"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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Windows Server 2016 Start Menu Options Disabled on Admin Login
Installed Windows Server 2016 and set up Remote Desktop services.
After the RDS installation, the following occured:
Logging into the session host server as admin, no matter with which domain login, seems to be interpreted by Windows as a RDS…
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Remote desktop from azure
We want to implement a solution so our employees use only remote computer instead of physical one to store their information and work, so they can login to their work desktop even if they are in home.
Is there any guide so we can implement that…
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RDS deployment redirect not working correctly
I have a 2 server 2012R2 RDS deployment.
svr1: gateway,rd web,broker,host,licensing
svr2: host,licensing
If I select svr1 and set it to not accept new connections in server manager, then connect to svr1 I can't connect:
What I was expecting to…
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Remote App and Environmental Variables
So the basics, running a Windows 2012 R2, RDS (Terminal Server), with a published Remote App. Trying to connect with clients running the Win 10 anniversary update, all computers are properly joined to the domain, etc...
Everything works fine, except…
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Server 2012 R2 RDS does not display connections to one Host, will not redirect WAN users to the other
I've recently discovered an issue on our RDS environment where Server Manager on our RD Gateway server does not display active connections to the one of the Session Hosts in the collection. In that collection are 2 Session Hosts, A and B. All the…
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How to access to Win Server 2012 remote desktop via pure http/https?
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We have some Win Server 2012 machines hosted in Azure. We use the default RDP access to our machines. However in some client LANs RDP (out) is not enabled, and all http/https traffic controlled by a proxy. There is absolute no way to allow…
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Network printer becomes inaccessable randomly in 2012 R2 RDS sessions
I've recently moved about 40 users onto some new Windows 2012 R2 RDS infrastructure. They are all logging onto their RDS sessions from thin clients with no local resources attached (printers, drives). The network printer connections were rolled out…
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Remote Desktop active session time limit disabled but not respected
We have a customer with a Windows Server 2008r2 RDS farm consisting of 2 session hosts and a single connection broker. We have a GPO that configures session timeouts both as a computer policy and a user policy with loopback processing (merge) which…
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Windows 2012 R2 RDP - How to force a default desktop background for AD users on remote sessions only?
I want to setup either through a GPO or through some other method a default desktop background for my users when they sign in to our RDP environment. I do not want to force the background on them on their local machines. The reason I want to do this…
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Remote Desktop Services "Collections" tab is missing on Windows Server 2012
We just made the switch to new a server and changed from Windows 2008 R2 to 2012 R2 Datacenter. All the employees connect to this server using Remote Desktop Connection. Everything was going fine until I wanted to try and view someone else's…
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Active Directory, wildcard security certificate, and remote access
Is there any way to secure an entire Active Directory (AD) domain using a single trusted, third-party Certification Authority (CA)-signed wildcard security certificate so that remote access will be seamless for:
RDP using Remote Web Access (RWA)…
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Win2012r2 Services Recovery Tab documenation refuses to launch
Services Recovery Tab Help will not launch.
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On the "Recovery" tab in Windows Services.msc, clicking on
"Help me set up recovery actions"
results in
"An internal error occurred (INVALID_HANDLE)"
Original title was "Win2012r2 Services Recovery…
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How to assign remote users from GPO/users not authorized
My account and my admins can remote into any machine on the network, but standard users get an "user not authorized" error. The only solution I've found is to manually add the users to the Approved Remote Users on the local machine. How can I do…
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Remote Desktop Services role - Do I need it in order to use MSTSC (RDP/RDC) in my domain?
Greetings and thanks for reading (apologies for the length).
I'm a new Sys Admin and I have a (potentially silly) question for the more seasoned veterans. I'm migrating our primary Domain Controller from Server 2003 (SrvA) to Server 2008 R2 (SrvB)…
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Remote Desktop Session disconnects sporadically
Problem: RDP session disconnect and reconnect. Effects most user RDP sessions not all. Some remote users on our server sporadically gets disconnected. Their remote session freezes and they get a small window saying:
The session has been lost.…
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