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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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TS Redrawing Constantly

On one of our terminal servers, a certain client is redrawing certain windows constantly, giving the appearance of a flashing window. It is temporarily cured by a logout and log back on, but recurres after a couple minutes. Does anyone have any…
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Identify remote desktop client software and OS when user logs into Windows 2008 R2 Remote Desktop

We would like to detect what devices & what programs users are using to connect to the Windows 2008 R2 Remote Desktop. In particular, we would like to have an ability to detect the remote devices such as iPads, iPhones & Androids, identify the…
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Windows Terminal Services 2008 left handed mouse support?

I have a left handed user that is trying to use remote desktop to our windows server 2008 terminal services server. Their local machine works fine, with the mouse settings swapped around. However, when this person connects in to the terminal…
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Prevent access to user documents for users logging in from terminal server

I am fairly new to administrating servers, but I have been charged with the task of working out remote access to the company's network. The general plan is to connect through a VPN to a terminal server connected to the network. The users will then…
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Terminal Server Excel export

I have an application I have exported as a RemoteApp via a 2008 R2 (recently upgraded from 2008) terminal server. Ever since the upgrade the excel export function of this app (which actually opens a copy of Excel) has been running much more slowly…
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How to disable Windows Server 2003 terminal server PIN login without losing smart card support?

The users of a Windows Server 2003 terminal server should be able to use their national identity card (a smart card) inside the terminal session. This requires the Remote Desktop Connection's [x] Smart Cards checkbox to be checked. Unfortunately…
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Windows Server 2003 RDP not listening on IPv6

i have a Windows Server 2003 machine; with IPv6 enabled: Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : newland.local IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.244 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . :…
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Terminal Services & rdp-tcp Session

I've been introducing myself to Terminal Services and I had a question regarding a session, specifically the rdp-tcp session that's established by default ... C:\Documents and Settings\BMC>query session SESSIONNAME USERNAME ID…
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Best practice to connect to Citrix XenApp

What is best practice to connect to your Citrix XenApp servers? Putting the addresses of all servers in a client, or putting one dns entry with multiple a-records?
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Microsoft Terminal Server clipboard corruption

I've got a client running Terminal Server 2008 R2, connecting from Windows XP terminal services client (not sure of the local RDP version, I think they've got all their service packs though) and whenever they copy text from the terminal server and…
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What is the best way of restricting user profile size in a Terminal Server environment?

From this link I understand that my two options are: NTFS Quotas The "Limit profile size" policy setting I prefer option (1) because I really want to limit the overall size of everyone's profile so a single user can't fill up the C:/ drive.…
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Binding the RDP listener to 127.0.0.1 only

I'm trying to bind the remote desktop listener to 127.0.0.1 on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise. I tried tscc.msc but it only lets you choose a certain physical adapter. Also by quickly glancing over…
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Mac office which needs to run windows application and we don't want parallels on every mac

Have a small law office which uses all Macs but then has a Windows based case management system. Right now they all run Parallels Desktop and it's a bit difficult to manage. I'd like to move the case management system over to Terminal Services so it…
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Stopping Multiple processes in a multi-user environment

We have recently moved our production terminal servers from stand alone blades into a data centre running on virtual servers(windows 2003). We are starting to suffer quite major performance issues, and one of the main culprits seems to be IE7, and…
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Terminal Services License Server will only issue temporary licenses

I have a Windows 2003 machine as a license server and two Windows 2000 servers running Terminal Services. For some reason I can't fathom, the license server will only issue temporary licenses. If I run licmgr.exe, I get the following…
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