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"Terminal Services" is the name used in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and earlier, for what is in later versions known as "Remote Desktop Services". It allows its users to run applications on a remote server, sending only mouse/keyboard input and screen updates across the network.

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Windows user profiles behind symbolic links?

We have a Windows terminal server under heavy load. We'd like to move some or all of its user profiles from the C: RAID-1, to the E: RAID-10. Is it safe to do this using symbolic links, either one ...
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Restrict Terminal Server RDP session to paste from local clipboard to remote but not the other way around

At our company, we use RDP sessions to a JumpHost/Gateway to access customer servers and databases and disallow leaking data to employees computers. This is enforced via group policy to disallow ...
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2016 Terminal Server - RDS Host wrong, how to fix

Probably not a great title, but when I run Get-RDServer I get a name: xxxxx-TERMNEW.xxxx.com The name of the server is: xxxxx-TERMINAL.xxxx.com I was getting redirection errors, but then added a ...
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Connection remains active in RDP farm and profile disks don't load. Where to drop?

We have a server farm with a Domain Controller, Connection Broker, Gateway and several Terminal Servers. A user logs in to the RDP generated website and connects to the Gateway. Then starts the RDP ...
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How to find admin which logged off my RDP session

I recently discovered that since some days, someone often logs off my RDP session to our jump admin server when I have disconnected my session (which then terminates any long-running task I may have ...
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Microsoft Hyper-V: Terminal Server best practice?

We have an environment with maybe 150 users. The users have thin clients and connect to various terminal servers. We just replaced all of the old server 2008 terminal server vms with nice new server ...
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Automatically connect duplicate Windows RDP users to an existing, shared session?

When a new Remote Desktop client connects to an RD server with a username that's already connected, Remote Desktop Services normally does one of two things: Disconnect the previous remote, and ...
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RDS: Redirected printers not showing up in Control Panel or Settings app

I'm having an odd problem with our Remote Desktop Session Host that's running on Windows Server 2019 (version 1809, build 17763.805). I am connecting to this server from my PC (running Windows 10, ...
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RDP session is closed when loggin in locally

I want to use the session of the local administrator through RDP. Sometime when I connect trought RDP, all programs that were open in locally are closed and the session is completely new. I just ...
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How to check if given Windows session is shadowed?

Assume the following scenario: I log on terminal server with RDP. Another users connects to my session with "mstsc.exe /shadow:" command. I get the message to confirm this access, and I agree. Then, ...
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Terminal Server HKLM registry new key not visible for users

I need to add a new key on HKLM registry for all of my RD Host cluster. I tried to add manually the key with an administrator account and it's fine. But when I login with a normal user these key does ...
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Windows 7 multiple RDP session isn't working

It was working for long time and suddenly it stopped accepting multiple users. I'm not sure how to debug the issue. termsrv.dll version is 6.1.7601.24234 and it is as same as another VM which is 2008 ...
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Server 2012 R2 Essentials IIS DefaultTSGateway variable

So I want to use RDP externally so have a forwarded domain so /remote then downlaoding RDP file works. However, I get gateway errors (Your computer can't connect to the remote computer because the ...
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Windows 10 client does not get a temporary CAL form Win 2k3 TS

tl;dr; Windows 10 client is not getting issued a temporary CAL to connect to a Win2k3 TS. Details Win2k3 Terminal Server, Per Device CAL mode No available CAL's atm, I expect it to issue a temporary ...
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Oracle SQL Developer usage tracking over Windows Terminal Server (wts)

The Oracle SQL Developer contains a usage tracking module. When you start the application the first time, it asks you whether you want to sent statistics to oracle or not. In a Windows Terminal Server ...
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Windows Server 2016 Terminal Server GPO not setting Session Time Limits (as per QuickSessionCollection Properties)

I have a Windows Server 2016 terminal server with a GPO applied to limit idle sessions and disconnect times. RSOP shows [Computer Configuration/Policies/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/...
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2012 rds 2016 domain controller

So we have a few 2012 R2 Terminal Servers at my company that were working fine until we started the process of replacing our Domain Controllers with new Windows 2016 Servers. Since then our users are ...
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What happens during Remote Desktop logon, and is there any logging?

Background We have a few applications on Windows 2008 R2 servers, presented via RemoteApp, via links from TS-Web. These apps have been running this way for years (~8 years I think). One of our users ...
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RDP: Remote app does not encapsulate traffic when connecting via remote desktop gateway server

I have a remote desktop app that was published from a third-party corporation to one of my clients. The remote desktop app connects to a Remote Desktop Gateway Server (RDGW), which forwards the ...
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Terminal Server 2016 RemoteApp Create Windows Installer Package

I'm working on migrating our current terminal server (Windows Server 2008 R2) to a new server with Server 2016. I've installed all the roles on the new server and setup my apps. Works perfectly (...
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RDP Remote apps - can they share a single session?

I have a Windows server with couple of remote apps. When a user starts from his client a remote app, each of the apps is executed in a separate RDP session. I am mainly concerned about the login time. ...
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Enable RemoteFX USB redirection via Registry

I am trying to enable RemoteFX USB redirection on our thin clients which are not domain joined. Currently, if I use local group policy editor on one of the devices, and set the policy to enabled for ...
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How Can I Pass a Variable Parameter to A Windows RemoteApp?

I have published a remote app, MyApp.exe, from Server X. MyApp.exe can be launched with a variable optional parameter. That parameter can have a larger number of different values. I have downloaded ...
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Do GPO login scripts run in remote desktop / terminal services sessions?

