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RDS can stand for Remote Desktop Services (formerly known as Microsoft Terminal Services), or Amazon Relational Database Service. For Amazon RDS, please use the tag amazon-rds

RDS can stand for Remote Desktop Services (formerly known as Microsoft Terminal Services), or Amazon Relational Database Service. For Amazon RDS, please use the tag.

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What's the difference between installing RDS the 'normal' way and the special RDS deployment option?

When deploying RDS on Server 2012, there are two options: either installing it the 'normal' way by using the option 'Role-based or feature-based installation' or the 'special' way by using 'Remote Desktop Services installation'? When testing, I…
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Windows 2012 RDS Server asking for Licensing Mode when it's already set?

I have a confusing situation. I'm setting up a 2012 RDS Licensing Server for our environment. I'm checking under the RD Licensing Diagnoser to make sure everything is proper and I keep getting this error: "The licensing mode for Remote Desktop…
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Windows Server 2012 - Accessing RDS via web access from external address

I have a very strange issue. I'm setting up an RDS server in azure for a proof of concept. I've found that if I use the web access using the external URL provided by azure (xxxx.cloudapp.net/RDWeb), I can log in fine, even get the little popup in…
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Classic RDS from VPC EC2s

My old RDS instance is deployed in "Classic," not VPC. I have a new VPC with some EC2 instances in it, but I can't connect from these VPC EC2 instances to the RDS instance. Security Groups from VPC are not showing up in the RDS security group…
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How to improve AWS RDS Performance - Heavy read write updates

After searching and reading as many posts, comments and discussions I could find I did not find one specific to my issue. I have multiple AWS EC2 deployments with a single RDS all in the same Delivery zone us-west-2(c) I am testing the load of the…
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How to connect to an AWS RDS database (deployed in VPC) with an SQL client?

I am new to AWS and trying to set up and initialize an RDS instance. Since I have a newly created account, it does not support EC2-Classic, which (from what I understand) means that my RDS instance must be deployed into a private subnet in a VPC. …
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Better to share File Services role with Active Directory DC role OR with the RDS Terminal Server role?

We are a small business setting up a new server... budget is limited of course. I have ~500GB of data to share that needs to be stored locally on the single server we have. Host Server: Dell Poweredge T610, 24GB RAM, Xeon CPU, RAID6 4TB…
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AWS RDS MySQL Slowing down over time

I've read many posts about this topic but none of them talk about AWS RDS MySQL Database. Since three days ago, I'm running a python script in an AWS EC2 instance that write rows in my AWS RDS MySQL database. I have to write 35 millions rows, so I…
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RDS 2012R2: RD Connection Broker HA - cannot connect to SQL

I have a brand new RDS environment I am trying to set up. I'm trying to follow this guide: https://msfreaks.wordpress.com/2013/12/09/windows-2012-r2-remote-desktop-services-part-1/ and have gotten pretty far, but I'm failing at the Configure RD…
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RDS read-only replicas of different size than master

I have two m1.large RDS instances, a master and a read-replica. The master is able to keep up with the write load just fine, but occasionally read load on the replica comes to a point where the latency is a little too close for comfort. Is it…
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Windows Terminal Server printer selection dialog delayed in Microsoft Office

My terminal server users experience a delay when selecting printers from MS Office applications to be printed to network printers. Everything stalls on: Finding available printers... The environment is a 4-server Windows 2008 R2 RDS farm. The…
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MSTSC connection quality vs RDS via Connection Broker connection quality

We have a site in the USA which has a fixed VPN into our Datacentre in the UK via a 100Mb Leaseline. Our Datacentre Environment is a 2012 R2 Session Collection of RDS Servers, using Microsoft Connection Broker, RDC Gateway, and a Session Collection…
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Disable Browsing With 7-Zip

We have a lot of servers running Windows 2008 r2 (RDS/Citrix). We try our best to lock down remote desktop and published applications. Recently, one of my colleague showed me how he could use 7-zip to browse our network (with a simple user account).…
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Installing RDS on Windows Server 2012 without AD

I've just started working with Windows Server 2012 and I'm stuck trying to get Remote Desktop Services installed. My server is in a virtual machine and there is no Active Directory domain. I recall that with Windows Server 2008 R2 it was possible…
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AWS EC2 dns resolution diagnostic

I am using EC2 instances with amazon linux installed (with amazon dns server settings, which comes from DHCP), as well as an RDS database. The EC2 instances are behind ELB and get high traffic. The application that I use is coded with PHP. The…
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