Hello,

Scenario: a user from USER-PC connects to Remote desktop Windows 2008 R2 server SERVER-01. In SERVER-01 for that user %CLIENTNAME% is USER-PC. After that inside this remote session he starts to work with RemoteApp from another terminal Windows Server 2008 R2 SERVER-02. And in SERVER-02 for that user %CLIENTNAME% is SERVER-01. I understand, that it should be so, but is there a way to get original %CLIENTNAME% (USER-PC) from that nested session in SERVER-02?

May be is there a way to change %CLIENTNAME% environment variable? I tried "setenv" utility, but seems it does not work with Windows 7/Windows 2008. SetX does not work with volatile environment variables.

Hello,

we would like to deploy to our users web application using Internet Explorer which is published over RemoteApps. Because this application takes long time to load we would like to prevent user from closing application. So we would like that session and application stays opened when the user clicks on close button on Internet Explorer that is published over RemoteApps.

In other words, we would like to disconnect client from RemoteApp session, but stay logged in and keep the application running in the background.

Is this possible to do?

Thank you!

Best wishes,
Marko

Hello everyone,

I created a virtual desktop collection with a name format like this , prefix = VDI-, suffix= 1 .

so when I created the first VMs , I had VDI-1 and VDI-2 , later after recreating the VMs, adding new ones and deleting others, the suffix numbers are no longer in sequence , like I started having VDI-1,VDI-2,VDI-8,VDI-9.

I realized I had one problem that probably caused this, because when I delete a VM , I get a warning message:

"RD connection broker could not delete the computer account object from active directory."

so I searched about that error and I added the needed permissions and now deleting seems to work without any warning.

now I have two VMs, when I go through the wizard , the first page it shows I have 2 VMs but in the second page it shows I have 11 ! is there a way to reset the count ? if I delete the entire collection and create it again , will I have any problem with the roaming users profiles ?

Thanks

I can connect directly to the server without a remote resource in the IOS app.

But I'd like to be able to connect to computers in the office like we can through RWW. RWW works fine, but not from my phone. (Yes I can connect to the server and take over computers from the phone but I don't want other people in the office to log into the server first!).

I can never get the remote resources section in the app to connect. I usually get "Unable to locate any remote resources for the URL". error in the resources section. I've tried a simple "https://remote.domain.com", "https://remote.domain.com:987", etc.  

We have a self-signed certificate. I can't think of anything in the server setup that is anything other than normal.

I can do direct connect using "Remote Desktop Connection" in windows 7. In the remote desktop server settings I just put remote.domain.com and "Ask for password (NTLM)" for the login method. Then on the general tab I have just the simple computer name and the domain\username. That's all I had to setup to get that to work.

Any suggestions?

HI, I have on TS server. Is running and no issue. I have created a TS farm TS1(old), ts02(new), GW(gateway and connection)
The new setup Work perfekt but have to configure roaming.
TS1(old) users is created under c:\users and I make at folder redirection to \\TS1(old)\users.

I have setup DFSroot \\domain.com\users and like to roaming users so the can get there profiles on TS1 or TS2

I have make GRP/direct input in users AD TS profiles

How to get it Work correct. Users should not see any diff. then logon to TS02 or TS02 How to -

I have set up a standard 3 node 2012 R2 RDS for testing. All virtualized on VMware ESXi 5.0. I have a connection Broker, session host, and web access server. I have published several applications and I can access them without a problem. Here is my issue:

When I try to log on to my session host server either locally or thru RDP, I am always logged in with a Temporary profile. It does not mater what user account I use. Even logging on locally as the administrator I get a temporary profile.

All windows updates are installed and current.

I have removed the server from the domain, deleted the account, and rejoined it to the domain.

I have deleted all .bak registry entries from here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

There is a hotfix here for a similar issue on 2012 but it does not apply to 2012 R2

The only event viewer errors are:

1515 (Windows has backed up this user profile. Windows will automatically try to use the backup profile the next time this user logs on.)

1511 (Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off.)

Any suggestions to resolve would be greatly appreciated.

Russ

Hi there,
We have about 15 - 20 users on an RDS server and different users often experience several seconds lag when entering text with their keyboards.

We've found CPU usage at different times averaging 30-70%. We have doubled the RAM and added a second processor with the RDS set to use it as exclusive numa node, but the problem doesn't appear to have ceased at all.

Looking into the threads of highest CPU time user processes (often IE11) with process explorer, we found reference to protected mode and this being about 80% of that process demand.

I'd like to test if there are performance improvements with all users having Protected Mode disabled via GPP.

This setting however isn't avail in GPP and we have Win 2008 R2 so IE8 is latest version listed. I've manually edited an IE8 InternetSettings.xml like so http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2733083
add disabled="1" to every XML tag that includes the following value:
name=”2500”
Also set version tag max="11.5.0.0"

But...

