Hi,
Can you help me in inserting the RD License in Server 2012.
Asking for License Server.
Thank You
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Inserting RD License in virtual server 2012
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No license server was available
Hi,
i use RDC manager v2.7 for manageing my 3 servers. on one of them (WS2012) i receive the error in the title.
what can it be? till the last week it was working. i can normally operate on my server using physical PC
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Share RD sessions between two servers?
We have two RD servers, we had it setup so that when someone logs on to rds1 it will push the second login to rds2 then server 1 for the third person and so on.
I honestly can't remember how to perform this task, could someone enlighten me?
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Task Bar autohide fault
Hello,
I work for a company that provides terminal services using Windows Server 12 R2. We have an issue which I cannot replicate but users raise support calls over where by when they log in they find that the Task Bar disappears when they click away from the screen. This feature is the auto hide option. We have it set via GPO that users cannot personalise the desktop in this way. I have also tried to replicate it via keyboard function using either CTRL + ALT + I and Windows Button + I. I have found neither of these works. The only way to fix it is to either take the account out of the OU and log it on or fix it via registry key. One option I have is to put the registry key in as a GPO preference and let it set that way. However I would like to know what's causing this. I have not found much when I have googled it but cannot believe this has not happened to others in a similar setup. Please can you respond if you have come across this and if you have found the cause/fix. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Tim
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Using an alternative name for a gateway server.
Apologies for the below but the network design it provided by another party and I am trying to design an RDS farm around it.
If I have an RDS farm that will be accessed from another network and so the gateway address is NAT'd.
The network design will have a primary route using one NAT address pointing to the gateway IP. A secondary DR route will use a different NAT address pointing to the same GW IP. Both primary and secondary use the same DNS so there will need to be separate A record for each NAT address.
So:
"A" record GW.CONSOTO.COM will point to the primary NAT (e.g. 10.20.30.11) which points to the GW IP (10.11.12.1).
"A" record GW-DR.CONSOTO.COM will point to the secondary NAT (e.g. 10.30.30.11)which point to the same GWIP (10.11.12.1).
While the farm is accessed via the primary route using the correct name all will be good. If the primary site is lost then the users would need to use the GW-DR name to access the farm.
I know the certificates are an issue but SANs should work around that. Right?
However the GW name is used in the RDP file from the Web Access will be the primary name that will resolve to the primary NAT address external network. Is there any way to configure RDS to attempt a number of names for the GW? So if the first is unreachable the second name is attempted?
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To enable multiple RDP sessions for a single user in a terminal server
Hello Team,
In our environment, we have set a group policy setting from Domain Controller such that each users can have only a single RDP session to a terminal server.
But now we are having a requirement such as some users alone would need to have multiple RDP sessions for the same user account in the terminal server.
So could you please let me know if it's possible to implement the below in anyway.
1. To create a group policy setting, such that user's of a particular group can have multiple RDP sessions for his user ID in the server
2. All the remaining users should have a single RDP session access alone to the server.
Server OS: Windows server 2008 / 2008 R2
Thanks in advance and please let me know if you require any further information.
Regards
Sathish
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How to configure Remote desktop license server 2012 r2 with KMS
Hi All,
In my environment we want to configure 2012 server as a Remote desktop license server for other Server 2012 and if possible for 2016 OS too,
I want to know if i can use KMS server available in our environment to provide Licenses to activate a license server and what are prerequisites to configure a RDS license server.
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Windows 2012 R2 RDS - Certificate mismatch questions
Hi,
I hope someone can help me with this. Here's my setup :
- RDSH1 : Broker, Licence and Web Access server
- RDSH2 : Session Host server
- RDSH3 : Session Host server
- Internal domain : domain.intr
- External name : rds.something.ca
Our certificate is not a wildcard but it includes the "rds.something.ca" name. I tried using the "Set-RDPublishedName" script by entering the "rds.something.ca" name but i still had issues.
My question is about the DNS configuration needed to make this work. I already have a "rds.something.ca" DNS entry in a "something.ca" lookup zone that points to my Broker server. Do i need additional entries in this lookup zone for all the servers ? (ex. : "RDSH1.something.ca", "RDSH2.something.ca" and "RDSH3.something.ca").
And if so, do these need to be included in my certificate since it's not a wildcard ?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks !
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Windows Server 2012 R2 - RDP with User Profile Disks - Temporary profile on first login
System Architecture:
I have 5 Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard instances running a Remote Desktop Services Session Collection.
Server #1 is the Connection Broker, and hosts the share for central User Profile disks.
