scenario 1: I can connect from a win8 client directly to a 2012 RDSH server and see that UDP is enabled in the connection status.

Scenario 2: When I connect from a win8 client and force the client to use the RD Gateway to connect to the same 2012 RDSH server the connection status shows that UDP is not enabled.

The network setup is all internal even when testing the RD Gateway.

The RD Gateway has the UDP transport box checked and is set to the default port 3391.

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I'm not able to find anything in regards to disabling Internet Explorer 10 on a 2008r2 standard server running remote desktop services.  

I figured it would be as simple as stripping the defaults and denying access through the control panel option, but apparently it's a little more complication than that.

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks!

Dear fellow MS techies,

I am trying to come up with a solution that can serve two geographically separated helpdesks with either RDS or a VDI solution.

The requirements/challenges are as follows:

• There are two helpdesk teams, that needs to use the same unified solution for their helpdesk support work. IE having a remote desktop solution that they can log on to and have all their support tools on etc.
  The challenge is that they are located in two very different geographical areas, with very poor connections in between.
• It must be a solution with some form of a master image. It is important that all remote desktops (servers or vdi) are uniform and can be easily updated.

I am thinking if its possible to make two collections where one or two servers are placed in the remote location and the rest at the central location. And then maybe direct the remote users to the remote Collection and central users to the central Collection by using security Groups?

The only thing is that they would have to connect to the connection broker in the central location - maybe thats a challenge if the connection is poor between the sites? And can i have multiple Collections but still one single golden image to deploy from?

Does anyone have a good solution to this - it would be much appreciated. Thank you.

hi,

i recently installed remote-desktop web-service on Windows 2008 R2 for remote user to access a non-proprietary Microsoft application.

the installation was made in one box include the application

a. Remote Dekstop Session Host
b. Remote Desktop Licensing
c. Remote Desktop Gateway
d. Remote Desktop Web Access

i have managed to configure it to allow internal and external users to access the application by using RDWeb.

there are 2 outstanding issues here:

1. i tested the RDWeb to access MS Office (Word/Excel) remoteapp and save a doc to local folder.

tried to save it into my local folder, but it always ended-up with an error :

"Network error: Windows cannot access \\tsclient\d\(any local folder given).   You do not have permission to access \\tsclient\d\.. " 

2. for non Microsoft remoteapp, is there a way (by Group Policy perhaps?) for rdweb-users to locate their local drive/folder within the application?

anyone has ideas to resolve it?

thank you in advance.

rgds.

Hello,

We have an existing farm with only one server in it now that is in production.  We have two other rdsh servers on the side that we are going to be adding into the farm.  Currently we are not using roaming profiles but would like to.  I know you can set the path for remote desktop profiles in user settings in AD or globally in group policy settings fro the rdsh servers.  I am trying to figure out the best way to introduce roaming profiles into the current 1 server farm and add the roaming profiles to the new servers before they are joined to the farm.  Can I do it per AD user settings to test things out on a few users and log into all three servers? If I make the change globally I don't want to have problems on the production server for all users. 

Dear All,

A client of ours has two RDS 2012 servers and one Broker. Loadbalancer works fine. But random users get temporary profiles.

The event logs has the following errors:

I have a RD Web Access (RDWA) pages for all user in my small company use software on it. But i have a big problem, please help me ? 

1. First, User A login RDWA in windows xp (PC A) for working (run programs). 

2. Second, User A also login RDWA in another pc ( not PC A) ex: PC B

3. Programs already run in PC A is disconnected, and programs will continue run on PC B. 

I would like one time, only user A using in PC A (first user login user A), and if PC B login it will be disconnect or have notification" Another user of your computer is currently using this connection.  This user must disconnect before you can log on"

Please help me ? I'm so sorry about my english I hope you understand

Hello,

I configured Microsoft VDI, using RDCB, RDWA, RDVH.

I checked redirection setting, plug & play device in collection settings and when I connected VDI,

And there are no image device in device manager.

I have to launch lync vedio chat in VDI.

Please help anything..

jinsu

Hi,

We have two domains, Domain-1 and Domain-2.  All servers 2012 or 2012R2.   Formerly we only had RDP services on Domain-1 but now we need a limited number of clients on Domain-2 too.  Domain-1's RDS licensing server contains a number of CALs never used.  How can we disable or transfer these never used CALs to the new Domain-2 RDS licensing server?

regards Tor

I am running Windows Server 2012 (x64) and I have remote desktop services running along with my RD Virtualization Host that is hosting about 10 Win 7 Enterprise virtual machines.  I have my collections setup and users are assigned their own virtual machine.

The end users connect to their VM via RDP (from a VPN connection from their office to the HQ office where all this is hosted).  The VPN connection is fine (because I can ping both networks back and forth and browse the network).

