"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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Users keep re-activating Office 365 with Remote Desktop Server Farm
We are running a farm of three Remote Desktop hosts with Office installed.
This being a farm, users get randomly assigned to an arbitrary member at different logins.
Clearly, the various farm members should not count against the 5 PC per user limit…
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Windows Remote Desktop licenses not being used
I'm part of a scientific lab and we have a Windows server we use for computation which we connect to using Remote Desktop. For a while, we didn't have any licenses purchased and it would let up to 2 people connect at the same time, but no more than…
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Slow Application with User Accounts from other Domain - Active Directory Domain Trust Issue?
I have a strange issue and hope someone can help me finding the cause.
Environment:
2 companies (let's say Company A and Company B) with seperate IT-infrastructures.
Each one has its own network, own active directory, etc.
Company A is hosting an…
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Printer Deployment via GPO - Login Time too long
our printers are configured as shared printers on a printserver.
They are deployed via GPO to different users/groups.
Currently the printer GPOs are set to "Remove this item whn it is no longer applied" to ensure, that old printers get removed…
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Certificates for Session Hosts on RDS Deployment
I have a RDS Deployment in Windows Server 2019 compose of 3 servers:
1 host with the Connection Broker, RDS Gateway, RD Webclient and License server
The other 2 servers are the session hosts.
I hace configured the SSL certificate for the Gateway,…
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Windows 10 machine unresponsive to remote login after presumed and confirmed reboots
Edit: May 5 2020 11:30 EDT (New York) time:
When I regained remote access, the software upgrade that I thought had caused the problem started (or restarted) and required a reboot. Luckily this happened while I was available, and I restarted…
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Accessing Remote Desktop through VPN on Windows Server 2012 r2
We have 2 networks at my current workplace - an administrative network everyone uses and a "lab" network which only engineers, scientists, and developers use. I have control over all servers and PCs on the lab network using Active Directory. Due…
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Application Error SDXHelper.exe module ntdll.dll
I'm wondering if anyone out there can help me with a re-occurring event that I'm getting on my Windows Server 2012 R2 RDS Servers. The servers are running Office 365 ProPlus Version 2003 (Build 12624.20466 Click-to-Run) Monthly Channel.
Faulting…
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Workgroup Server 2019 - RD Licensing - No licenses issued, 60 minute client timeout message
I have 2 machines with one (Server 2019 Standard) acting as a licensing server for my non-domain workgroup and the other a 2016 Standard machine. I configured the licensing server on the same day for both machines.
I installed the remote desktop…
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RD Gateway traffic and RD Connection Brokers
So we currently had to emergency deploy a RDS server. The setup is running on Windows 2019 Server and all is fine at this stage. I have one RD Session Host server and the RD Licensing Server and RD Web Access Server is on another separate server.
We…
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Remote Desktop Licensing firewall requirements
We have a very strictly segmented network within our Active Directory domain. Server1 in Segment1 has a Remote Desktop Licensing role installed, whereas Server2 in Segment2 will have Remote Desktop Session Host role installed.
There are no other…
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RDS Connection Broker High Availability cannot connect to database
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You want to configure Remote Desktop Services Connection Broker in High Availability mode, using (at least) Windows Server 2016.
You have completed and verified all prerequisites:
database is accessible over network (all firewalls and…
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Does the destination computer of a Remote Desktop Connection count as a Remote Desktop Session Host? (in terms of GPO configuration)
For example - If you open a Remote Desktop Connection to Dets-PC likes this:
"Normal" Remote Desktop Connection Note: Dest-PC is just a normal Out-of-the-box Windows Server with no additional Windows-Features installed
Is the Remote Desktop…
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How to install Remote Desktop Services on Azure VM without requiring an Azure domain?
It appears that in order to install Remote Desktop Services on an Azure Windows 2019 Server VM, the VM must be joined to a domain. And it appears the Domain product is over $100USD per month for the lowest tier.
Is there any way around this? I…
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TLS 1.2 only on Windows Server with RD Services breaks RDP
I've been experiencing an RDP issue whenever TLS 1.0 is disabled in my environment. I've seen many others report the same issues across the web.
In November 2018, Microsoft released a patch for Server 2012 R2 that fixed a silent bug wherein FIPS…
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