Hi Everyone,
I was wondering if you know a way to manage memory allocation for users that connect to a Windows Server 2016 with the Remote Desktop Services role installed?
We currently have 512 GB of RAM and we have an average of 60 - 70 users connected daily on the server (only 1 instance). Users are reporting that the server is slow and I can see that only 80 - 90 GB or RAM is in use, everything else is on Cached memory.
Any ideas?
Thank you very much
LiviuM
Dear all,
I am having serious problems while connecting using VPN to RDP to terminal server using smartcard. While I try to log in from one machine it works flawlessly (even it is quite slow). However, when I try to login concurrently from 2 machines using smartcard, I got an error saying that there is no smartcard present, or there are no authentication certificates. Once I get such error, the terminal server is restarted (WS2012R2, WS2016, WS2019 - tested on all versions). In the event log, there is an error lsass.exe crash with status code -1073740940. As this happens only sometimes, we cannot easily reproduce it, but the chance that the server will crash on Kerberos authentication is much higher when 2 clients are connecting concurrently.
Do you have any ideas where might be a problem?
Jan
Hello,
I am currently setting up the Terminal Server collection (session host) testing environment, the collection included 3 session hosts(with load balance), 6 users, and the user profiles are located on a file server. All servers OS are the Windows Server Std eval.We just built a new Windows Server 2019 server running Remote Desktop Services 2019, using the Quick Start install. It's a single server so everything is on that one server including the Licensing Server. Domain Users can connect without issues, but local users that connect remotely get an error "Remote Desktop License Issue" "There is a problem with your Remote Desktop license, and your session will be disconnected in 60 minutes". The local user does indeed get disconnected in 60 minutes and has to reconnect. What's wrong?
NOTE: I noticed in the Remote Desktop Licensing Diagnoser that the Remote Desktop Host Server version is Windows Server 2016 for some reason. It should be 2019.
I use a programme called Acomba and make it open in rpd on the server windows 2016 Essencial.
It's work corectly, but these programme require to have outlook 2016 open on the session to be able to send email.
Actually, I need to make both programme open and my user get confuse between that remote outlook and theyr local outlook.
I need a way that on session opening, outlook open but remain invisible to the user. Thanks.
We are having an issues with our Win2012R2 RDS setup where the RD Gateway presents an outdated (and since renewed) cert to the end users connecting.
The cert used is not anymore referenced in the deployment (which lists the correct, new certificate)
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-RDCertificate -ConnectionBroker rd-sx-03.domain.com Role Level ExpiresOn IssuedTo ---- ----- --------- -------- RDRedirector Trusted 06/07/2021 01:59:59 CN=*.domain.com, OU=PositiveSSL Wildcard, OU=Domai... RDPublishing Trusted 06/07/2021 01:59:59 CN=*.domain.com, OU=PositiveSSL Wildcard, OU=Domai... RDWebAccess Trusted 06/07/2021 01:59:59 CN=*.domain.com, OU=PositiveSSL Wildcard, OU=Domai... RDGateway Trusted 06/07/2021 01:59:59 CN=*.domain.com, OU=PositiveSSL Wildcard, OU=Domai...
...and is not even to be found in the certificate stores of the machine. I guess it is somehow cached in some obscure place I am not aware of.
In any case it is pretty confounding... Any idea how to solve this ?
Hi,
Appreciate the help. I am writing an application which will use a simple license server that I develop to authenticate users.
For my customers, I would prefer that they not need to open a port on their router and windows 7 / 10. Is there a port generally open by default where the client app can request license validation?
Thanks,
Charles
I would like some help troubleshooting Remote Apps on Windows Server 2012 R2. For the most part, this service runs pretty well, but lately, we've had users that suddenly can't log in.
They will either see their session attempt to log in but never get past "Waiting for the User Profile Service", Or they might se the dialog "The task you are trying to do can't be completed because Remote Desktop Service is currently busy. Please try again in a few minutes. Other users should still be able to sign in."
When I'm able to log in as an admin at this point, and select the Remote Apps icon in server manager, many of the components have the green in their image (Usually indicating they have not been configured yet). A restart usually resolves everything temporarily.
At one point when I selected the connection broker, I saw a red message across the top stating,"could not find the license server", which is on the same server. At this point it gets really bad, and even logging out of the server as an admin can hang.
I've noticed in task manager at this point there can be many processes running by the same name, as if logging off as a user does not kill their running processes.
Anyway. A push in the right direction would be most appreciated. Thanks
I have a Windows server 2012 running as a terminal server for about 10 users. Each morning for the last few days we have been having issues with user profiles not loading. At least one user has a temp profile when login in first thing in the morning. So far rebooting the server fixes and all is well for the rest of the day. So far each morning its a different user and it has happened to two users at the same time.
Just wondering what could cause this and where would i start looking to see for the cause of this issue? I've taken a look at the event viewer but couldn't find anything obvious.
Why my desktop icons flickering when i login via remote desktop?
The server i remote is windows server 2012
Thanks
Hello All,
We have big issues with our customer.