Servers #1 - #5 are load balanced under the Session Collection.
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Problem:
1. New user (has not logged in before) RDPs to Server #1. Load balancing redirects to another Server (say Server #5).
2. Login is way too instant. An inspection reveals that the user profile has been logged in with a temporary profile.
3. User logs out fully (as opposed to disconnecting).
4. User logs in again, gets load balanced again to Server #5, this time the loading takes longer, it appears the .VHDX user profiledisks is being created. On inspection, user is using actual profile, no longer using a temporary profile.
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This is readily reproducible by me. In one instance, it took logging off and then back on two times before the user profile disk was created.
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An inspection of the logs gives the same error every time:
Remote Desktop Services could not apply a user desktop for a user account with a SID of S-1-5-21-3954512987-845256609-1816244978-2710. A temporary profile was enforced for the user. Verify that the user profile disk settings are correct. The error code is 0x21.135
All online searches of this error all lead to the same hacky "fix" given by Microsoft of deleting a registry key of the profile. None even attempt at the source of the problem. Example article:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/734fae1e-9a47-415c-b53e-e1cdbdd8c38d/windows-2008-r2-you-have-been-logged-on-with-temp-profile
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These Windows Server 2012 R2 instances are all brand new and have not been subjected to odd changes over time - they are pretty much out of the box OS instances.
This is obviously pretty important to fix. Any ideas?
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Server 2016 RDS 2 problems
Hi,
I set up a brand new domain with all 2016 servers that will have a RDS setup. I have 2 servers that have the connection broker role, web services role and session host role. Broker is setup in HA. DNS entries exist for RDCB and web services. Certificates in place and working. These are the 2 problems I'm facing:
1) I published an application that has a ini file in the same folder. When I startup the application on the session host locally, the config file is read and the app works as expected. When I start the application via web services, the ini file is not read
and the application does not work correctly. When I create a batch file (and publish this) that starts the application and that contains a cd command to the folder where the application is located, then the app starts OK. However I then have the ugly command
window that also starts. So it seems that RDS does not take the startup folder or working folder into account. There is no way to specify this when you publish an application.
2) When a user starts an application via web services, then closes the application and logs off from the web page, the session remains inactive on the session host. This is normal. However, when the same user logs back into the web page and tries to start the application again, he gets a message that the remote host is not available. When I clear his session on the session host, he can log back in and use the application without problems. I have a workaround in place that clears inactive sessions within 5 minutes but this is not practical.
These 2 problems seem to be specific to server 2016 as I tried to reproduce this in a server 2012 R2 environment where these problems are not occurring.
any help would be appreciated
Guy
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VDI Shadowing of Windows 10 collection from Windows Server 2012 R2
Hi,
I have deployed VDI personalized collection of Windows 10 machines (Enterprise edition, x64, 1607 build) on Windows Server 2012 R2. But when I'm trying to use a shadow feature for a remote connection to one of the VDI VMs, I'm getting "Shadow Error: This computer name is invalid".
After a little of research, I found an article
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askperf/2013/10/22/windows-8-1-windows-server-2012-r2-rds-shadowing-is-back/
By using PowerShell command Get-RDUserSession | Format-List found from thereSessionID and ServerName, that I later injected in this command:
mstsc /shadow:SessionID /v:ServerName /control
After some testing, PowerShell doesn't recognizeGet-RDUserSession anymore, and gives an error:
Get-RDUserSession : The term 'Get-RDUserSession' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or
operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try
again.
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-RDUserSession
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Get-RDUserSession:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
Server reboot doesn't fix the issue. Can anybody help how to resolve shadowing feature from the server?
Thanks
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Windows 2012 R2 RemoteApp - Printer settings for IE not saved after disconnecting
Hi !
sorry for my English, i'm french speaking.
We have a RDS 2012 farm and we have a collection for our dev team. In this collection, we have 3 browsers, IE, Chrome and Firefox. This problem is for all browsers.
When a user start the remoteApp IE, for example and he need to print, the default paper size is set to A4 for example. The user change this to Legal for printing the document. If the user disconnect the session and he come back to the remoteApp IE, the paper size is again to A4 and not to Legal. The problem is there for the 2 others remoteApp. There is a way to set the paper size where it will not change for the next connection ?
Thanks !
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RDS compatiblity issue
We are performing Upgrade project for Offshore facilities. There Windows Server 2008 R2 Operating system is going to be used for this upgrade. We need to deploy Remote Desktop Services in order to remotely login to Virtual Servers hosted by V90-machines.
