850389869549350 
    Trust level: Full 
    Application Virtual Path: /RDWeb/Pages 
    Application Path: C:\WINDOWS\Web\RDWeb\Pages\ 
    Machine name: XXXXXX 
Process information: 
    Process ID: 5096 
    Process name: w3wp.exe 
    Account name: IIS APPPOOL\RDWebAccess 
Exception information: 
    Exception type: NullReferenceException 
    Exception message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at Microsoft.TerminalServices.Publishing.Portal.FormAuthentication.TSFormAuthTicketInfo..ctor(HttpContext objHttpContext)
   at ASP.en_us_default_aspx.<GetAppsAsync>d__0.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
   at System.Web.UI.PageAsyncTaskManager.<ExecuteTasksAsync>d__3.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
   at System.Web.UI.Page.<ProcessRequestAsync>d__554.MoveNext()

 
 
Request information: 
    Request URL: https://XXXXXXXXX:443/RDWeb/Pages/en-US/Default.aspx 
    Request path: /RDWeb/Pages/en-US/Default.aspx 
    User host address: XXXXXXXX 
    User:  
    Is authenticated: False 
    Authentication Type:  
    Thread account name: IIS APPPOOL\RDWebAccess 
 
Thread information: 
    Thread ID: 115 
    Thread account name: IIS APPPOOL\RDWebAccess 
    Is impersonating: False 
    Stack trace:    at Microsoft.TerminalServices.Publishing.Portal.FormAuthentication.TSFormAuthTicketInfo..ctor(HttpContext objHttpContext)
   at ASP.en_us_default_aspx.<GetAppsAsync>d__0.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
   at System.Web.UI.PageAsyncTaskManager.<ExecuteTasksAsync>d__3.MoveNext()
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
   at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
   at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)
   at System.Web.UI.Page.<ProcessRequestAsync>d__554.MoveNext()
Custom event details: 

Hi

I've been messing around with trying to get remotefx usb redirection to work, at the moment i just need a mouse to work through it.

my setup:

Host: Running Windows 10 Enterprise 64bit, it have a connected monitor, mouse and keyboard.

Client: Running Windows 10 Enterprise 64bit, not much else to say about this.

I've setup the needed group policies for this to work on both ends.

When i connect from the client to the host, and i select my 2nd mouse to be redirected, in the remote desktop program, the mouse gets detected and installed, and i can even find it on the device manager on the host, but i the cursor is not moving at all, no responds from the right or left click either, still it gets detected.

I can setup my phone to be redirected, but not the mouse, it simply doesnt work.

Is there any solution to this problem?

Had to uninstall my RDS services and reinstall. When I try to change the WorkSpace name through powershell I get this error.

Set-RDWorkspace : Failed to update the workspace on RD Connection Broker server RDS.DOMAIN.COM.
Error: Exception calling "Put" with "0" argument(s): ""
At line:1 char:1
+ Set-RDWorkspace -Name "My Company"
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Write-Error], WriteErrorException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WriteErrorException,Set-RDWorkspace

Any ideas? I am running powershell as admin.

Thanks, The_Techguy

Set up:

Server2016 Hyper V Guest 
Remote Desktop Gateway
Remote Desktop Licensing
RD Web Access
RD Connection Broker

Server2016 Hyper V Guest
RD Session host

Internal FQDN: Domain.Company.Local
External FQDN: company.ca

SSL Cert Wildcard: *.company.ca

DNS redirects remote.company.ca > external IP on firewall

Firewall port forwards RDP requests to Remote Desktop Gateway via custom port :9999 (443 was taken and my firewall didn't redirect through a WAF well with RDP so this worked)
Custom Port was set in transport options on remote desktop.

Initial setup worked fine, imported the SSL certs (which are now expired) then I updated the server to the HTML 5 client.

That worked until the certs expired, I replaced the certs first in the remote desktop gateway manager then in the Server Manager > Remote Desktop Gateway Overview > Collection Properties (selected the new cert for each, hit apply)

Checked IIS binding, its now the new cert.  Did IIS reset, and rebooted server to make sure changes took.

The portal gets the new cert just fine back to secure padlock in browser.  When launching an app though I get a certificate error:

I verified the thumbprint against the cert and all was correct.  I hadn't changed the FQDN from the setup before, and even tried rolling back the server and checking, as soon as I swap the cert out in any of the places it breaks the FQDN external being different from internal hoops I had to jump through originally.

Oddly if I go to /rdweb and use the non-html5 method the remote apps fire up and launch just fine.

What am I missing here?

Hello

I have set up a RD Gateway and VPN on server 2019

I have set this up and it is working but am receiving a warning about the licencing "Remote Desktop licensing mode is not configured, RDS will stop working in X days' I believe this is due to having to install the RD connection broker, RD Web Access, RD Session Host when installing the RDS role.

Will my RD Gateway or VPN stop working after the number of days the warning specified or does this only affect the RD Connection Broker? 

Is there a way to install the RD Gateway Role on server 2019 without installing the connection broker, session host and web access?

Thanks

A few users are experiencing this problem.

