As everybody knows, RDP session quality... it's all about network latency. Ping quality = RemoteApp quality. LAN is the best way to be happy. So, what should I do for my RDP clients dispersed through cities and airports? How could they connect to nearest server? Has the Connection Broker or the RD Gateway an ability of choosing closest server to connect to?

Load Balancing works strongly with Round Robin only, and it arranges clients by relative wight of server. But what if any servers of mine have enough resources to serve any quantity of clients? What if latency and quality comes over the resource balancing?

Is there any way out?

I have been struggling with trying to create a shadowed RDP session on windows 2012 R2

I have read many many web sites but still cant get it to work right.

I have added all the roles to the server. (I think now I have added too many of all the remote things, but anyway)

Now when I go to Manager I see IIS and Remote desktop on LHS.

I click on RD and then Collections.

Currently Im logged in via RD and I open a second session via RD using the same administrator name.

However I cannot see any Connections in the connections column on the RHS. Not one. I try the search mechanism under user and use domain\loginname  eg ibm\admin2

Why cant I see any connections ???

Is there more that I need to do?

Thanks

Hi,

I have a network/domain corp.fabrikam.com with a domain controller, CA and RDP Server. I have a smartcard with a valid smart card logon certificate issued with subjectCN=John Doe and SAN entry of Principal Name=john.doe@corp.fabrikam.com, issued by the CA. This lets me logon locally and remotely to all three servers from each other (i.e. within the domain).

Enterprise PKI health viewer reports all healthy, the CDP and AIA fields have HTTP as the primary location and are accessible anonymously etc. Everything seems fine.

I have a Windows 8 laptop on a domain corp.contoso.com logged in as john@corp.contoso.com. This laptop is then taken to the network with domain corp.fabrikam.com (and for clarity unable to connect to corp.contoso.com at all).

If I try and RDP from the Windows 8 laptop (laptop.corp.contoso.com) to RDS-SH.corp.fabrikam.com and authenticate with the smart card, I get the error:

The remote computer that you are trying to connect to requires Network Level Authentication (NLA), but your Windows domain controller cannot be contacted to perform NLA. If you are an administrator on the remote computer, you can disable NLA by using the options on the Remote tab of the System Properties dialog box.

If I run a trace on Network Monitor, I can see the laptop trying to lookup SRV records for it's own (corp.contoso.com) domain controller. Why would it try and do this? Why would it need to contact it's own DC to connect and authenticate to a RDS-SH server on another domain/forest with no trust?

Thanks,

Andrew.

Problem Summary:

A UTF-8 without BOM Web RoE XML file output from a line of business application will not drag and drop copy nor copy/paste from a Server 2012 R2 RD Session Host running RD Gateway to a Windows 7 Remote Desktop client over an RDP 8.1 connection and the Drive Redirection virtual channel hangs.  The same issue affects a test client/server with only Remote Desktop enabled on the server.

Other files copy with no issue.  See below for more info.

Environment:

Server 2012 R2 Standard v6.3.9600 Build 9600

• the production server runs RDS Session Host and RD Gateway roles (on the same server).  BUT,
• the issue can be reproduced on a test machine running this OS with simply Remote Desktop enabled for Remote Administration

Windows 7 Pro w SP1v6.1.7601 SP1 Build 7601 running updates to support RDP 8.1

More Information:

-the file is a UTF-8 w/o BOM (Byte Order Marker) file containing XML data and has a .BLK extension.  It is a Web Record of Employment (RoE) data file exported from the Maestro accounting application.
-the XML file that does not copy does successfully validate against CRA's validation XML Schema for Web RoE files

-Video redirection is NOT AFFECTED and continues to work
-the Drive Redirection virtual channel can be re-established by disconnecting/reconnecting
-when the copy fails, a file is created on the client and is a similar size to the original.  However, the contents are incomplete.  The file appears blank but CTRL-A shows whitespace

-we can copy the contents into a file created with Notepad and then that file, which used to copy, will then NOT copy
-the issue affects another Server 2012 R2 test installation, not just the production server
-it also affects other client Win7 Pro systems against affected server
-the issue is uni-directional i.e. copy fails server to client but succeeds client to server

-I don't notice any event log entries at the time I attempt to copy the file.

