So I am setting up a new RDS configuration. I have the all of the RDS roles installed on one server except the license server. It is on a Domain Controller. Here is what I am seeing when a user logs into the RD server. 

1. Open a remote desktop session on the RDP server. Licensing Manager then shows this. That’s good.
2. Click on the license details and you can see that it issued a license to one user. That’s good.
3. Run a report to see User Cal usage. Still looks good.
   
4. Go back to Server name, REFRESH the view, and now I have 10 licenses available, 0 issued. User is still logged in and the only thing I did was run the report.
5. Go to the RD License and the issued license is gone. When the issued license is in here, I cant revoke it, but running the reports sure does revoke it.

Has anyone seen this before? Am I doing something wrong? Please help!

Hi everyone,

I have setup an Windows 2012 RDS host and am able to access it externally by using https://remote.domain.com/rdweb.

Therefore I can log in and launch remote apps.

Local printers get redirected, but I do not seem to be able to see the remote printers on the RDS server.

The printer is installed and it is installed on the server.

• Added with IP address
• Enable Device redirection is checked
• Appropriate users are added to proper security groups
• we have some that show that was put there by previous employee, but i am not able to add more to show in web access.

What if I want to print on the server printer rather than my own printer?

How to get to show the printers in the RDWEB page?

We have setup a single RDS 2012 R2 running a few published apps via RD web

Because these apps are for remote users only, we have a seperate RDS gateway server (2012 R2) setup as well for that purpose.

All remote users are on Win10.

At random times during the day (really no pattern to it) the remote apps the user has open will start stealing focus.

For example they might be typing a new email in their outlook (which is installed locally on the PC), while the remote app program is sitting in the background open, and it will steal focus and come to the foreground.

Here is what I've checked so far:

• I cannot see any disconnections of the client on the event logs of the RD gateway or the RDS server.
• I have tried the following fix without any changes:
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client]
  "RDGClientTransport"=dword:00000001 
• This KB doesn't really apply to this problem: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2964832
• This KB can't run on Windows 10: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2862019
• The users have written down the exact times when this focus issue happens and I can't see any event logs on the PC or the servers that would explain this.
• With a full desktop RDS this problem doesn't happen
• Organising some downtime so I can install November Roll Up updates (last update was done in 02/11/2016)

I'm a bit at loss here, has anyone seen this one before?

Using 2016 server using Failover Cluster Manager running multiple VMs and RDS setup. 

On one specific Vm for just a few of the users when they try to login the screen just keeps flashing and the login is never successful.  Only a reboot of the VM fixes the problem temporarily but then it is back the next day. 

All user accounts are domain accounts. 

The error log shows this - 

Faulting application name: explorer.exe, version: 10.0.14393.3053, time stamp: 0x5d01d1c5
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.14393.2969, time stamp: 0x5ccd148a
Exception code: 0xc0000409
Fault offset: 0x0000000000095ebf
Faulting process id: 0x2220
Faulting application start time: 0x01d54571ddd16db0
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\explorer.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Report Id: 55df0ec3-4338-4090-afdf-c0657411d218
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 

I have done a fair bit of googling and this seems to be a fairly common issue with no obvious fix other than to rebuild the VM from scratch. 

The thing is it only applies to certain user accounts on the VM not all of them and when the issue is present I can still login with the domain admin account with no problems. 

So couple of questions - 

1) If it is only specific user accounts that display this problem does that suggest that it is not an issue with the VM or is that a false assmumption ? 

2) If it just the user accounts then what I want to do is create new accounts for these users but then I need to replicate their profile in terms of desktop settings etc. 

Can someone tell me how to go about doing that ? 

Any help or suggestions on the above would be much appreciated. 

I'm having issues getting a RDS session host to be issued licenses from the RD licensing server.(configuration is below) If I open the RD Licensing Diagnoser on Server2 I can see it's pointing to Server1 for licensing but it tells me that 

I entered credentials for Server1 in to server2 Licensing Diagnoser and it connected ok and showed all the available licenses. I then rebooted Server2 and check again and I'm getting the above error message and it won't accept the credentials for Server1, I even setup a new Administrator user on Server1 and tried those credentials and it will not accept it, it immediately fails with no error and the password prompt remains. No configuration changed between the time it took to restart server2, why is this happening? I went in to credential manager on server2, deleted the credentials and retyped them but it doesn't help.

We have two RDS 2016 Servers in a workgroup environment so had to use per device CALS.

Server1 (WORKGROUP)

RD Session Host

Licensing Server Installed and Activated (12 Device CALS installed)

Server 2 (WORKGROUP)

RD Session Host

Connects to Server1 licensing server

Hi, I've this issue after migration of RDS server from 2012 R2 to 2016 and client have Windows 10 1709 but with Windows 10 1703 no issue.

Any suggestions?

Remote App and Desktop Connection has been working fine for a long time, today we tried to add this Remote App to a new users computer and are getting the message "An error occurred, contact your system administrator"

Each time we try and connect, an event ID 1309 is logged in theApplication Event Log and the output is as follows:

Server is Windows Server 2012.