Event ID: 5973

Activation of app Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_cw5n1h2txyewy!CortanaUI failed with error: The remote procedure call failed. See the Microsoft-Windows-TWinUI/Operational log for additional information.

And event ID: 1000

Faulting application name: ShellExperienceHost.exe, version: 10.0.14393.2125, time stamp: 0x5a990817
Faulting module name: Windows.UI.Xaml.dll, version: 10.0.14393.2125, time stamp: 0x5a9909e5
Exception code: 0xc000027b
Fault offset: 0x00000000006d710b
Faulting process id: 0x6b78
Faulting application start time: 0x01d3c1fbf1890ced
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\SystemApps\ShellExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\ShellExperienceHost.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\System32\Windows.UI.Xaml.dll
Report Id: 7c1dae0b-eec7-416c-b5c9-5148b1bc7ba6
Faulting package full name: Microsoft.Windows.ShellExperienceHost_10.0.14393.2068_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy
Faulting package-relative application ID: App

When this happens the start menu will not work. This corresponds with me enabling the roaming of C:\Users\user\AppData\Local

I'm wondering if there is a folder I should exclude from roaming.

If it's not being caused by roaming the local folder then it may be caused by some GPO settings I also changed. I did this because windows search was out of control and consuming too many resources. Unfortunately I cannot disable search completely because of Outlook. My discussion on Outlook and search I had to re enable indexing outlook.

Any guidance on this is appreciated.

So far the only fix I've come up with is temporary, which is to delete the local profile and on the next login the start menu works. After a day or 2 it stops working again. I haven't totally recreated the user profile and I'm hoping this is not the ultimate fix because that would be a PITA to have to do that for all the users that have this happen.

I'm trying to set up 2019 RDS to replace our 2008R2 Terminal Server.  I used this paper as a guide, but did not publish any apps, just using session based desktops: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Windows-Server-2016-Remote-ffc383fe

I have a broker server, gateway server, web server and two session hosts.  Licensing server is running on the broker server but not activated yet.  I also haven't enabled the gateway server yet as I'm just testing internally. So far I have just one collection pointing to one of the session host servers. We are not testing any remote apps, just session based desktops.

Here's the problem:

• I'm able to initially get two users connected (either directly on the broker server, or through the Remote Desktop Web Access page) If a third tries to connect, it hangs at a black screen and eventually gives the message "failed to reconnect to your remote session.  Please try to connect again".  I would expect to see a message about not enough licenses or do you want to bump someone else off.
• During the black screen time, and before the error message, the active two users get bumped off, but then automatically reconnect.
• If I then log off one or both of the active users, I'm unable to log anyone into the server again.  They all get the black screen and the error message.  At this point I'm only able to log into the server on the console.  The only way to fix this is to reboot the broker server, and the cycle begins again.

Here's what shows up in the Event Viewer on the Broker server:

• When active users get bumped out theTerminalServices-LocalSessionManager log shows an error like this: “Session 3 has been disconnected, reason code 3489660929”. Also shows reason codes 12 and 0.  Also get this error in the same log: “An error occurred when transitioning from CsrConnected in response to EvCsrInitialized. (ErrorCode 0x80070102)”

• In the RemoteDesktopServices-RdpCoreTS Operational log, we get lots of weird errors:

-TCP socket READ operation failed, error 10054”; “RDP_TCP: An error was encountered when transitioning from StateUnknown in response to Event_Disconnect (error code 0x80072746).”;

-RDP_SEC: An error was encountered when transitioning from FStateProcessingData in response to FEventPostReceiveFailed (error code 0x80072746).”

-RDP_SEC: An error was encountered when transitioning from FStatePassthrough in response to FEventCheckAndCompleteReadsFailed (error code 0x8007139F)”.

-Failed InputMgr->GetHandles' in CUMRDPConnection::GetInputHandles at 4043 err=[0x80070102]”; “'GetInputHandles Failed' in CUMRDPConnection::GetInputHandles at 1401 err=[0x80070102]”

Here’s what I’ve tried:

• All servers are updated
• Removed and recreated my collection
• Rebooted many times
• Restarted the Windows Audio service
• Tried both from the RD Web Access page and directly connecting to the Broker server
• Tried disabling firewalls on all RDS servers

I’m kind of at a loss and it’s driving me bananas. Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

George Moore

Is there or will Microsoft announce some kind of the API for the Microsoft Azure RemoteApp? 

Thanks.

Windows Remote Desktop Connection (mstsc) saves the remote computer name like this:

full address:s:rdsh1.whatever.microsoft.com

But if mstsc is launched via Remote Desktop Web Access, the used rdp files have the following content:

full address:s:rdsh1.whatever.microsoft.com
alternate full address:s:rdsh1.whatever.microsoft.com

If an rdp file contains "alternate full address" then "full address" seems to be ignored completely, even if "alternate full address" cannot be resolved.

What is "alternate full address", what is the difference to "full address" and where is the documentation for these settings?

Thanks for any hints!

Note:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/rdpappcontainerclient/nf-rdpappcontainerclient-iremotedesktopclientsettings-setrdpproperty is not helping since that documentation merely converts the setting name into a sentence ;)