What DOES WORK

-downgrading to RDP 7.1 on the client WORKS
-modifying the file > 2 characters -- either changing existing characters or adding characters (CRLFs) WORKS
-compressing the file WORKS e.g. to a ZIP file
-copying OTHER files of smaller, same, and larger sizes WORKS


What DOES NOT WORK?

-changing the name and/or extension does not work
-copying and pasting affected content into a text file that used to have different content and did copy before, then does not work
-Disabling SMB3 and SMB2 does not work
-modifying TCP auto-tuning does not work
-disabling WinFW on both client and server does not work

As noted above, if I modify the affected file to sanitize it's contents, it will work, so it's not much help.  I'm going to try to get a sample file exported that I can upload since I can't give you the original.

Your help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks.

Kevin

Hi everyone,

I am trying to enable password change on RDWeb for users but when a user tries to reset the password he receives the following error:

Your new password does not meet the length, complexity, or history requirements of your domain. Try choosing a different new password.

I saw there is a hotfix for that but it is only applicable for 2008R2 and 2012 RTM.

I am using 2012R2.

By the way password reset was not enabled by default so I had to enable it from IIS (password.aspx = true).

Please advise how to troubleshoot this problem and how to solve it!

Thanks!

Regards,

Ognyan

Has anyone a solution to this problem of the sound just dropping out of a RDP connection after a day or two?

Win Server2008 (32 bit) running as a Terminal Server.

WIN 7 Clients (32 bit)

Sound is absolutely critical on the program being ran on the WIN7 clients when connecting via RDP to the Server 24/7.

But the sound just stops working on the RDP clients after a day or two.

If I minimize the RDP session and try the sound from the native windows session it works, but sound is not working within the RDP session.

and it takes a restart of the RDP session to restore sound, but then aftera day or two I get a call to say the sound is no longer working- a restart of the RDP sessions restores the sound.

I have checked the Environment sound settings in the RDP setup on the clients and have them set to play on the client, and I have checked that sound is not disabled in the Terminal Server end of things for RDP sessions.

I would really appreciate to help with this if anyone has suggestions.

Hello!

We have RDS 2012 deployment with 2 RD Gateways + GD Web Access, 2 RD Connections Brokers in HA and some RD Session Hosts and everything seem to working fine.

But on one RD GW server we have a very strange Audit Failure error in Security Log:

where ServerName - Name of problem GW server. So it is connect to itselfthrough network and get error during Logon.

There is no that errors on the other RDGW server, so it think it is very strange.

With Sysinternals TCPView I saw, that connection on that port make a System Process PID 0 with RDS remote name like rds.company.com both in local and remote address.

Any help about that problem?

Hi all,

We do have a RDS farm with 2 session host servers. I have created a collection.
The collection is working fine, however when I want to "shadow" a session I receive an error: The specified session is not connected.

However I am sure it is connected, because I am doing I tried it myself using a test account on a different computer.
Then I couldn't find much in the event viewer or whatsoever. Then I came to realize that all RDS sessions do have session id 0, I can see that from the server manager, as well as when I use the powershell command.

Anyone experienced this problem before?

Hi guys,

On a random base (daily, weekly) we're experiencing major log-in problems on our Windows Server 2012 R2 Remote Desktop Services farm. The VM's are hosted on Hyper-V 2008 hosts and we're not using Citrix techniques etc.

Users are reporting that they cannot log-in, the log-in sessions hangs with a blank screen when loading their user profile (e.g. Please Wait For The User Profile Service).

In the System event log of the server on which the user is logging on the following errors are shown:

Source:        Service Control Manager 
Date:          23-12-2014 7:28:01
Event ID:      7011 
Task Category: None 
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A 
Description: 

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the UmRdpService service.

…and after 30 (or sometimes 60) seconds, the same error only another service (in random order):

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the UmRdpService service.

…and after exactly 30 seconds, the same error only another service:

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the UxmSms service.

etcetera, with the following errors:

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the Netman service.

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the AudioEndPointBuilder service.

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the WPDBusEnum service.

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the NlaSvc service.

The Portable Device Enumerator Service service failed to start due to the following error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the TrkWks service.

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the UmRdpService service.

These errors are logged continuously.

An administrator cannot solve this since he isn't able to login in as well (console or remotely), only a hard reset of the VM is possible to use the affected server again.