I've created a login script that fires up a quick data collection task for our network inventory software. However, we have a couple 2008 servers that run Terminal Services, and a high number of users ...
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Windows Terminal Server Access Denied after enabling SMBv1/CIFS role

I've just took over the one network and there is a terminal server 2012. The users faced an issue that they can't connect to the older shared folder(or even map them as network drive), so I've asked ...
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Outlook performance issues in Terminal Server/Remote Desktop Services when using cloud hosted Exchange

I'm not sure if this specific question has been asked, but I can't seem to find any viable solutions that are supported by Microsoft. We have an office that currently has a few Windows Server 2003 ...
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Having an issue with Remote Desktop Services Gateway from external

We're having an odd issue with our Remote Desktop Services that we just can't seem to figure out. If we are testing from our internal network, we are able to hit the address and run the application ...
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Windows Server 2016 Remote Desktop Services Starting program

I've setup a Windows Server 2016 RDP server and everything works except for the in AD specified Starting program that won't launch. The program specified exists on the server and it works perfectly ...
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Remote desktop 'internal error' attepting connect after 'NSA' patches installed

I just installed the latest Windows update (NSA vulnerability patch tuesday) and now I cannot connect to remote desktop. The server is remotely hosted. I don't have physical access. Server 2012 R1. ...
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Remote Desktop Services (2008) allows everyone in

My RDS 2008 Terminal Server (domain-joined) allows anyone to login remotely. I am trying to restrict that down to one Security Group: DOMAIN\TerminalServerUsers. I've been testing with a new user who ...
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Unix equivalent of windows terminal server options?

I want to replace Windows terminal server mostly due to cost reasons license cost for 2100 users goes out of roof. The end-user is all windows but I want a jump server that is UNIX based , I have ...
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migrate local profiles to UPD

We have a farm of RDSH servers, that are currently using local profiles. I would like to migrate them to UPD, ( User profile disks). Not too sure on how to copy data from local profile of some 40 ...
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Group Policy Deployed Printers Not Creating

We currently run a Citrix XenApp environment with roaming profiles for our users and a Windows Print Server to provide deployed network printers to all users depending on which location (OU) they are ...
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How to lock down local server account while permitting Remote Desktop in Windows 2008 SP2 and run scheduled task?

I have a user who needs to run one scheduled task on a Windows 2008 SP2 server. The user does not have domain access. So, I'm creating a local server account. This user needs to be able to RDP into ...
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can server 2012 R2 be used in server 2008 R2 terminal server farm

I have currently have 3 server 2008 R2 servers forming a server farm with a separate server 2008 R2 session broker. I am familiar with adding servers to the farm using active directory and joining ...
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Terminal Server 2008 Closing All Applications Immediately Upon Opening

I've got a terminal server that one user is having problems with. Everyone else seems to work just fine. When this user tries to open any application, it closes immediately. This is ALL applications. ...
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Installing software for server only on terminal server [closed]

I'm in the process of developing software for a Windows based RDP terminal server consisting of a server.exe for the server and a client.exe for all terminal server users. I've created an MSI for ...
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Automatic start of a WebSphere Windows service

I have tried all the solutions I have found in Google and StackOverflow to auto start a Windows service. Here's my problem: I have registered my WebSphere application server instance as a service. I'm ...
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Intermittent Excel issue of "file locked for editing" not showing when it should

Current setup: 3 app servers (2008 r2, terminal services XenApp 6.5), 2 file servers (2008 r2). Situation: user1 opens up an excel file that is on server1 and starts to work. user2 goes to open ...
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Automatically Setting Printer ACLs for Multiple Printers on Multiple Terminal Servers

Does anyone have an example of how to script (preferably as a batch file) to set ACLs on multiple printers installed on multiple servers? I searched Google and found some examples of settings ACLs on ...
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Remote Desktop: What is the difference between "Run these programs at logon" and "Start the following program on connection"?

My organization is running a Terminal Server Farm in order to provide a specific application to the users. The setup consists of a AD domain controller plus two Terminal Servers running the Remote ...
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Remote Desktop black screen

Today, when I went to remote to my VPS (with Windows 2012 r2), remote desktop shows me black screen and closed after some seconds. I've tested remote from other client (with different OS) but again ...
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What is the latency threshold for running a Terminal Server (RDS) over the WAN?

I've seen: Terminal server performance over high latency links But I have a customer who is interested in relocating their system infrastructure to a datacenter that has ~62ms latency from their main ...
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External FQDN for RDS server? or sub-domain?

I am trying to setup a terminal server and need to have an external FQDN name. So far we have a main domain name hosted by 3rd party. lets call it "aaa.com" We also have subdomain name called "mail....
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Outlook timeout on an RDS Session

We are using a remote hosted Terminal Services Server with individual RDS Sessions for our Users. Emails work fine during use, but if they leave their system for about an hour and go back to Outlook ...
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Windows Server 2012 Terminal Server Degrading Performance on User Session

We have a terminal server environment with about 40 users which is experiencing a curious performance issue: when a given user logs in initially, everything functions properly, once a particular user ...
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Change IP of RDP server for thin clients on Windows domain

I have some HP thin clients in user-mode at a remote site set to use the wrong RDP server, how or what do I change in order to get them to use the new IP? I am remote with no smart hands onsite but ...
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Windows Server 2012 Terminal Services

I have a AD Server (DC) and a Member Server set up on one computer as a test lab. I have an administrator account and an account called KDM. I have KDM as member of Remote Desktop Users and each ...
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how to allow remote desktop on one computer and deny on another for the same domain user

This is my scenario. I have two servers. First one is the domain controller. 2nd one is the backup domain controller. Both are windows 2008 R2. I want to setup user permissions so that say userX in my ...
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Need to setup depend services of tomcat and mysql

Trying to set service depend on each other, the command which I am using for it is as below. dependencies are not setting up. seems like there is somw thing wrong with my command : sc config tomcat6 ...
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