hello all,
I appreciate any feedback on this question. we are trying to have six users work remotely from outside the office. We have an server 2012 r2 in a workgroup environment. No RDS licenses.
are we able to set up VPN through the router for six users to log in to the server at same time if there are no RDS licenses? Or can we set up VPN directly to six computers desktops using the router.
Thank you
We're running a single RDS setup with Windows Server 2016 Standard and about 2 weeks back we started to experience Windows Start Menu and Taskbar issues where these functions would suddenly stop working for all of the RDS users. We are not using profile disks and each user connects to the RDS via our gateway server and their profile is stored locally on the RDS server. No desktop or Start Menu redirection is setup. We have 25 RDS CALs and there's normally about 20 users logged into the RDS server. The server is a physical server running a 12core Intel CPU with 32Gb of RAM and an NVME SSD Intel disk.
The desktop apps like Microsoft Office will continue to function fine but if you minimize the running apps, the user can not click on the minimized apps as the Taskbar doesn't respond along with the Start Menu. The only thing that currently works is to logout the user session using Task Manager or to reboot the server. When the user reconnects and gets a new session, the Start Menu and Taskbar will work for several hours before it goes back to the locked state.
I have read quite a few posts and I have re-installed the Windows apps with the following PS script:
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”}
I have run a full sfc /scannow and checked the health of the windows image. These all complete fine without issue.
Tonight I have found some older posts from 2017 about Server 2016 RDS black screens that are caused by duplicate Windows firewall rules getting created for each user every time they login. While we don't have the black screen issue, I'm wondering if our issues with the Start Menu and Taskbar could be related to this same duplicate firewall rules for each user. When I checkedHKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\RestrictedServices\Configurable\System on our RDS, I am seeing thousands of entries.
Does anyone know if these duplicate firewall rules can cause the Start Menu and Taskbar issues? If so, what's the proper way to delete them?
Thanks for any input.
Ken
We have installed Server 2016 and installed Remote desktop services and license activated on the server.
When we connect to the server 2016 from windows PC and its connecting without any issue.
But when when we connect through Ncomputing Vspace session thin client and we are getting the below error message.
Please help on this issue.
Thanks
Krishna
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?
Hi everyone,
This is my first post in this website ! :)
I try to deploy an RDS solution with 3 RDS Server (Windows Server 2016) and 1 RDS Broker (Windows Server 2016).
All servers are in VMWARE Environment
My RDS servers have RemoteApp (1 per server) and I have an issue with one.
First I deploy my RemoteApp, no problems, no errors messages.
Next, I connect to my Web RemoteApp Work Ressources and I download the RemoteApp file (.rdp file)
Now Impossible to open it because the application can't find the remote computer. When I edit the rdp file I have some missing arguments :
I try to remove my RDS server VM and create new one with the same name, but same problem.
In this example I tried to deploy calc32 in RemoteApp.
When I go in regedit I see that arguments are missing but I don't know why.
If y ou have ideas to repair, Thanks for your future answers!
Sincerely, :)
Hi All,
I have created a DC and I have 5 servers which have to be using RDS User CAL Licensing. DC is one of the 5 Servers that I have.
Now I have added all the machines to the Domain that I have created and also configured the Licensing Role as required, but now the servers are disconnected stating that it has passed the grace period. I have a User CAL License available with me. Below details are configured as per the requirement on of them
RD Licensing / RD Session Host / RD Gateway - All Servers
RD Connection Broker / RD Web Access - only on one server which is not a DC
I want to activate the license and make sure I have access to all the 5 Servers which are configured in the same domain.
Kindly suggest if any changes with the gpedit.msc is required or with the regedit which I presume shouldn't be done as I have a proper license available.
I would like to configure the existing mis-configuration to be corrected. Let me know what kind of details you need in order for me to get this fixed.
Hello, I am trying to access an EMR system for a new client and have been able to access it from my personal computer and from other computers, but not from my work laptop. I keep getting the error message " You're computer can't connect to the Remote Desktop Gateway server. Please contact your system administrator for assistance." when I try to connect. I have spoken to as many system administrators as I could, have worked with two different IT teams, and no one can seem to figure out what is wrong! If anyone has any ideas of how to fix this I would greatly appreciate it! Thank you!
I am using a remoteapp application from a windows server 2019 setup. During this remoteapp session I am getting a popup concerning upgrading a malwarebytes subscription on the server.
I do not want users using a remoteapp to be seeing popups from the server ... how do I get rid of them from showing?
Invoke-WmiMethod -Class Win32_TSLicenseReport -Name GenerateReportEx
I am trying to apply a third-party wildcard cert to a RDS server farm. The .pfx is imported successfully for the RD Connection Broker roles, but gives an error "Could not configure the certificate on one or more servers..." when I apply it to RD Web Access. In the Event log, this generates event ID 20480 "Property page: Manage certificates update failed: due to Exception Failed to enumerate server SSL certificate information."
This is an internal farm, with no RD Gateway server, 1 Connection broker/Licensing/Web Access server, and three additional session hosts.
Hey RDS techies,
I have a license server with 30 Per device CALs installed on it. I've got another 45 Per user CALs now but by mistake I have installed them as Per Device CALs on same license server which created another keypack ID in licensing manager for these 45 CALs. All these 30+45 CALs are issued now, however, I would like to remove these 45 Per deivce CALs keypack now and want to install them as Per User CALs.
Is it possible ? I'm not sure if the "Convert partial/full licenses" option that is shown in licensing manager works here!
Also, I have come across below commands to uninstall particular keypacks from licensing manager,
Get-WmiObjectWin32_TSLicenseKeyPack
wmic /namespace:\\root\CIMV2 PATH Win32_TSLicenseKeyPack CALL UninstallLicenseKeyPackWithId X
So, do these commands give our RDS CALs back once it uninstalls them from particular keypack ???