I took different steps to solve this problem without any success, like:

- Installing the latest Windows updates
- Removed unnecessary printer drivers, print monitors and print processors (no local printers/drivers are installed, only Remote Desktop Easy Printer driver is used)
- Searched different forum posts, but found only hotfixes for Windows Server 2008 R2.

Can someone please help me with this annoying problem?

Many thanks!!

EDIT:
Of course is increasing the time-out not really an option here... http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/13765.event-id-7011-service-timeout.aspx

This is an issue which i have had going for almost a year now, and reported numerous times before. I have also had an Pro-support request going on this, but they gave up on me saying that there was nothing they could do.

The problem is with redirected printers on RDS servers running Server 2012/2012 R2, and we are experiencing the same problem on all our customers running this setup - which worked fine in 2003/2008.

If i take one of our largest customers as an example: They have over 70 network printers, where all are deployed by GPP as redirected printers from one, single, print-server. The various printers are deployed with item-level targeting on security groups, without any setting that defines any of them as default printer. This works fine.

The problem begins when the user is logs in on the RDS-farm that consists of 4 RDSH-servers. At random instances, the default printer is not showing as default printer, or the wrong printer is set as default:

1. Sometimes the default printer is set to the wrong printer - like a locally installed pdf-printer on the RDSH itself or some other software-generated printer.

2. At other times, the 'green tic' for default printer is missing from the printer set as default, but if you right click the printer to view the context menu, it is cleary 'tagged' as default. When this happens, users are unable to print from third-party applications like adobe reader. The only viable solution is do remove the printer from the affected user, and add it manually again.

3. There are also cases of duplicate printers, where the same printer is installed multiple times on the same user. This is usually showing as the same as if multiple printers are installed on the same port name, where you right-click one printer and then you are able to select the properties for multiple printers - but this time it is the same printer 4,5,6 times.

4. If you delete a printer manually when remoting a user session, they instantly get reconnected and deployed to the user again.

I won't even begin to list the things i have done to try to solve this - because the list is _long_. But the users are getting nuts, and so am i.

Remote desktop frequently disconnected in server 2008 R2 event logs I can see several errors

1.

Hello,

I have activated RemoteFX on one client PC with Windows 8.1 Enterprise as usually. But USB redirection does not work: the chosen RemoteFX USB device is not shown on the server during the session. When I activate RemoteFX on the other PCs with Windows 8.1 to the same server, it works.

When I click on the Devices icon inside the remote session the chosen device is not listed. If I choose then another device during this session, then the new chosen device disappears and the old one appears.

PC is 2 years old and I thought that maybe this is because of the old drivers, too much devices or some garbage in the registry.

I have reinstalled the drivers (USB devices, graphical card, chipset), cleaned the registry, installed Windows updates, played with deactivation of some devices. But nothing has helped.

Do you have any idea, what I can check also?

Best regards,

Michael

All,

I understand that this has been brought up a couple of times already, but I could do with some guidance on which direction I need to go in for a VDI virtualised machine (with RemoteFX) environment setup.  I have effectively configured a RDS lab with some managed pooled VM's to test the whole VDI-VM approach.  While I can connect fine by using Windows fat clients and remotefx works incredibly well, I do not get no where near as far with the HP T410 smart zero clients.  It seems from my research that a couple of people already are hitting this limitation with the RD Web site.  I manage to get to the RDWEB site and login with AD credentials using a the HP smart client, but when I click on the VM collection, it gives me a spurious error that it is unable to connect on port "" and then bombs out.  I have tried a direct rdp configuration using the HP profile editor, but that attempts a direct connection to the RDCB, which the user does not have access to.  What frustrates me a little is that HP sell this kit based on it working in VDI environments, yet it fails at the first hurdle when I attempt to connect to a pooled VM collection on Server 2012.  There doesn't seem to be a way to configure the free RDP 7.1 compatible program via HP profile manager either like you would with a .RDP file on windows.

Do I need to look at an alternative piece of thin client?  has anybody got this to work with a different piece of kit?  if so please let me know.

Thanks 

I have a RDS cluster i am trying to clean up and i am trying to remove one of the servers that seems to be failing to be a part of the HA. When i remove it via the server manager i get this message.