We have a Windows Server 2008 R2 server that publishes a few remote apps that my users access.  One of our sites has been complaining of issues where their PC will stop responding for minutes at a time.  They can move the mouse around but clicks don't resond.  They claim that if they close the remote app it frees up their PC.  It only occurs at this other site, and not at our main office.  The server is located offsite at a datacenter, so it is accessed remotely by both sites over an always on VPN.  Because of these factors I think it could potentially be due to their internet service there, but I don't understand why a remote app would hang up all the local processes on their machine, even if the network were to go down.

Has anyone ever experienced this before, or have a recommendation on how to fix it?  I'm completely lost on this issue and really don't know where to start.

Dear Sir,

Please be informed that Currently we are using Remote Desktop Services under Windows Server 2008 R2 OS with Workgroup. We configured STATIC IP (PUBLIC IP) to connect Remotely to the Server.

We created .rdp file and sent to our clients to access remotely.

Now we plan  to change STATIC IP (PUBLIC IP) in the Server. Is it affect anything in Remote Desktop Service and Window server Configurations. 

We plan to change IP and Recreate .rdp file and will send to our clients. Is it Ok. Please Explain

Thanking You,

Batcha

Hi. This is my first Windows Server 2012 R2 installation, and I have a made a small mess. I'd be very grateful for any assistance in sorting it out.

I had some problems which I eventually tracked down to an incorrectly installed SSL certificate, but during my diagnostics, I foolishly deleted a row from a system table, thinking that if it messed up, I could always reinsert the row. Forgetting of course that I couldn't recreate the ID of the original record because it's an auto-ID field. So I realise I'm an idiot.

I logged in to SQL server using:

\\.\pipe\MICROSOFT##WID\tsql\query

and deleted a row from:

Databases/RDCms/Tables/rds.Target

and from:

Databases/RDCms/Tables/rds.Pool

Predictably enough, the database is no longer coherent and RDWeb is not working properly, and I need to remove RDS and reinstall it.

I thought that removing the RDS server role and adding it again would do it, but the erroneous data is still there.

How can I get rid of it and start from a clean slate?

Thank you in advance for any help.

Stan

Which policy applies?

The RD Session Collection timeout or the group policy?

My Remote desktop servers are in an OU at a top level with all of my other servers, so I have a administrative timeout group policy which is extremely strict to keep our administrators off server consoles. But for the RD farms I would like to have a less strict policy so that users only get disconnected overnight and not if they go out to lunch (as an example)

I know one way to do this is to write individual group policies, but that removes the ease of control by configuring each session collection timeout via the Session Collection.

Hello All,

We are experiencing some issues in our RDS environment. The weird thing is that it happens to only a handful of users.

RDS Environment

Our RDS environment consist of a connection broker and 2 application servers. All of which are running Server 2012 (non R2). All applications are started as a remoteapp from a Windows 7 or 8(.1) update 1)) machine. Users working on a axel thin client do not have this issue.

The Problem(s)

1). While using outlook some users complain that outlook freezes the whole time. Sometimes this just happens once and than it works fine. Other times it happens multiple times a day. They experience it while searching for mail, or browsing trough their mailbox, sometimes even while switching folders. 

During the freeze a balloon pops-up and displays trying to connect to exchange. When i run a ping from the machine with the problem the servers report a ping time of <1ms. When i redo the ping on a server i don't see any difference. We have already tried to repatch the 'problem' users, this had no effect. (Even when we repatched them near another user with no problems.) We tried disabling hardware acceleration, i've read that this sometimes could solve the freezing issue. Although in our case it didn't help at all. 

2). This issue involves the full office suite. Sometimes, some users report that after an period of using ctrl + c/x/v/z etc. they cannot use the ribbon to make selection, and their right mouse button seems to dysfunction.  

Example: Cannot switch signature; cannot color cells; cannot switch printers.

The solution we have found that works for a limited amount of time is logging off their session on the connection broker. 

I haven't able to find what could be casing this issue, and i cannot reproduce it myself. Although i'm using these shortcuts all the time. 

This is all the relevant information i can think of for now. In case i've missed something i will provide the missing information.

Appreciate all the help/thoughts to help me fix (or even narrow down) the issues.

Kind Regards,

Niek

We have 6 Terminal servers and at random on the servers and at random with the users, the roaming profile will not be delete after the users log off.

The folder that remains in the user folder, this folder however is empty, not even hidden folders or files are present: C:\Users\"username"\AppData\LocalLow\Microsoft\CryptnetUrlCache

What we have tried is to run a log off script that has following in it "net stop CryptSvc" but this also does not work. We have had 6 users again today that had the problem. All on different servers.

We can manually delete the users folders without any problems when the problem occurs but this is not something that we would like to do every day.

I see a lot of similar problems but nowhere a real solution for this.

Ah the event viewer:

Windows cannot delete the profile directory C:\Users\"username". This error may be caused by files in this directory being used by another program. 
DETAIL - The directory is not empty.

