"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How to secure a Remote Application server farm to prohibit users from running unpublished applications?
We have recently deployed and tested a working RemoteApps configuration based on MS Windows Server 2012R2's Remote Desktop Session Host and Remote Desktop Gateway services, that is intended to allow certain users to run certain applications on the…
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View disk activity (IO/s, MB/s) of a Windows server remotely
Our company does a lot of very network- and disk-intensive processing. We would benefit greatly from being able to glance at which of the five drives on the server are currently being "hit" or have a lot of read and write activity. All the…
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RDS 2012 R2 some users are not able to logon after changed date and time on Connection Brokers
Due to a malconfigured NTP server of ntp.org, the date and time on all our servers and client was set to the date of tomorrow (1/1/2017 instead of 31/12/2016). We've manually changed the date back to the date of today on our Primary Domain…
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Change RDS Remote computer path in .RDP file
I have a similar problem as listed here: RDS 2012 R2 and Remote Desktop Collection: Change "Remote Computer" value
I cannot figure out how to use the command listed.
Set-RDSessionCollectionConfiguration –CollectionName …
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Is it possible to make a Windows Server 2016 VDI template?
I was looking for this but could not find any answer (nor a question like that to be honest :).
Anyway the questions is, is it possible to create a VDI collection from a template with Windows Server 2016 OS installed? I did try it both in the…
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Restrict a RDP connection to a user group
Im trying to produce the following setup.
I want to have a machine running Remote Desktop Session Host accepting connections from users. The machine will have two NICs, one for admin-net and one for user-net.
As i understand, it is possible to set…
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Unable to deploy RD Gateway
I was just trying to deploy my RD Gateway but it failed. The deployment shows succeeded, but the RD Gateway icon doesn't grey out. That means i can still redeploying it again and again.
So i went to Event viewer to check if there's any error logs…
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Configuring TightVNC as Portable RDC over internet without Static IP and without touching router config
I am trying to customize TightVNC where i can do the below
Use it Portable so that i can host server from any computer
Use without Global Static IP ie with basic internet connection
Use it without disturbing the router
I have the below for…
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How do I connect to an RDS sessionhost farm without DNSRR
I have an RDS deployment on Windows server 2012 R2.
There is 1 connection broker, which also has the RDWeb roles installed.
There are 2 session host servers; Lets call them shost1 and shost2.
I have set up the loadbalancing rules within the…
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Error adding RDS license to a server
I have an RDS license for 100 users.
I successfully assigned it to one RDS server without issue, but when I tried it on another server I get an error.
Open RD Licensing Manager
Right click the server and choose activate- this works fine
Right click…
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Windows OSes / apps that allow multiple users to Remote Desktop into a single system at once?
For licensing purposes, I'm interested in knowing what Microsoft Windows OSes and applications allow multiple users to Remote Desktop into a server at the same time (each with a unique instance -- able to use the same applications and data…
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Windows Server - Visual Studio Dev Machine for Contractors
I am setting up a windows server machine with visual studio and multiple users.
All users will be working on the same project on different user accounts.
1) Will it be possible to have all users running in isolation and running a project on the same…
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Apache Reverse Proxy in front of RD Web Access IIS
I have just configured a Microsoft Remote Desktop Services service on an internal Windows Server 2012 R2 server. I have access to RDP through outside the network with port forwarding. However, because I have additional web servers running on port…
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Printer Permission in RDS envirement
I have a problem in the print management in a multi-site environment, where all users use remote desktop sessions on a HQ server (Win2012R2).
All printers are network printers, installed with TCP/IP protocol on a print server (Win2012R2), in HQ,…
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How do I move RDP Profile Disks to a new location or different collection?
I have a RDS deployment (2 server 2012 R2 boxes) with a Session Collection setup that users have been using. There are lots of Profile Disks.
I need to create a new Session Collection and move those profile disks to another location, how can I do…
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