Vendor currently is offering RDS User CALs 2016, which are not compatible with our Licence Server (2008R2) according to Microsoft tech support:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-docs/compute/remote-desktop-services/rds-client-access-license#note-about-cal-versions
So one of the possible solution is to buy one Windows Server 2016 OS, and make it as License Server. However the rest of the system, including Domain Controllers, is going to be running on Windows Server 2008R2.
How feasible is this scenario? are there any important things to look at?
Second option is buy RDS User CALS 2012 instead of 2016 and downgrade them to 2008 R2 version.
Is there any risks accosiated with this RDS CALs downgrade?
Thanks, soonest response appreciated.
Vendor currently is offering RDS User CALs 2016, which are not compatible with our Licence Server (2008R2) according to Microsoft tech support:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-docs/compute/remote-desktop-services/rds-client-access-license#note-about-cal-versions
So one of the possible solution is to buy one Windows Server 2016 OS, and make it as License Server. However the rest of the system, including Domain Controllers, is going to be running on Windows Server 2008R2.
How feasible is this scenario? are there any important things to look at?
Second option is buy RDS User CALS 2012 instead of 2016 and downgrade them to 2008 R2 version.
Is there any risks accosiated with this RDS CALs downgrade?
Thanks, soonest response appreciated.
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Can't install Remote Desktop Services Role
It keeps saying a pending restart is required but I've rebooted many times. Keeps doing the same thing over and over. I checked the event logs but can't see anything related to this issue
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W2016 - RemoteFX setup for fluid video rendering and low cpu
Hi,
I noticed that w2016 RDSSH (virtual machine non-hyper-v) will uses twice as much cpu than w2008 r2 when rendering video. That's a big disappointement.
There is a RemoteFX GPO for W2008 R2 to set frame rate and video quality. I had set for a fluid video rendering (i.e. High frame rate and medium video quality). Watching videos is not at all the main purpose of my servers and the service is fair enough w/
w2008 r2.
Is there a similare setup for W2016 ? Or any other tweak to get fluid video and low cpu ? (Network bandwidth is not a problem. All clients are 100Mb/full)
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Is it possible to Revoke Per Device Cals from Terminal Services 2003?
Hi,
I have 20 Per Device Cals on Terminal Services 2003. I want to revoke two of them.But, there is no option in Teminal Server licesing Manager.Is
it possible to Revoke Per Device Cals from Terminal Services 2003?.
If Yes, please provide me the steps to do that.
If NO, please provide me microsoft article.
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Server 2012 refusing RDP admin connection (no licensing)
Hello, I am trying to remote into Windows Server 2012, which I did for months, but am now getting this error:
"The remote session was disconnected because there are no Remote Desktop License Servers available to provide a license"
How can I fix this and why do I need a license server? I just want to log in to do administration, which doesn't require a CAL per below.
Do I have to acquire RDS CALs if I am only remotely administering Windows Server operating systems by usingRemote Desktop for Administration?
No. Up to two users may connect to the Windows Server operating system simultaneously to perform administrative
functions without needing any RDS CALs. Additional administrative users need the appropriate RDS CALs.
I am stuck right now. Any pointers please?
Thanks for any help.
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Not able to connect to a RDS host from external.
Hello,
We have a Windows 2012 RDS environment.
Currently, when we connect to a host from outside of the company, we see the attached message. Connect from a LAN computer is fine. Please advise where we should look at.
Thanks.
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RDS 2012 R2 - Windows Search crashing/zombie sessions
Hello,
I have a 2012 R2 RDS farm consisting of three session host servers. I'm having a problem where the Windows Search service will crash at random and cause user sessions to not disconnect properly, leaving them in a zombie state with no username associated to the session owner. This also prevents those users from logging back on; they see a "Please wait for the Remote Desktop Services..." message. I have to kill the search service process in order for the zombie sessions to clear so the server can continue working normally. Windows Search was installed to allow users to search from Outlook 2013 in cached mode (we use O365). I've patched the servers up to the December 2016 update rollup, but I am still facing this issue. Is there any guidance on how to troubleshoot this issue or possibly fix it?
Thank you.
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Visual Basic application does not open images via Remoteapp
Hello all
We have the following scenario:
web < - > intranet <->RD farm (3 hosts) <->app server
When we are logged on the app and we try to open an image file from the app server, we got an error message saying the file can not be opened.
We have already turn the server upside down and have not discovered what is going wrong.
Suspects on DLL incompatibility.
Thank you
De Lucca
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