The issue I have, which is a mystery, is that the remote connections just stop.  No warning or anything.  If the user is already remotely connected, they get disconnected.  If a user tried to remote in, it won't happen.  So far, my only solution has been to just restart the server.  Which seems to clear up the issue for about 5-6 hours, until this happens again.  So, the past two days, I've restarted my server about 4-5 times.  That's not normal.

When I inspect the server:

• All services are running normally (file and storage services, hyper-v, IIS, NAP, Remote Desktop Services, local server.  All the services that need to be running are running
• Nothing in the Application or System event viewer to give me any clues

I have not tried to remotely connect to a virtual machine from inside the network (from the same LAN or subnet).  I'll have to try that if/when this problem happens again.

I can't find any issue that would cause this.  Inspecting the server, everything tells me there is not a single problem happening and any user should be able to connect to their virtual machine with no issue.  Maybe I missing something?  Not looking in the correct place?

Any help is greatly appreciated.  Thank you in advance for your help.

I have to say that this is probably the most frustrating thing I have ever worked on. I cannot remember having spent so much time over something that (in my opinion) should be easy.

As of now, i have Server1 which is the RD Broker, Web Access and Licensing server. Server2 is the RD Session host. More session hosts will be added in the future.

What i basically want is a session collection to which users can connect to, either by RDP directly or launch their Remote Apps that are either published on computer clients in the domain by Group policy, or via RD Web Access.

As i have understood, the redirection to the session collection is a bit different in 2012. In stead of creating a DNS zone for the session collection farm name with all the session hosts in it, you put the broker into the zone and then let it handle all the redirection to the different hosts. Ok, that sounds all nice, easy and dandy.

So through Server Manager on Server1 i create my session collection, set my public certificate that matches the farm and dns name and add my session host. Does it work? No.

I guess Microsoft failed to mention that you have to modify the registry on the broker to tell the RDP client to which session collection it should be redirected to, or else it will just try to connect directly to the broker. Or am i just not good enough when it comes to searching in Microsoft's seemingly endless maze of links to different topics on technet? Anyway, i did that and redirection worked with the RDP-client. 

And this is where my first problem came up. When connecting to the session collection with an RDP-client, i get the infamous certificate error, because of missmatch between the names of the session collection and the host name of Server2, my session host. But why? Is it not supposed to take care of this for me when i add my session host to the session collection via Server Manager on Server1? Well, if so - it doesn't. So i have to log on to my session host, import the public certificate for my session collection and set it on the RDP-Tcp listener. NOW, redirection to my session collection works without any certificate errors. Great.

Next i added my first Remote App through the Server Manager on Server1. The application itself is actually on Server2. And this is where my real headache starts.

Upon launching the Remote App i get a certificate error because of the mismatch between  the session collection name and the host name of my session host, Server2. But..i set the certificate on the listener, right? Yes, but the path to the Remote App is \\Server1\c$\foldername\software.exe - so when launching the remote app it still uses the host name of Server2, but since i have changed the RDP-Tcp listener, i now get a certificate missmatch again. This time, only when launching remote apps. An easy way to do this would be to change the path to the remote app to \\dns-name-of-session-collection\c$\foldername\software.exe". But i cannot do that, because my broker is the only one supposed to respond to that name since it is the one handling all the redirection.

I won't bother telling what i have tried, but i have lost track of the hours and days i have spent on this problem. But i can mention that through the entire process, SSO on the RD Web Access has not worked either, no matter what i have tried. What i am doing wrong?

The way i see it, i only have two options into solving the problem with the remote apps now. 

1. Create a secondary RDP-Tcp listener on the session host on a different port, and the publish my remote apps on this port. Is this possible in 2012 R2 by the way? Can i set custom ports on the remote apps within a session collection?

2. Probably the most viable solution. Buy a new, public wildcard certificate for the domain and set it on the listeners for all the involved servers. And then an additional DNS zone for my session hosts, so i can set a "common" path for the Remote Apps to avoid the certificate error.

When I log into an RDS server from a thin client I'm receiving the following error message:

System log generated
Warning Event 1130 on server2012-rds

For more information see http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=1130&source=Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-RemoteConnectionManager

Log: System
Type: Warning
Event: 1130
Alert Time: 2014-04-23 14:23:28Z

Event Time: 09:22:02 PM 23-Apr-2014 UTC
Source: Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-RemoteConnectionManager
Category: None
Username: N/A
Computer: RDS-2012.bretthauer.local
Description: The Remote Desktop Session Host server does not have a Remote
Desktop license server specified. To specify a license server for the Remote
Desktop Session Host server, use the Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration
tool.

I have the License Server set up and running, shows correct license information.  The Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration tool is not installed on the RDS server.  

What do I need to do here?