The environment is an rds 2016 farm with 1 broker and a gateway and 20 rds windows server 2016 and a remote server for remore login.
For our production collection we encounter serieus issues since the 8th of January 2020.
The thing is we have 20 rds windows server 2016 servers with 6 core per socket and 1 virtual socket 24 gb ram.
The broker normally devides the sessions per server but for some kind of reason we see that on the broker 1 user is logged into a server.
However when i log in on the server directly there are 30 users logged and then then server become unstable.
Every morning this is happening now and it is not every time the same server.
we set the server with too many connections to false and then restart the broker and then try to log of the users and dismount there profile disk so they can log in on a different server.
What we also see is the proces termsvc is 98%!!
Does someone know what is causing this issue we did not do any changes to the server and it worked always perfectly.
We have approximately 328 users devided over 21 rds server ( this is included the remote server.
Dear All,
Somebody has experience with problems connecting to Server 2016 RDS server for Apple Devices,
Working perfectly for any other client
But when a Apple device wants to connect through HTML5 secure connection i get a disconnection log ,
Error message
The server security layer detected an error (0x80004005) in the protocol stream and the client,
I unchecked the remote desktop setting for NLA usage in the security settings of the session collection but it doesnt make a difference, also I pushed a gpo for this setting enforced,
Security level is negotiate and encryption level Client compatible,
The disconnect reason is 14
I see its building up the connection , it did accept the connection , connection id created ,PrepareforAccept ,SendPolicyData,Perfcounter session started with instance id, and then it gets this security layer error message (0x80004005)
I have configured my Windows Server 2019 to start a program on remote connection.
This works fine, but our customers do not like the pitchblack background of the remotesession.
Is there a possibility to change this background to another color?
I know this issue was already discussed in this question but no Answer was provided.
Hi,
why after disabling IPv6 on my LAN, Direct access works on some laptops and does not work on others ?
Best regards,
AHL
AHL1988
Hi,
All our win 10 1903 clients, immediately after been updated from 1803 to 1903 start repeating keystrokes in remote apps. Servers are 2012 R2. RemoteFX cannot be disabled on session hosts servers since that solution causes problems to some of the apps running. Any one facing the same problem ? Any solution?
I installed RDS server in windows 2012 R2. Then as business need, we renamed servername1 to servername2. In Server Manager - Remote Desktop Services, there shows error "The following server in this deployment are not part of thee server pool"
1. servername1.domainname.com
The servers must be added to the server pool.
I tried to fix this problem by running powershell to remove servernmame1 and add servername2. but each get write error. Any help to result these are highly appreciated!
xception of type 'Microsoft.RemoteDesktopServices.Common.RDManagementException' was thrown.
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Write-Error], RDManagementException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.RemoteDesktopServices.Common.RDManagementException,Micros
oft.PowerShell.Commands.WriteErrorCommand
+ PSComputerName : localhost
Add-RDServer : The server is joined to the deployment as a RD Session Host server.
The following servers did not validate successfully.
EQRCTX11NEW.EQRWORLD.COM
At line:1 char:1
+ Add-RDServer -Server "servername1.domainname.com" -Role "RDS-RD-SERVER"
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Write-Error], WriteErrorException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WriteErrorException,Add-RDServer
- John
Hello,
I have a big RDS farm at a client, which mixes RDSH and RemoteApp session.
I'm able to publish those work resources into Session open into the RDSH collection of my farm. This way, my user (on their thinclient) are able to access the RemoteApp published by the collection, everything works fine, but I had to use the Windows 7 way, with the Powershell script and the feed.aspx file.
Everything fine this way, and our end-user are pleased to have direct access to the app from their Windows session.
But we also need to use redirected StartMenu via GPO, and when this is set, we cannot publish the Work Resources anymore.
I know that publishing those work resources create an entry in the start menu, but if I deactivate the publishing GPO, apply the redirected StartMenu GPo, I can't manually publish those Work Resources.
Any ideas of the why, and maybe the how to correct this ?
Regards
I have a server 2019 remote desktop services collection. The hosts have the standard filewall rules. I can sucsefully RDP from my PC both to the console, and a session on the server from my PC. If I try to shadow a user session the mstsc just closes.
I created a pass all TCP rule from my PC to the host on its firewall and the shadow function then works. I cannot however find any doumentation about which states what range I should open for shadow traffic. Running netstat (see below) shows the established connection when the firewall rule is active, and syn_sent when not active.
Can somone advise of what port range I need open?
Many thanks.
Matthew
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netstat
TCP 192.168.nnn.70:55516 rdhxxx19-3:63954 ESTABLISHED - this is with all tcp traffic allowed
TCP 192.168.nnn.70:55531 rdhxxx19-3:63986 SYN_SENT - thi sis with only standard ports (inc. 3389) open
I expect this may be my mistake and I'm more than happy to be corrected...but when configuring Remote Desktop Gateway policies on Windows Server 2019 I am missing the "Device Redirection" tab. Its not available in the options anywhere.
Has that feature been removed from Windows Server 2019?
I would like to try and disable some device redirection settings...which seemed straightforward :-)
Thanks