"Terminal Services" is the name used in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and earlier, for what is in later versions known as "Remote Desktop Services". It allows its users to run applications on a remote server, sending only mouse/keyboard input and screen updates across the network.
Questions tagged [windows-terminal-services]
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Where do files go if I lose a Remote Desktop session?
Where do files go if I lose a Terminal Services session and could reconnect until after my session had expired? Are they lost in the ether or would Windows save them somewhere?
Not sure if this matters, but I was working on a text file in Notepad…
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To VDI or not? Having a central desktop for a group of old computers
I'm planning to work on a contract with a nonprofit organization that supports low-income areas in the South-east Washington D.C. area with computers as a community service so that people can use the computers to look for jobs, work on homework,…
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Create self-signed terminal services certificate and install it
The server RDP certificate expires every 6 months and is automatically recreated, meaning I need to re-install the new certificate on the client machines to allow users to save password.
Is there a straightforward way to create a self-signed…
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Server 2003 R2 SE (x86) Terminal Server Service failure
So, I'm having an odd and new to me problem on one of our Server 2003 R2, SE x86 VMs.
The long and short of is that ever since patching last month, we can't seem to RDP into the box, and we do need to from time to time, because it's our Exchange…
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Terminal Services Admin only for specific users
Is there a way to allow a user access to tsadmin, but only to remote in on certain users? For example: The user is mgr of our billing department and has 3 team members in remote locations. I would like for her to be able to remote in the team…
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Assign static IP to Users that access using Terminal Services (Remote Desktop)
For a project I'm working on I'm looking for the ability to assign a specific ip to users when they start a terminal service session.
I'm using Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and I tried using Remote Desktop IP Virtualization but as far I understand it…
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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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Remote Desktop Connection Denied because the user account is not authorized for remote login
I have set up Terminal Services in Windows 2003.
Which is part of the domain. That server is not DC. It has only one role: Terminal Server
When I'm trying to log in to it via RDP as an Domain Administrator or any other user
in the Domain Admins…
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Can I limit user bandwidth/ram usage/CPU usage in Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2?
I would like to limit the resource usage on a per user basis on a Windows Server 2003, 2008, or 2008 R2 machine. Suppose I have four users logged into one machine using TS and they are all using various resources. How do I make sure that each user…
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RDP: Remote app does not encapsulate traffic when connecting via remote desktop gateway server
I have a remote desktop app that was published from a third-party corporation to one of my clients. The remote desktop app connects to a Remote Desktop Gateway Server (RDGW), which forwards the request to a Remote Desktop-serverfarm, where the least…
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Reverting "Do you want to find PC's, devices and content"
We are having some problems with printers automatically being added on a 2012R2 RDS host, and suspect the following dialog (where we pressed Yes) to be the issue..
How can this setting be reverted?
It is a virtual server in a domain network (and is…
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Determine timestamp for last login onto terminal server (2003)
I am migrating a server and need a list of the last time users logged in, since just getting whos logged in currently won't help as its a remote terminal server and not everyone is logged in at the same time especially with a global company. I…
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Keyboard shortcut for "Use another account" in RDP
When using RDPing into a Windows Server 2008 server, it will often prompt you for credentials before you login. I noticed that tab will skip to the option to Remember my credentials, totally skipping Use another account.
Is there a keyboard shortcut…
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How to query what users are logged on to a remote server's Terminal Services
I've used quser before to query users on the local server. I noticed today that it has an option for querying a remote server. However, when I tried it, I keep getting the following error:
C:\Users\nimmylebby>quser administrator…
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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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