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.
Questions tagged [terminal-server]
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Can I use MSTSC to connect to a Terminal Services RemoteApp?
I have installed Windows 2008 Terminal Services and I want to use the new RemoteApp feature, I have setup a remoteapp but I don't want to use the WebAccess to get to it and I don't want to create an .RDP file. The reason for this is my SSL VPN can…
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TS 2008 - Remote session - Black screen on logon
2 out of 8 sites have reported not been able to connect to the network this morning, everybody excluding head office use terminal services, i have 2 2008 servers in a pool/farm. My network Cisco and my Cisco partner has already confirmed the network…

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Terminal Services Login Error - "This initial program cannot be started"
We have set up a Windows Server 2008 R2 Server with Terminal Services. I am able to successfully log into the server using Remote Desktop Connection. However, many of my users, both admins and non-admins, are receiving an error message when logging…

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Windows 2003 Terminal Services Manager: Cannot connect to user sessions
While logged in to a windows 2003 terminal server with admin rights, and running the Terminal Services Manager, I want to right click the active sessions and 'Connect'. I'm prompted for the password of the user but this is always rejected.
After…

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Migrating print drivers between terminal servers
I have two windows 2008 terminal servers. One is existing and has all the necessary print drivers installed. How do I migrate the drivers from one to the other without having to install these manually.
I don't need to migrate the printers, just the…

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Deleting Server 2008 R2 profiles: NTUSER.DAT
Having an issue with deleting user profiles on server 2008 when they become corrupt, we have successfully done this now by closing a process but it killed the server and forced a restart, not to bad as we are testing this server and only had 2 users…

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Terminal Server 2008 Login: Access Denied on RDP Attempt
When I try to RDP into a Server 2008 Terminal Server, I get a message that says "Access Denied" and an OK button. I setup the licensing mode correctly (per user) and also have setup to allow all remote connections. I get the following in the…

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Apply Local Policy to Terminal Server (Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard - Workgroup )
I have created 5 local user in Window server 2008 R2 std in workgroup. This server is also Terminal Server.
Is it possible to apply local user Policy (gpedit.msc) per user wise?
I want to accomplish the following tasks:
Restrict some control panel…

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Users See All XenApp Autocreated Session Printers
Small farm running Windows Server 2008 x64 and XenApp 5 with the latest hotfix rollup. The users are standard users, but for whatever reason they see all of the auto-created session printers. Initially, everyone was a local admin, but this was taken…

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Different User roles on Terminal Server
I have a Terminal Server, that'll be used by many people, but for different purposes. Our program consists of 2 parts, let's call them user-part and manager-part. That are 2 different .exe-files. I want the program to be run automatically when the…

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When Citrix desktop disconnects SAP Client holds session and can't log back in
We have a fairly large Citrix implementation and have just pushed out SAP desktop client to all of the desktops. Everything else is working fine except the following problem:
If a user Disconnects their session and the session is running the SAP…

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Windows Server 2003 R2 Terminal Server : Internet Explorer Enhanced Security won't disable for Users
The Internet Explorer Enhanced Security (IEES) won't disable using the normal method of disabling it from the Add/Remove Programs/Windows components. This came to light immediately after testing.
IEES was disabled after Terminal Services were…

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Terminal Server rename to Remote Desktop services
It seems Terminal Server is being renamed to Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2. (See this http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560658(WS.10).aspx )
I am concerned, and I was wondering if anyone with me is as well, that…

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Linux equivalent to RDP and TS Gateway
Windows, TS and TS Gateway: A wonderful combination for remote working.
How can you deliver a similar user experience with Linux as the server side platform? Ideally the clients would be Windows, but could be anything.

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Remote Desktop Host: IE won't close out in sessions
I recently setup a new 2008 Remote Desktop Host in a vSphere 4.0 VM. When a user connects to the host the sessions seem to work well except for IE. When someone tries to X out of, or rt-click/close on the task bar, the IE instance will just stay…

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