"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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“RDS is currently busy” and I can not log in to the server
After 2 users have connected (except myself) to the server with RemoteDesktopServices, then I can not log in until the server restarts.
error message
It gives the error shown on the screenshot.
Everyone in the office can log in except me. But when…
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Windows RDP (mstsc /prompt VS enablecredsspsupport:i:0)
I would like to know if the /prompt option of mstsc.exe is equivalent to using "enablecredsspsupport:i:0" in a .rdp file.
mstsc.exe /prompt
versus template.rdp with the following line (at the end):
enablecredsspsupport:i:0
Does both options have…
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Azure AD Users logging into Remote Desktop Server
I have a Windows Server 2016 VM running on Azure. It is joined to an Azure Active Directory. Remote Desktop Services are installed and seem to be working properly.
I am trying to allow users from Azure AD to log into the server. The problem is that…
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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 is having issues logging in, with it hanging for…
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User cannot connect to 2012 R2 session deployment, session with no name created and stuck
We have this week, started having an issue on one or two of our remote desktop session host servers running 2012 R2, whereby when a user attempts to login, they are stuck on one of the login messages such as "processing group policy settings",…
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SCCM Remote Control Viewer permission time-out handling workaround
I use SCCM 2016 1702 and it's pretty good, but the situational handling when trying to Remote Control to a computer when someone is away is annoying.
I'd ideally like the connect permissions box to appear for 30 seconds, to give them the…
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Server 2012 R2 RDSH repeated high modified memory causing OS issues
We have multiple 2012 R2 remote desktop session hosts running on ESXi 6.5U1, and have noticed this week that most of these VMs have started experiencing an issue whereby;
Repeatedly through the day for durations of several minutes at a time, the…
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Is it possible to setup and effectively use Remote Desktop Services on a google Cloud VM Instance?
We currently have a Windows 2012 Server in our office running Remote Desktop Services. All of our users remote into the server when they need to run a windows application. We are thinking of simply firing up a windows server VM instance in Google…
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Event:4005 The Windows log-on process has unexpectedly terminated
We have 3 RDS 2012 R2 hosts setup in our network, they are all stand alone session hosts. In the last month or so the WinLogin process has been crashing and causing people to not be able to log in.
More often than not, it happens on a Friday…
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How to enable RemoteFX USB redirection between Win 10 and Server 2012 R2/Win 10 VDI
I have created a test VDI lab built on 2012 R2, and am trying to test two things;
vGPU on VDI VMs to improve performance of media content on the VM and reduce CPU load on the virtualisation host
Enable RemoteFX USB redirection
As far as vGPU goes,…
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watchguard port forwarding via SNAT
I have a problem with port forwarding on Watchguard.
What I want? I need to access from Internet via public IP on different port (lets say 9999) to a Remote Desktop on a PC which is on local network (win 10).
What I did?
I created a SNAT policy,…
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Windows 2012 Remote Desktop License error
I am exactly in this situation:
Windows 2012 remote access can't connect
The RDS role was installed erroneously, and the grace period to decide the licensing mode was left to expire; when I tried to connect, I was greeted with (the Italian localized…
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"Access is denied" message after logging in to windows 2012 r2 via remote desktop
I installed the Remote Desktop Session Host server role on a windows 2012 r2 machine. After that, I rebooted the VM and now when I try to log in via remote desktop, after a little while in the log in process, I get an "Access is denied" yellow…
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How can I exclude %TEMP% and %TMP% directories from user profile disk in Remote Desktop Services
We are trying to deploy extensions for Chrome using GPOs. Due to Chrome not supporting junction points, we cannot do this when using user profile disks as they have no drive letter when dereferencing a path within the disk.
We are trying to get…
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Office apps crash on Remote Desktop Server
I’m having a problem on a couple of Remote Desktop Servers.
When certain users (not all of them) open any Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint or Word (Office 2016), the application immediately crashes.
The Event-Log shows something like…
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