I've removed the profiles, both the files in c:\users and the reg. at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

I then created a brand new account, and tried it, still given a temp profile. I've added the user to Domain Admins, just for testing purposes, and did the same for the test user before the initial logon. I'm getting several related errors in the registry, User Profile Service 1508, 1515, and 1511. I've chased down several threads, many of which are for Server 2003 TS servers. Many mention memory issues, but this is a 2012 server with 64 GB of RAM.

One thing to be aware of is that this is a AD server. The long term solution is to use a different RDS Server altogether, this is more of a proof of concept for their remote users with tablets getting access to company files. Some proof of concept it's turning out to be. Anyway, I recently loaded KB2896328 to try and fix it, and will reboot it at 10 pm ET and see if it still has the issue. This is my latest attempt to troubleshoot, and I will report back this evening when it's been rebooted and attempted again. Oh, also, I've tried logging on locally using the same accounts after the profiles were cleared, still no joy.

I was hoping to get some other ideas in advance in case this doesn't resolve it, as I don't really expect it to. One final note, the server is fully updated, I just spent a good while going through all the updates to ensure the Update Rollups have all been installed. Thank you in advance for your time and assistance!

I've also done this: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/bf997fca-7191-43fb-9d06-51a82ab7a454/user-log-with-temp-profil-on-a-server?forum=winservergen

Hi, I hope you can help me.

We have a little phenomenon conecerning RDS and RemoteApps. I'll try to explain the situation as good as possible. If there is anything what's not clear, please just ask.

This is the situation:

USER A connects from a ThinClient (Windows 7 embedded) via mstsc to a RDS-Farm "FARM A" (Site A) (Windows Server 2008 R2 RDSH). From this session USER A opens a RemoteApp on "SERVER B" (Site B) (Windows Server 2008 R2 RDSH).

The RemoteApp on SERVER B is Navision 5 in which it is possible to navigate through the menu with CTRL+ALT+UP and CTRL+ALT+DOWN. But, the navigation with this hotkeys is not possible when the RemoteApp is opened from FARM A. Instead of changing the menu in Navision the RemoteApp becomes inactive (grey window) and nothing happens. And that's the problem.

More tests:

If USER A is opening the same RemoteApp directly from the ThinClient, the key-combination works as expected.

If USER A connects to the RemoteApp server (SERVER B) from FARM A with a normal mstsc session instead of the RemoteApp, then the hotkey works as intended as well.

I already checked the keyboardhook-settings of both RDP-connections, the FARM A file and the RemoteApp File. Both are set to

keyboardhook:i:1

so the key combinations should be recognized as normal on the remote-sessions.

Do you have any ideas?

Is there anything what I could test?

Do you need more information?

Thanks in advance!

Hi,

We have 6 terminal servers and have recently switched from NLB to Session broker using RR DNS. This method balances our users much better, but has introduced a new issue. After we make a change to the terminal servers (such as applying a patch) We like to log onto to each one with a user account and ensure everything is working as expected. But now we've found with session broker when we try to log directly onto a server we are redirected to the farm and put on the same server over and over again. We know about using mstsc /admin to log onto as admin, but this is not the functionality we want to test (are admin accounts can't do things the user account can such as access the internet, and there is a concern that if we are using an admin account it may mask an issue that the less privileged user accounts might have.

Thanks,

I am using latest version of RDP Client 6.1  from my local Windows 7 Enterprise system, as well as RDP Client 6.1 from a Windows 2008 R2 server.

When I connect to other Windows 2008 R2 servers, I am unable to increase the DPI settings.  In Control Panel > Ease of Access > Optimize Visual Display > Change the size of text and icons, I get a screen which says “The display settings can’t be changed from a remote session”.

This is unacceptable.  I am able to change this setting on any Windows 2008 (pre-R2) server in multiple environments.  When is MSFT going to fix this issue in R2?

I have seen other posts on this issue such as this one -- one person suggests exporting the registry settings under
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics and then to set them on my R2 server.

Can I export those registry keys from a 2008 (non-R2) server where I have set the DPI to 125%, and then import them onto the R2 server?

Thank you. 

Hi,

I have a problem with deleting 3 print drivers on one of our Terminal servers, it keep saying this:

Failed to remove driver HP LaserJet M3027 mfp PCL6. The specified printer driver is currently in use.
Failed to remove driver HP LaserJet M4345 mfp PCL6. The specified printer driver is currently in use.
Failed to remove package prnhp002.inf. Access is denied.

The reason of this removing, is that HP has finally made there Universal Driver for 2008 R2, and therefore want to clean up in old drivers on our 4 terminal servers.

I have tried to stop spool service, but then i can't get in to "Print Server Properties", where i can find the print drivers installed.

Is it because i choose "Remove driver and driver package"?
Or is it because the driver file are the same for for the old driver and the HP universal driver?

Please help...