a device that terminates serial connections and provides a way for those terminals to connect to services across the network. Terminal servers can also connect modems to the network providing for PPP service aka dial-up Internet.
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Terminal Server Licenses
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Can you help me with my software licensing question?
Got a brand new DELL server with activated Windows 2008 OEM Standard Server. I noticed that i can have several remote desktops open at same time. Need i aquire additional…

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Flash website management on a Windows Terminal Server
situation: 100users, over a dozen sites, all connected by thinclients to Windows Terminal servers on various 1.5/256 or 2m/2m links.
I have currently blocked the loading of flash content on websites in IE7 by group policy, to preserve bandwidth -…
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Unable to change the Terminal Services Configuration as DOMAIN Admin from local console?
how to make the necessary changes in
tscc - [Terminal Services Configuration\Connections]
RDP-Tcp Properties | Client Settings tab
Disable the following:
[v] Clipboard mapping (selected and disabled so I can't make changes)
how can I uncheck that…

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Printer driver crashing terminal server
We've got a terminal server that locks up frequently (well, explorer hangs, not a complete freeze; we can 'fix' it by restarting the print spooler service) due to a bad printer driver.
The event log doesn't seem to contain any useful information. Is…
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What's the maximum number of concurrent sessions running on Terminal Server?
I need to know the answer from different aspects.
1) Where can I set the maximum number of concurrent sessions in the admin tools?
2) What's the most common hardware configuration for a Terminal Server that you have seen and how many concurrent…

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Closing a session on a Perle IOLAN
I am connecting to a serial port using a Perle IOLAN DS1.
I have noticed occasions when I have tried to log in and got an error message “line not available - press any key” which we think is due to a previous session left “dangling”.
Is there a way…

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HP CM2320 Printer crashes windows 2003 spooler in TS/Citrix
I'm having a very annoying issue with an HP printer (CM2320): all of a sudden, any user who has that printer installed locally as default printer would crash any Windows 2003 terminal services or Citrix server (XenApp PS 4.5) as soon as he connect,…

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Active Directory theme policies
I'm currently managing a terminal server in a domain. As the TS-service just got installed, previous users (I logged in with every user once to test it and set up a few things) use the default windows 2008 theme. New users automatically use the…

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Terminal server client's printers load slowly
A user's workstation has five printers installed. When she logs on to the terminal server (win2003 r2 sp2 x64), it takes five minutes for all the printers to become available in her terminal server session.
Her WinXP workstation uses RDP 5.2. Only…

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Install Certificate in RDP-TCP properties
I'm trying to get certificates to work on our Windows 2008 Terminal server. Currently when we log on using RDP 6.1 client we get an certificate warning saying that the rdp.geas.local certificate is not trusted.
I've got a certificate for our…

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What happens when an RDP session times out?
When a RDP sessions time out, what happens to the running processes? Are they gracefully shutdown, and if that fails then forcefully terminated?

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MS Office 2010 Licensing requirements in on Terminal Server
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Can you help me with my software licensing question?
I have a client that would like to upgrade MS Access on his TS to 2010. From the research I have done, it appears that he needs to actually buy a $160+ copy of MS Access for…

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How to install Win 2008 TS CAL on win server 2003
I just purchased 10 Windows Server 2008 CALs that I expected to install in my windows server 2003 machine. I received the emails from the vendor and Microsoft. I have an Authorization Number and License Number.
I go to Start > Programs >…

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how can I prevent system changes w/o Group Policy Object (GPO)?
I'm getting started with running a terminal server on a virtual private hosted site. The host operator disallows many security systems including access to the group policy editor (GPO). The problem I'm having with this is that my plan had been to…

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What's the most efficient way to set up an a remote desktop server with Linux?
I need my Windows users to have a remote desktop (via RDP or VNC, I suppose, or maybe there's something better) on a Linux server to run desktop applications (the most important of which is a Win32 one, I hope it is going to work with WINE)…

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