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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 Freezing

I've only basic Windows Server knowledge and I've inherited responsibility for a Terminal Server installation with 20-30 concurrent users (Windows Server 2003). There are intermittent problems with performance - ultimately due to to the low spec of…
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Migrating Terminal Server profiles from 2003 to 2008 R2 "V2"

I've done some searching and there doesn't appear to be a method of migrating old 2003 based profiles to the new "V2" profiles automatically. Specifically, we're interested in retaining the .NK2 file in Outlook, the Favorites folder, and…
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Terminal Server Licensing: This Licensing ID will expire within 90 days

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? I logged into my Microsoft portal to check out if I can migrate my Terminal Services licenses from a 2003 to 2008 server and I got red message saying: "This Licensing ID…
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What's using all my memory?

SOLUTION: There's a lot of stuff to read in this thread, so i'll just summarize here to help. The problem is the VMWare ESX balloon driver which "inflates" the amount of memory "in use" that the OS sees in order to force the OS to dump caches and…
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How do I remove the on screen keyboard from the logon screen in Windows Remote Desktop Server 2008 R2?

The on screen keyboard (OSK) from the "ease of access" tools pops up on EVERY connect to the server, even if you have not activated it. I can't seem to find a control panel or reg setting to switch it off. It is VERY "in your face" for linux users…
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Terminal Server/Citrix XenApp alternative?

Is there something less costly than Citrix XenApp and something better than Windows TS? The industry seems to be dominated by citrix. I'm currently using Windows 2000 Server Terminal Server, but now I have to switch to something better because of…
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Microsoft Hyper-V: Terminal Server best practice?

We have an environment with maybe 150 users. The users have thin clients and connect to various terminal servers. We just replaced all of the old server 2008 terminal server vms with nice new server 2019 terminal server vms, but many of the users…
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"We can't sign into your account" is shown after restart on terminal server 2016

We installed a complete new server 2016 environment with 5 terminal servers in a farm. We also use User Profile Disks for the profiles. The fault: When the domain administrator is logged on to any terminal server and the terminal server gets…
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How to override Policy setting for specific OU

I have an issue applying a GPO for an OU. The case is that i have a RDS server that various users connect to it... For the users i have the policy "Restrict Remote Desktop Services users to a single Remote Desktop Services session" Enabled....so…
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Windows Server 2016 Remote Desktop Services Starting program

I've setup a Windows Server 2016 RDP server and everything works except for the in AD specified Starting program that won't launch. The program specified exists on the server and it works perfectly on a Windows 2008 R2 RDP server, so I don't…
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Remote printing using Terminal Services

We have 250 staff and all need to be able to print to their printer at home. What it is the best way to do this? Do I need all 250 printer drivers on the server? If I upgrade from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2, will I gain anything…
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Terminal Server Won't Run a Program in a Session

I'm running a Windows 2008 Enterprise 32-bit installation in Terminal Services mode. I have a program that runs locally, but will not run while connected with RDP. When trying to launch it, I can see the program running in the task manager but it…
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Multiple RDP sessions on a single computer?

I've got users using RDP to connect to a Windows 2008 with Windows Server 2008's Terminal Server Application mode. (Users RDP in and get an app that looks like it's running locally.) It works great. But our guys need to be able to run multiple…
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What is the most cost effective method for licensing Microsoft Office on network computers

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? I have a small (50 seats) office domain that needs to have Office 2007 available to the users. The cost to purchase volume licenses seems quite high at about $350/seat. …
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Control /dev/pts/* assignments

I am trying to find a way to create a udev rule for a network connected terminal? Basically I need the rule to say a specific MAC address, or IP, is always assigned pseudo terminal /dev/pts/5 for example. We have instances where Thin Clients are…
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