I was thinking that, this only removes the entries from licensing manager but doesn't give our CALs back to re-use them!
Any help in clarifying these would be much helpful. Thanks in advance!
Hi there
Having issues with an RDS connection to a new 2012 R2 Server, fully updated, issue occurs to all Clients simultaneously. Sometimes brief disconnection (2 - 3 seconds) sometimes a lot longer.
Already performed the "keep alive=1" group policy hack but still happening.
Event ID40 reason codes 0 and 5 mainly - yet my licensing all checks out OK? I have 50 RDS cals but only 7 users - Ive split them into 25 per device and 25 per user to see if it makes any difference (No)
However The License diagnoser states that ZERO licenses have been issued? Is this a problem? Too much of a Noob to know myself.
many thanks
Hi. We have a new WS2016 RDS deployment (VMs on Hyper-V):
- 2x WS2016 RDGW in NLB
- 2x RDCB in HA configuration
- couple RDSH servers
The problem is that in 30-50% of the connection attempts via these gateways, the connection is stuck at the "Configuring remote session" message. The connection is never successfully estabilished when this happens and it is closed without any error couple minutes later. When you try again (or just immediatelly cancel the connection and reconnect), the connection may or may not go through.
When this problem happens, I can see there's single HTTP connection on the RDGW that accepted the connection with 0 bytes transferred in either direction. There are no related errors at this time.
Can anyone help? Btw. this problem also happens when connecting to a different single-host RDS deployment through these gateways.
I suspected the problem might be in the NLB, but removing either of the gateways from the NLB configuration (and from RDS farm) doesn't help, the issue is still there.
Rebooting the gateways helps for a short while (hours), but then the issue is back.
There are some other errors on the gateways, but these don't correlate to the connection attempts (event 210, source terminalservices-gateway: "Http transport: IN channel could not find a corresponding OUT channel" with no other details).
RDP clients are various ... W8.1, W10, Mac...
Hi,
I am facing an issue with published application which is hosted in RD session host.
The Event viewer application logs shows as 4005 -[Windows logon process has unexpectedly terminated]
when we are launching the application via RD web access, it just simply hangs and it process nothing.
Thanks,
Rocxie Dan
I am looking at deploying around 8 Terminal server across our offices. All offices are in the same domain and interconnected. At the central site I am looking at deploying the licensing server. Am I right in thinking that I can use 1 central licensing server to allot the licenses?
Next am I also right in thinking that RDS user cals are allotted to each specific user and cannot be reallocated to another user (So not concurrent users but specific named users) and the only way to release the license would be to remove them from the AD.
We would also be looking to run MS office on each Terminal server, How does the licensing work for this, so for example if I have an office with 5 TS users do I need to buy 5 Open licenses for office and 5 RDS user cals. (we do not use Office 365) Or can I buy an open license for 40 copies of office and 40 RDS users?
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?
I have a Server with Server 2016 Standard installed with the Essentials Role, I also have 5 RDS licenses. Can I enable RDS licensing on this server and activate the5 licenses for RDS to work without breaking RWW?
I can't find a definitive answer.
Thank you
When I try to connect using RDP the host screen turns black and remains black after remote client disconnects. If I then try to reconnect, the remote shows the same black screen as the host. If I disconnect the remote and retry connection I continue to get black screen unless I delete credentials and manually enter the same password as was previously saved. The connection is then shows the actual screen.
However, when remote client is disconnected the host remains stuck on black screen and unresponsive to any keyboard input. Cntl+Alt+Delete does nothing. The monitor power light is blue which indicates the monitor is not in a sleep mode, but display is hung on black. The only way I have found to bring it back is to hold the power off button for 10 seconds, then restart.
I have tried:
-reverting back to the Microsoft generic driver by deleting display driver
-booting in safe mode
-doing a clean boot with all services disabled except Microsoft, Intel and Acer, plus all startup programs except for core essential
-disabling persistent bitmap caching on client machine in RDP experience tab
-changing colors to 24 bit
-changing Local Policy on host machine [Use WDDM graphics display driver for Remote Desktop Connections] to Disabled.
I have also tried all the suggestions at this link
https://www.kapilarya.com/fix-black-screen-with-remote-desktop-in-windows-10
...except for installing the suggested patch because that patch seems to be for 1903
I had the same problem with an earlier build but there was a patch that fixed it. But with the latest update, it's back.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
djroller
I currently have 2008R2 TS server. I have purchased new RDS cals for 2019 and a server license.
I have the RDS cals installed on the license server ok.
What roles do I need to install for RDS. I have selected the quick setup for RDS in Add Roles Features but this installed Remote Apps and Web Gateway.
I dont require these roles, I would just like a Sessions host server as it will be internal only for around 10 users.
Is this possible? Can the apps and gateway be removed?
Many thanks
Hi all,
We have made a RDS Farm to deploy a Virtual App. After configuring the roles, we have this structure:
server 1 and 2 are in DMZ VLAN, and server 3, 4 and 5 in midd VLAN. To publish our public DNS, we use a pool into VIP F5 that balance the connections with Round Robin mode and assign a static public IP to this DNS.
All roles are in HA: RD bróker have a DNS RR register with the server 1 and 2 IP, RDGateway is duplicated on both servers, RD Web Access and IIS is installed on both servers and the RDSH role is blanacing via RDBokrer service.
The question is: Is possible to check the health status of every role (RD Gateway, RD Bróker and RD Web Access) to remove of the F5 pool the machine when some role is out of service in a server1 or 2 ?
Thanks!
Gerardo,