Event code: 3005

Event message: An unhandled exception has occurred.

Event time: 29/07/2019 13:20:55

Event time (UTC): 29/07/2019 12:20:55

Event ID: f9fa47823cd6482d970739de8f39ec5e

Event sequence: 14

Event occurrence: 5

Event detail code: 0

Application information:

    Application domain: /LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT/RDWeb/FeedLogin-2-132088762149519861

    Trust level: Full

    Application Virtual Path: /RDWeb/FeedLogin

    Application Path: C:\Windows\Web\RDWeb\FeedLogin\

    Machine name: SERVER

Process information:

    Process ID: 2796

    Process name: w3wp.exe

    Account name: IIS APPPOOL\RDWebAccess

Exception information:

    Exception type: NullReferenceException

    Exception message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

   at ASP.webfeedlogin_aspx.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in c:\Windows\Web\RDWeb\FeedLogin\WebFeedLogin.aspx:line 17

   at System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e)

   at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()

   at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)

Request information:

    Request URL: https://MYDOMAIN.COM:443/RDWeb/FeedLogin/WebFeedlogin.aspx?ReturnUrl=/rdweb/feed/webfeed.aspx

    Request path: /RDWeb/FeedLogin/WebFeedlogin.aspx

    User host address: 217.x.x.x

    User: 

    Is authenticated: False

    Authentication Type: 

    Thread account name: IIS APPPOOL\RDWebAccess

Thread information:

    Thread ID: 12

    Thread account name: IIS APPPOOL\RDWebAccess

    Is impersonating: False

    Stack trace:    at ASP.webfeedlogin_aspx.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in c:\Windows\Web\RDWeb\FeedLogin\WebFeedLogin.aspx:line 17

   at System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e)

   at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()

   at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi There,

We have recently moved from Citrix XEN to MS Windows Hyper-V to provision our virtual machines to students to teach them how to work with certain hardware/software. To reach our goal we've setup 5 blades running Server 2019 Datacenter Edition with Hyper-V and an extra blade that runs our RDS environment. Since we have students remoting in from a variety of places and companies and RDP is blocked by most we opted to use the new HTML 5 webclient.

The problem we are facing is that in an HTML5 session, whenever a students accesses a ProLiant iLO through either .NET or Java the keyboard stops functioning, or should we say, the key mapping no longer makes sense. The ENTER key works but everything else is not resulting in output. If we take over our HTML5 session with RDP we can see that the input is in fact there, but it is gibberish.. in other words a W becomes a / and a ? becomes a ".In NOTEPAD or WORD or any other application the input is proper and keyboard mapping is fine. As soon as we open an iLO session or even the ESX Console the keyboard mapping is off.

We thought of raising a case with MicroSoft, however, HTML 5 webclient still being a BETA Product we figured try the forum first. 

Thanks!

Dimitri. 

Hi,

As RDS 2019 upgrade documentation seems to be non existing, I thought I'd ask this question here. Is it still necessary to migrate a connection broker from version 2016 to 2019 by doing an in place upgrade of the machine as was the case with 2012 to 2016? As the connection broker role is basically the same in both versions, I thought it might be possible to place the 2016 broker in HA mode, add a 2019 broker and remove the 2016 machine after that.

Is that possible?

Hello Team,

Currently our server is configured with a license server type "TS or RDS Per Device". The server mode is configured for "Per User", but diagnostic is presenting the following problem: 

The Remote Desktop Session Host server is in Per User licensing mode and No Redirector Mode, but license server servername01.local does not have any installed licenses with the following attributes:
Product version: Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2
Licensing mode: Per User
License type: RDS CALs

The suggested solution is: 

Use RD Licensing Manager to install the appropriate licenses on the license server or change the licensing mode for the Remote Desktop Session Host server.

How I can resolve this issue? The intent is to have the server license running in "Per User" mode. 

Regards!

Hi,
I have new Windows Server 2019 with role RDP. But I have problém with RD Web Access. When I connect to website Rdweb (from localhost, from local net, remote net) always I get "Runtime error".

I've been trying to find a fault for a long time, but nothing - still RDWeb/Pages "Runtime error" respective "Object reference is not set to an object instance.".I set up debug and log and everything what I have is:

1.) from web pages

Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an object instance.

Source error:

Line 91:         if ( eAuthenticationMode == AuthenticationMode.Forms )
Line 92:         {
Line 93:             if ( HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated == false )
Line 94:             {
line 95:                 bool fQueryContainsReturnUrl = false;                  

Source file:  c:\Windows\Web\RDWeb\Pages\cs-CZ\Default.aspx    Line:93            

Stack Trace:[NullReferenceException:Object reference is not set to an object instance.]
   ASP.<GetAppsAsync>d__0.MoveNext() in c:\Windows\Web\RDWeb\Pages\cs-CZ\Default.aspx:93
   System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() +31
   System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) +60
   System.Web.UI.<ExecuteTasksAsync>d__3.MoveNext() +364
   System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() +31
   System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task) +60
   System.Web.UI.<ProcessRequestAsync>d__554.MoveNext() +997

2.) from Event Viewer

ID event: 1309       Task category: Web Event

cannot figure this one out, any ideas would be appreciated

Please help , many thank Josef K.