Services installed:
- File Services
     ° File Server
     ° Services for Network File System
- Remote Desktop Services
     ° Remote Desktop Session Host

All the latest updates have been installed on all the terminal servers. The users are on different servers who have the problems and they aren't always the same users who have the problems sodon't start by asking if everything is configured correctly cause that is the case!

Hello,

I have an RDS Server (Physical machine) to which around 65 users are connected.

I do not have any backup server for the RDS Server.

I want to build a new architecture for my RDS system:

- I want to have 2 RDS servers where the load is split between them (that is around 30users connect to 1server and 35 connect to the second server)

- How to deal with the licensing part between these 2 servers?

- When I installed an apps on one of the server, the apps should be automatically replicated on the second server.

- I want that at any time swap users from one server to the other server.

A solution will be much appreciated.

Hi Everyone,

I have a question related to RDweb service.

I have successfully installed RD web role on windows server 2012 R2.

All went ok. I also installed a valid 3^rd party certificate.

I can connect from outside to the server using any devices: Ipad’s, mobiles and laptops.

I can also connect from inside to the server without any issue

The problem is that: Any Computer/Laptop that is joined on the domain cannot connect through RDWEB from outside the company. (meaning that the computer is connected via a different network than our corporate local area network.

This is very frustrating because the error I get is very vague

The error I get is:

Your computer cannot connect to the remote computer because an error occurred on the remote computer that you want to connect to. Please contact your network administrator for assistance.

What it can be the issue?

Thank you in advance,

M!

Hi Everyone,

I have a question related to RDweb service.

I have successfully installed RD web role on windows server 2012 R2.

All went ok. I also installed a valid third party certificate.

I can connect from outside to the server and run applications using any devices: Ipad’s, mobiles and laptops.

The problem is that: Any Computer/Laptop that is joined on the domain can connect to RDWEB from outside the company BUT CAN'T RUN ANY APPLICATIONS. The RD session is taking long time it failes. Note that from inside the network is working.

What it can be?

Thank you in advance,

Criss

Hello all, 

I have a user account (User1) trying to RDP from a Windows 7 Pro PC to a new Windows Server 2012 Server.  User1 is restricted in the AD within their AD Properties > Account Tab > 'Log on to...' button to only log onto 3 servers.  When the user attempts to log onto the 2102 server, we get this error:



User1 IS able to log onto two other Windows 2008 R2 servers.  All 3 servers are in the same OU.  Other users (without the 'Log on to...' restriction) are able to RDP and log onto the 2012 Server.  When we remove the 'Log on to...' restriction and change it to 'All Computers' for User1, it can login to the server fine.  

All user accounts mentioned here are set as local administrators on all servers mentioned here.

The Answer from http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverTS/thread/64f18b65-7fc6-4035-8dcb-7c09bc243469/ does work here.  When I add the 2012 Server and Windows 7 computer User1 is loging in from to 'Log on to...' User1 CAN log into the 2012 server.

Is there some new bit of GPO I need to add to my 2008 R2 AD Domain to allow this for our new 2012 Server? Is there something else within 2012 I need to set for this?

Thanks to all who try to help.  Extra Special Thanks to the special people that provide the actual answer to help me resolve this!

This topic has been raised previously but no viable fix or workaround has been provided.

If use Remote Desktop to connect to a machine that has a Windows CE mobile device connected via USB, I am unable to use WMDC to connect to the device.

If a user logs into the target machine directly, the device connects through WMDC as expected.  This issue appears SOLELY to manifest when connecting via Remote Desktop.

As this is a critical way of connecting to devices in our stores, I need a way to connect.  I have found that if I use the same login that the user in front of the machine uses after he connects, I can boot his profile and the device remains connected to WMDC but from a security perspective, that is not a viable option.

Has ANYONE found a way around this?

I have set up a test Server 2012 RDS collection (Single Server for now) and implemented User Profile disks.

I have two problems.

First: My generic test user can connect and does successfully use the user profile disk as expected. However, atlogoff, the system event log contains these errors:

The error (NTFS 137) is: The default transaction resource manager on volume C:\Users\ts3.test encountered a non-retryable error and could not start.  The data contains the error code.

The warning (NTFS 50) that concerns me is:

It appears that the user profile disk is being "disabled" or "disconnected" before the profile data is completely written at logoff. What can I do to troubleshoot this?

Second:

Update: A post from Mike Connor on the following page: -LINK- solved the problem described below. 

My administrative user always logs on now with a temporary profile. At the beginning, the UPD was working and mounting. That stopped working. In attempting to troubleshoot, I logged the admin user off and deleted the UPD disk file from the share. I remember it working again after generating a new UPD disk file in the share. Soon, it quit working again. I deleted the UPD disk file again from the share and ever since, it has never regenerated a new UPD andalways logs on with a temporary profile.

Hi all I am trying to do is allow more than 2 users to be able to connect via rdp.

I understand that RDS needs to be installed on the Windows 2012 server.

My questions which RDS roles need to be installed after that, Gateway, brooker, session host?

Which role should i pick that will simply allow more than 2 user rdp