Questions tagged [remote-desktop-services]
"Remote Desktop Services" is a component of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and newer. It allows its users to run applications on a remote server, sending only mouse/keyboard input and screen updates across the network. In previous versions of Windows Server it was known as "Terminal Services".
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How do I change default user settings in RDS Session Host?
Using Windows Server 2022...
When a user connects the first time to my RDS Session Host, they get this layout...
How can I by default remove "server programs", prevent all users (but admins)...
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How to reduce a RDS user's vhdx?
In order to reduce RDS user's vhdx (User Profile Disks) size, I wanted to test disk2vhd to rebuild a vhdx from mounted vhdx. But it doesn't work on virtual drive.
Optimize-VHD is not suitable for this ...
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Temporary profile on remote desktop server
We have 6 RD Servers (2012 and 2008) and on all of them users sometimes get assigned a temporary profile.
In Eventlog we can always see Event ID 1600
Das Profil kann nicht von <domain>\files\...
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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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How to stop RD-Gateway from redirecting to HTTP
I have a single server setup for my Remote Application Services. So one server is RD-Gateway, Connection Broker, and Host all at once.
I'm trying to use a Cloudflare Tunnel as a proxy with the ...
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Windows stuck on "Welcome" screen specifically after disconnect + reconnecting to RemoteApp
I have been intermittently working on an issue for weeks now and I can't seem to find the solution.
We have a legacy MS Access desktop application on an Azure VM that we stream to the users as a MS ...
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Local administrator temporary profile after add server to RDS session host group
Two weeks ago we have to install a new server (Windows S. 2012R2) as terminal server. There was ServerA ; ServerB; and now ServerC
We tried to clone the ServerB to ServerC but because of issue with ...
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RDP not respecting client's desktop scale factor
We upgraded our laptops and their resolution went from the old laptops' 1366 x 768 to 1920 x 1080 and this is causing our one Remote Desktop server to scale everything small so it's hard to see. I ...
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Remote Desktop Connection cannot connect
I have used remote desktop load balancing for about three years with little issue until yesterday, when my some, but not all, of my users started reporting an error similar to the following.
The ...
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Multiple RDS farm session hosts for load balancing?
I am setting up an RDS farm, intending to host terminal access software for access to a mainframe.
We'd like to set up multiple RDS servers for redundancy and load balancing. To accomplish this, is it ...
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Move RDS Roles to Another Server
I'm in the process of planning for the moving of our RDS Licensing Server to a new server. I'm currently on Windows Server 2012 and moving to 2012R2. The information I've found on how to do this is ...
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Automating Remote Desktop services configuration
Has anyone successfully automated Remote Desktop Services configurations? We have a powershell script which sets up our Remote Apps. The problem is that we have yet to figure out how to automate them, ...
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Licensed RDS deployment does not allow more than 2 concurrent connections
I am creating an RDS deployment in a corporate domain. Servers are running Win2019 Standard Server Core in a Session-based desktop deployment. Server A is acting as RD Broker, RD Web Access, RD ...
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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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Remote desktop connection over VPN
I have a Server machine that has both VPN and RDP Enables(Windows Server 2022).
The vpn base is L2TP and users have no problem connecting to the server with it.
Also the RDP port is open so users can ...
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Windows Server 2019 remote users stuck in a black screen
So we have 2 virtually identical servers that are hosted somewhere else . Ever since we moved to these new servers in January we noticed periods when one of these servers would become stuck on a black ...
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Remote Desktop stuck at Loading Virtual Machine
We have a Terminal Services environment with following configuration
Server A - RD Gateway + Connection Broker
Server 1 to 20 - RD Session Host
We have 7 collections and session hosts servers are ...
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RD Gateway and Web Application Proxy and AD FS
I am trying to deploy an RD Gateway in combination with WAP (Web Application Proxy) and AD FS pre-authentication as described here.
For a "proof of concept", I've decided to deploy all RDS ...
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Migrating a Terminal Server - Multiple Names
I tried migrating our Terminal Server, which is now successful. The terminal server is joined to a trusted domain and normally, we could access the terminal server from our own domain.
I created an A ...
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No sound from microphone over Remote Desktop (Windows Server 2019)
I'm trying to allow users to properly use video/voice chat software (like Teams) on our Remote Desktop server. Sound playback works fine, but I've been unable to get sound input (microphone input) ...
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Automating full Remote Desktop Session Deployment using powershell
I am attempting to automate a full Remote Desktop Session deployment but running into a problem adding the gateway via powershell. I can add each server with the exception of the gateway. Which ...
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Single User Can't Access RDP by DNS, only by IP
I have three domain controllers, dc01.ad.exmaple.com (10.83.78.10), dc02.ad.example.com (10.23.20.15) and dc03.ad.example.com (10.24.20.15). They are all in the standard Domain Controllers OU.
dc01 is ...
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Smart card reader not able to detect in remote host
I have a situation where Host A (USB smart card reader connected) trying to RDP'ed to Host B, however, Host B was not able to detect the smart card reader on Host A in the remote session.
Thing I have ...
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Duplicate Desktop Icons for single user over Remote Desktop Session
We have an RDS environment for our customers where they RDP into their server and their AppData is stored in a remote profile disk (VHDX), their user home is a redirected folder also stored in a ...
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User profile disks getting slower and slower causing crashes
since this morning I'm encountering wacky problems on my terminal server. I use user profile disks and they are getting slower and slower the longer the user session is. After 30 minutes it is so slow ...
