Questions tagged [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 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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Improving connection to amazon RDS from EC2

Connecting to a local database on the same EC2 instance has a low latency, but to RDS things get really high. See results below. time mysql -u root -proot -h localhost -e 'show databases' +--------------------+ | Database …
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downloading a big database (postgres) to a local copy

I have a pretty big postgres DB on Amazon RDS (about 9GB when zipped), and sometimes we need to copy it and do some tests on it on our local machines. Doing a DB dump (pg_dump) and downloading it is simply too slow and honestly been just getting…
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Can't access remote desktop services - server pool contains RD Connection Broker servers that are both clustered and not clustered

We've had a random error crop up that's preventing us from publishing remote apps. Every time we go to manage Remote Desktop Services in Server Manager, we're greeted with the above error. We only have a single Connection Broker set up, but we set…
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How do I actually use RDS CALs?

I'm new to CALs, first time actually trying to use them, and I'm having some difficulties. I purchased 3 licences from CDW and installed them through the RD Licensing manager, where they show up as: License version and type: Windows Server 2012 -…
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Amazon RDS instance and hostname resolution

I have a question about EC2 and RDS instances. I'd like to restrict connection to the database only from one particular EC2 instance using MySQL users. Security groups allow MySQL communication from EC2 instances to the RDS instances. The situation…
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User Profile Disks with RemoteApp 2012 R2 Locked

We have a RemoteApp deployment (Web, Gateway, High Available Connection Brokers, ...). We use profile disks stored on a file share. We publish most of our applications, but from time to time, a user needs a full fletched desktop. That's why we also…
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Windows 2012 RDS Temporary profile for Administrator

I've configured a Windows 2012 RDS Farm with two virtual servers (VMWare - each one on a different ESX server). Both servers have Licensing, Web Access, Gateway, Connection Broker and Session Host roles. High Availability is set up and it works…
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Remote Desktop Services install/ execute modes

According to the answer to this question, everything installed after enabling the Remote Desktop Services role should be done after changing to install mode. I can't find any detailed information on the install/ execute modes and I would like to…
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What is best practice for secure access to AWS, especially RDS?

After some reading (AWS docs, http://stratumsecurity.com/2012/12/03/practical-tactical-cloud-security-ec2/, etc..) I still don't understand how to organize secure & easy access to AWS (especially RDS) from users's laptops. For example, my…
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RDS 2012 Certificates - Subject Names do not match

I'm evaluating RDS on 2012, I want to use Remote App to allow home workers to access one application This is a single server setup at the moment Server Name acmeVDI.acme.co.uk - This has RD Web Access, RD Gateway, RD Licensing, RD Connection Broker…
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RDS active session timeout popup?

Does anyone know of a tool that will give you a pop up message that tells the users that they have are about to reach their active session time limit. We have a GPO in place that limits active session to 12 hours
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Windows Server 2012 Remotedesktop: connect to a specific session host

in my test enviroment I have four remotedesktop session hosts and one broker. Now I want to install software on each sesion host. When I connect with the local administrator, it's all fine, but I have to logon with the domain administrator. If I…
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Simultaneous Remote Desktop Connections in Windows Server

I would like to remote control the administrator user of my Windows Server 2008 R2 simultaneously from 3 remote computers. To do that, in Group Policy, I disabled "restrict to a single remote desktop session" and I put "limit number of connections"…
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Connecting RDS database from out side of VPC

My RDS database located in VPC. It's a Multi AZ database so that it's located on two VPC subnet. How could I connect it from outside of VPC?
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Any software/ hardware clients that support RDP 8.0 with RemoteFX?

As the title suggests are there any software and/ or hardware clients available now that support Microsoft RDP version 8.0 with RemoteFX? The only one I've read about is MS RDP client in Windows 8. UPDATE: I contacted Dell Wyse and at the moment the…
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