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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Server 2008 R2 How to Change Windows 7 Basic Theme Color
We're deploying thin clients connecting to a terminal server farm. The computers have high visibility to the public and I would like them to at least look presentable and not like something out of 1995. So I installed the Desktop Experience feature…
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Old HP thin clients cannot connect to Windows 2008 R2 RDS server
I'm in the middle of a migration from an old virtualized Windows 2003 Terminal Server to a 2008 R2 RDS host. The environment is a mix of several generations of HP thin clients, as well as some Axel hardware terminals.
The first batch of users…
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terminal server has exceeded max number of allowed connections
when I try to connect to a remote windows 2003 server via remote desktop connection I get the following exception:
"Terminal server has exceeded max number of allowed connections"
Ho can I find out who is connected to the server?
Is there a snapin…
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Windows 2003 Terminal Server not responding after reboots
We have 5 Windows 2003 R2 SP2 Std x64 terminal servers that are set to reboot each night all within 45 mins of each other. Frequently at least one of them will not respond to RDP requests after reboot. If I connect to console I can login just…
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Terminal server logs off users after 5 minutes
We have the following domain setup:
Domain Function level: Server 2008
5 Server 2003 terminal servers
5 Server 2008 R1 terminal servers
150 staff who use mandatory profiles on their PCs
Those staff do not have a terminal server profile path in AD…
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MSTSC crash on connect
We are supporting a client with primarily Windows XP machines. The users need to use Remote Desktop to connect to a terminal server. Unfortunately, after upgrading to SP3 on some machines MSTSC.exe crashes when they try to connect to the terminal…
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Windows 2008 Terminal Services "Easy Print" and Matrix Printers
Server: Windows 2008 Server Standard SP2 with "Terminal Services" role
Clients: Windows XP SP3 + .NET 3.5 Framework SP1 + Remote Desktop Client 7.0
We are using "Easy Print" feature which allows programs running on server to "see" printers…
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Perform action when no user logged on to Windows Terminal Server
As background for this question: we have a Windows Server 2012 R2 Terminal Server where users do long-running work, so we try very hard not to reboot the server unneccessarily. However, sometimes we need to (installing updates being the most…
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Users are seeing Windows Update notification on Terminal Servers. How to stop it?
We have a 6-server TS farm running Server 2008 R2 and using a WSUS server to do updates. Group Policy for the farm has updates configured to automatically download and install as soon as they're approved, but automatic reboots are disabled. The…
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Magnetic Stripe Reader over Terminal Server has random Uppercase/Lowercase nonsense
The Magnetic Stripe Reader that I'm using and testing is just supposed to be sending keystrokes. Unfortunately, it seems to randomly be sending upper case and lower case keystrokes, sometimes substituting % for 5 and ^ for 6 and vice versa. (If…
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How do I set up timeout for remote desktop users?
In my job I usually have to connect to several different servers with remote desktop. However, more often than not I will get the message "Terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections", because my colleagues just closes…
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Terminal Server Licensing (per device) in a dual boot environment: 1 or 2 licenses per PC?
in our company I have a few computers that are already Windows 7 clients to a Windows Server 2008 R2 but are now supposed to receive an additional Linux installation as a dual-boot option. The licensing mode on the terminal server is set to "per…
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How to configure Chrome on a Terminal Server
I have installed Google Chrome on a Windows 2003 Terminal Server and I now want to configure it for the users. How do I do that? For example clear cookies when browser close, set favorites and the home page, restrict access to the setting options,…
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PXE bootable image for terminal server?
We have 300 windows xp machines on cruddy old hardware across the company.
With extended support for XP ending April next year we're looking into our options.
Couple of options:
Replace the 300 PC's with full windows 7 PC's (£100k +?) - no use of…
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Remote Desktop Services login history
Is it possible to generate a report of past user logins to a Windows Server 2008 Remote Desktop Services server?
The closest Event Viewer logs I can find are under Application and Services Logs --> Microsoft --> Windows -->…
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