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When do changes to the group policy take affect for remote desktop idle times?
I was setting up idle time settings for remote desktop services since I have users that are leaving themselves logged in at night with programs open.
This is a Windows 2019 Standard server with remote ...
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Redirect or alter specific registry key under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE based on the logged in user
We would like to run an application under Terminal Server that's typically designed to run on a single client machine connected via network to a local server. This will mean multiple users logged on ...
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Remote Desktop 2019: new MSRDC Webfeed URL -> no workspace found // Browser or old MSTSC -> Workspace found?
I have kind of a strange issue related to Microsoft Remote Desktop Services running on Server 2019.
**My Setup:** 4 Session Host, 1 Server for RD Gateway, RD Licensing, RD WebAccess, RD Broker
When ...
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GoogleVM - Remote Desktop Connection Error
Can't connect to Google Server using Remote Desktop Connection in Windows 10.
The error is "An internal error has occurred".
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Quickbooks Causing RDP disconnects
I run about 20 Windows 2016/2019 RDP Servers out of a central datacenter. I have a group of 4 QuickBooks (21 Enterprise) users on a fully patched 2019 server that are experiencing frequent RDP ...
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In place RDS upgrade
I'm looking for a solution to upgrade RDS farm with 2 brokers servers from windows 2016 to 2019.
I read the online documentation by Microsoft for upgrading RDS and I get an error when I do the upgrade ...
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Azure Virtual Desktop - can't login
I need to set up Azure Virtual Desktop and everything is deployed but there is no possibility to log in. Created the host pool, Desktop Application Group and a workspace, then added users to the DAG ...
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Server 2012R2 Remote Desktop all non-admin users are logged off immediately without getting to desktop
I have Windows Server 2012R2 virtual servers connected to an Active Directory domain. The servers accept both domain user/pass and domain Smart Card logins. All administrative accounts/users can log ...
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RDS RemoteApp File Type Association UI is Blank
I am setting up an RDS deployment that shares RemoteApps to replace one shared session host that offered all apps.
There is a single rds gateway and then a couple of session hosts that offer different ...
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Log into local Windows 2019 Remote Desktop Server with Azure AD account?
Is there a way to use Azure AD accounts to log into a Windows 2019 Remote Desktop Server? (not hosted in an Azure cloud VM)
The idea is to have the user's primary account be the Azure AD account. This ...
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How easily and quickly access workstations that are two or three servers away from mine
I work for a small IT firm whose main client has dozens of Windows Servers (2012 R2) catering to thousands of workstations in several dozen cities.
We routinely and remotely assist end-users, and to ...
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How to see the user’s RD session?
How can I as an administrator perform “shadowing” of a user in a Remote Desktop Services environment?
My scenario is the following:
The user will log on to the RDS system and get a remote desktop ...
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How to disable warnings about low disk space
I have a bunch of Session Hosts in a Remote Desktop Services environment.
How can I disable warnings about low disk space?
When the user logs on they see I warning about low disk space for a local ...
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Find user’s session in RDS
Let’s say I have a Remote Desktop Services environment with two connection brokers and four Remote Desktop Session Hosts.
I want to know which of the four session hosts that user jdoe is logged on to.
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Network Policy Server rule does not match users from trusted domain when in a nested group
TL;DR: Just look at the image linked below.
User group membership diagram
We have an RD Gateway and Network Policy Server, both running on Windows Server 2012 R2 in an environment with forest ...
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Changes to the value for Remote Desktop Services User Profile path do not take
TLDR; I can't figure out where the value for %appdata% is set for RDS servers. This appears to be different from the "Remote Desktop Services User Profile" directory in ADUC, as I can ...
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RDP screen goes black after successful remote login
We have a Windows 2012 R2 Server that was working perfectly, about month ago, when the administrator tries to connect remotely to the server he gets the login prompt, he enters his credentials but ...
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Best option under Azure to provide remote desktop access to an application?
I developed a desktop app and now I would need that users can use it from a RDP connection.
I have Windows 2012 in a Azure Virtual Machine. I understand that I need a CAL license for each user.
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Should Remote Desktop use a dedicated certificate template?
Practically all instructions on enabling certificates for Remote Desktop server authentication (and configuring auto-enrollment through Group Policy) say that you should create a new certificate ...
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Allow multiple users to interact with a single running instance of an executable
We have a Windows 10 machine running an inhouse update schedule (updateSchedule.exe) which runs multiple update processes which gather data and load to a database. Scheduled processes (update1.exe, ...
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Users keep re-activating Office 365 with Remote Desktop Server Farm
We are running a farm of three Remote Desktop hosts with Office installed.
This being a farm, users get randomly assigned to an arbitrary member at different logins.
Clearly, the various farm members ...
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Windows Server 2019 RD Deployment Quick Start wont work
I am attempting to install Remote Desktop Services on a Windows Server 2019 server using the Add Roles and Features Wizard. During installation, it fails with the following error message:
The post ...
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How do I restrict a Remote Desktop Client to a single application?
I have an AWS Lightsail server running Windows Server 2016. I want Administrators to be able to log in via Windows Remote Desktop Client and access the desktop and all applications. However, I want to ...
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Windows Remote Desktop licenses not being used
I'm part of a scientific lab and we have a Windows server we use for computation which we connect to using Remote Desktop. For a while, we didn't have any licenses purchased and it would let up to 2 ...
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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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