"The specified RD Connection Broker server SERVER02.LOCAL is not part of the highly available deployment RDS.PUBLIC.COM. Only RD Connection Broker servers from the highly available deployment can be removed."

How can i force the removal of the RD Connection Broker?

I am trying to add a new broker to the RDS HA which gives this message

Set-RDSessionCollectionConfiguration : Unable to set custom RDP properties for collection TERMSERV because one or more RD Connection Broker servers are unreachable or misconfigured. Remove these servers from
the deployment by using the Remove-RDServer cmdlet, and then try again.
Unreachable RD Connection Broker servers: server02.local

thoughts?

Tech with Alberta Education

Receiving this error on our Android devices after RDS App update to 8.1.12.17.  Any one else seeing this?

Tested on Mac, iOS, and PC against the same remote resource and it is working fine.

Hi,

This is a duplicate of a post in the Visual C++ forum as I didn't realise this forum existed when I made it.

I'm trying to implement the Remote Desktop Protocol Provider API by creating a in-proc COM server which contains a IWRdsProtocolManager class.  I have registered my class and can find its CLSID in the registry.  When I call CoCreateInstance from a test application, I can create the class and I can see the debug code in my constructor and Initialize method generating some output to a text file.  However if I create a new key or replace the LoadableProtocol_Object value of the RDP-Tcp key with my CLSID and then restart Remote Desktop Services, I don't see anything happening.  There are no logs in Event Viewer and no debug output to my file.  I have tried various methods to determine whether it is being loaded, but as far as I can tell my protocol provider is never created by Remote Desktop Services.

Has anyone had some positive experience of this API and could point me in the right direction?  I feel I must be missing something obvious for my DLL not to be loaded, even though I have carefully followed the instructions found here (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd919947%28v=vs.85%29.aspx). 

Thanks,

Duncan

Hi

i am looking for a server, where we can use several HyperV's and we want to put in the server a Nvidia Quadro 4000 to add some graphic performance.

so my question is whether it will work or not

thank u in advance

marco

--cacciu--

Hi

I want to migrate my two Windows 2003 Terminal Servers to Windows Server 2012 R2 Remote Desktop Services.

Users currently logon to two 2003 Terminal Servers using individual roaming profiles from Thin Clients via a LAN and WAN.

What is minimum number of servers I need to host Windows Server 2012 R2 Remote Desktop Services with 2-3 servers available for users to logon and access their applications via a desktop?

I'm hoping someone can help point to the documentation and functions I'm missing, because thus far trying to set up a VD pool in 2012 is a constant disaster.  Honestly, the system seems incredibly buggy and unfinished.

First of all, there are apparently a LOT of requirements that it does not make you aware of up front, nor have I found any mention of.  Any information on the real and complete technical, environmental, and infrastructure requirements to use this system would be great.

Issues at this point include:
When you set the distinguished name of the OU you want your VDs to be created in in the AD settings of your deployment or collection, it's simply erased after you click OK.  It's not saved, there is no error, it's just not there when you go back in.  This seems like a crippling bug, because you apparently can't have machines that are NOT bound to an AD.  Any advice how to get this setting to actually work, and/or create pools that are not bound to AD would be great.
If you try to create a collection and it fails for any reason, the collection is listed with Status of Not Valid.  Ok, and now what?  There seems no way to recover from this and re-try the setup, pick up where it left off, or in any other way repair the collection.  The only option appears to be delete the collection, then manually hunt down all the things it created and delete those, and then go through the wizard again.  Is there a "repair" or "continue" or some other option I'm missing?  Or some way to manually do this that isn't documented?
Where is the log to tell you what REALLY failed?  I'm doing a lot of Google guesswork trying to figure out what has gone wrong each time it fails and gives me a completely false error message.  For example, saying there is no virtual switch when the issue is actually the ethernet cable is unplugged.  Or saying it couldn't start a machine when it's totally started, and the issue might possibly be it wanted to do something with the VD that it couldn't because the VD had no IP?
Pursuant to that, and the above, it seems DHCP may be a requirement of VDI??  Please tell me that's not true as that isn't possible in our setting.  How does one use static IPs?  How can you complete a pool setup without DHCP if that's the issue rather than having it fail?

Again, any help getting pasts these deficiencies is greatly appreciated.  I'm a bit stunned it's this problematic and limited.