Hello, I currently have a Remote Desktop Server "Windows Server 2012 R2" running in a small but busy Accounting Office and it's working great but during last tax season it bogged down from time to time so we are considering implementing a 2nd Remote Desktop Server to help service the load..

Here's some details:

1 - Approx 30 Users running MSOffice and Accounting Apps connecting via RDWeb to run Apps..

2 - The current RDS is a Physical installation with no Gateway as there's no external access at this time to limit security issues.

Question: My plan is to install a New Host "Windows Server 2016" and implement the new RDS as a Virtual Server and I'm not sure if I should tie it back to the current Physical so it can manage the load balancing or if I should just set this up as a separate standalone and just instruct the users how to access each server.. 

My concern is if I tie it to the Physical RDS and there's a problem with the physical server then will it prevent users from accessing the new Virtual RDS.. 

Thanks for you help...Scott

Hi,

I have win server 2016 standard. I bought 15 cals and 5 remote desktop users.

I have 15 "real" users, and 5 "devices" (scanner guns, see pic)  that connect straight to the server using RDP using other usernames (gun name).

Question: do I also need a CAL for these users (that will never connect from a computer) or the RDP license is enough?

Thank you.

Alain Bourgeois

Hi everyone,

I have a Win Server 2016 with RD Services on it. Everything is running fine but Remotedesktopgateway cannot be configured by me. I installed the role without errors but configuration ends in the error:

RD Gateway Configuration Failed on [X] With Error: Unable to configure the RD Gateway server: [X] . The error is You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.. (event-id 4119)

I found no solutions to resolve this issue on the web. I think the problem occurs already during the installation process because the RPC application is missing in the IIS. It's not the first installation of the RDG. Maybe there are some old entries in the registry what cause this failure but I do not know where to search ... Would be nice to get some help from the community ...

Thanks,
Chris

Does anyone have a resolution for this issue?
I'm trying to implement this in our Azure environment: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Automatic-Scaling-of-9b4f5e76/view/Discussions#content
When we run this script against our RD Connection Broker that has multiple collections, we have an issue with all servers in a single collection being set to drain mode. 

Details: We have 2 Collections on the RD Connection Broker. Both Collections have 3 RD Host Servers. The RD Host servers in each Collection are each in their own Resource Group, meaning all RD Host Servers for a collection are grouped into a single resource group.

I set the Config to keep up 2 Servers in off peak mode and run the script against a resource group. All servers in Collection A were put into Drain Mode. All 3 RD Host servers in the collection had a user logged in, so that may have caused an issue as well.

Can anyone offer suggestions on how to force this script to only focus on a single collection? Or is there a better way of accomplishing this?
Thanks in advance!

Redirected profile including AppData and since doing updates on some machines, they are getting an error stating windows cannot access the specific device, path or file.

Our organization uses redirected profiles AppData and since doing updates on some machine, they are getting an error stating windows cannot access the specific device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item. The path listed is C:\Program files\windowsApps\%AppName%. Common occurances are Microsoft.office.Desktop.PowerPoint or Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub .

This is happening on multiple machines ranging from version 1709, 1803 and 1809.

Please let me know if any one have solution.

Unable to take remote access from windows 10 machine in workgroup environment to windows server 2016 joined to Domain using MSTC by using  Domain user credentials.

Got stuck in a login loop, login credentials window popping again and again.

Tried multiple Domain Users credential but still same issue.

From Other workgroup computer in same location having windows 10 OS, remote access to windows server 2016 is working fine by using same domain credentials.

Please let me know if there is any solution.

I have Windows Server 2019 Standard installed on Vmware Vsphere 6.7. I have activated the License of the Server & joined the server to the domain controller. After that I have tried to Install Remote Desktop  Terminal Services . I am getting the below error.

Error Description:- Session Based Desktop Deployment-- Failed--  local host: One or more errors occured

Hi,

I have a newly installed Windows 2016 Terminal server. I sat up HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TerminalServer\fSingleSessionPerUser registry setting to allow one user multiple login.

As I expected the users could log in multiple times, but the second, third ... login could not run programs, explorer restarts.

Eg: cmd wont run, but the registry editor runs.

Did i miss a required settings, anyone faced a problem like this?

Regards, Robert

Hi

We are having a strange error with a windows 10 (1903) trying to RDP to a windows 2016 server. We receiving an error An internal error has occurred. We can however, rdp to other servers. We tried different profiles also and same error message. If we reboot the RDS server it is okay for a few days... There are no other error messages. It was working previously then just broke. Also the firewalls are disabled on both sides.