RDP MaxBandwidth key

October 30, 2014, 10:06 am

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Hello

We use some sort of dictation software ,users are logged into the terminal server at the remote sites when they listen audio and when it is  choppy and jittery we would edit /alter the MaxBandwidth value for your RDP connection by changing this registry key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32\Terminal Server\RDP MaxBandwidth: 0x000056b9 (22201)

This was working well in 2003 but since moved to  2008 R2 we were not able to find mentioned registry setting and to alter audio quality.

Does anybody know if there is similar key in W2K8 R2 registry?

We already tried with audioqualitymode entries but this did not give desirable results as mentioned registry settings 

Thank you 

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Remote Desktop Session Host USB Redirection with Windows 8.1

October 31, 2014, 2:57 am

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Hello all,

I've currently setup this environment (both OS/Client are fully up to date as of today). I am using one server as the Gateway, Web Access, Connection Broker and RD Session Host with one collection.

I am trying to get USB redirection setup to work properly. Some devices work (pen drives/iPhone etc), but other devices (we have a smart card reader we are testing that works natively on my Windows 8 machine) that doesn't appear.

I see conflicting information wherever I go on the internet on how to get this working. Some places suggest modifying the registry on the client machine, other places suggest you need to add a customrdpproperty to the collection.

What is the proper way to get this working on 2012 R2 with Windows 8.1?

is UDP a real advantage in RD services?

October 31, 2014, 7:42 am

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Hi,

I'm wondering if enabling UDP is a significant improvement for end-users experience as I hesitate to enable it in my RDS deployment, since it will require a re-design of my gateways in my DMZ.

Anyone would like to share their experiences?

Thanks

Strange values for Idle and Disconnect Time in Server Manager - Session Collection

October 21, 2014, 5:40 am

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Hello,

I see strange behaviour for Idle Time and Disconnect Time in Server Manager Session Collections.
When a user connects to a Session Collection then there is no value for Disconnect Time and Idle Time. Thats ok.

But when users do nothing Idle Time doesn't starts to count.

When users disconnects it shows the following:

But when a user reconnects then Ide Time continues to count, even if the user starts to work:

I have three Session Collections and in every Collection it's the same strange behaviour when users reconnects.
Two of these Session Collections consits of two servers each and one Session Collection is a single server only.
One Server for Connection Broker, RDGW and RD Web Access. All servers are Windows Server 2012 R2 VMs in Hyper-V.

Any idea?
Regards,
Andreas

Desktop Remote over internet login&listener port issue

October 21, 2014, 12:23 pm

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Hi,

I try to do standard Desktop Remote Connection over internet with 3389 port. Both computers on Windows 8.

Everything works fine until the login. 

I spent some time on the internet to check for possible problems: the only thing I didn't manage to do is make the computer that accesses the other computer to have the port 3389 show in the list of listening ports. The computer that needs to be accessed remotely has the port listed as listening port. I did try the standard procedure but when I hit "netstat -a" the port is not there.

Any advise?

On Remote Desktop over internet the credentials are not recognized. Although I did add the users to be able to connect remotely.

I also tried VPN with 1723 port. It does recognize the login but then it gives 720 error stating that the network settings need to be changed.

The server computer runs Windows 8 Pro and the client computer runs Windows 8 Home. Could this be a problem?

Also the server is on static IP and the client is on dynamic IP. Is this an issue?

Active Window is Hidden Behind other windows

October 16, 2014, 12:50 pm

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I'm running IE 10. When I log into my domain there are some AD policies in place for IE 10. The intranet web address is listed in trusted intranet site in our AD GPO. The server is w2k8 r2. It is a RDS server for Xenapp 6.5. When I open the application (Crystal Reports) in IE 10 and select print. The application calls for the Crystal Report Print Control downloaded add on module for IE 10 which opens the MS Windows Print Setup Window. However, the window opens behind IE so you cannot see it unless you click IE  in the taskbar. When I log on locally to the w2k8 r2 server which does has the local Group policy disabled this does not occur.  

Any help on where to start would be appreciated. I tried the registry change and that didn't work. FYI I've noticed this with other published apps as well.

"Use RD Gateway credentials for remote computers" option causing RDP to freeze

October 24, 2014, 7:33 am

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Hello,


I have a setup with one GW/SH/WA/CB  on server 1 , LS/SH on server2 and SH on server3

I have setup most things but one remains a mystery: When I enable "Use RD Gateway credentials for remote computers" option, I cannot launch the apps from the portal, after checking the certs, I get an error saying

"Couldn't open this program or file. Either there was a problem with <program name> or the file you're trying to open couldn't be established. "

When I disable that option (Use RD GW cred), this error goes away but I need to enter a password each time I launch an application, which is not ideal.

Right now, I either need to find a way to get rid of password prompt or find a way around the error I mentioned above when enabling the option.

Thanks!

Remote Desktop Services has taken too long to load the user configuration from server Event ID 20499

October 18, 2013, 10:41 pm

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I keep getting Event ID 20499 "Remote Desktop Services has taken too long to load the user configuration from server \\SERVERNAME for user USERNAME" in our event logs for multiple servers that are running 2012 R2

I noticed that when this happens the user often is missing items that get applied via group policies such as desktop wallpapers and mapped drives.  

I am also using the Microsoft Remote Desktop for Mac that was release yesterday on another Mac computer and for certain users it won't launch the redirected folder that I specified when I get this Event ID 20499

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Windows 7 w/ 8.1 RDP client error with 2012 RD Gateway

November 3, 2014, 5:30 am

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I've deployed a new RDS server w/ RD Gateway based on Windows Server 2012. Everything seems to be in working order on the server and its various roles. I've been testing internal and external access to the RD Gateway from both Windows 7 & Windows 8 computers using various web browsers. (frankly my whole reason for the new deployment)

Windows 8 computers seem to be working fine in IE, FireFox and Chrome although I will get prompted for credentials a 2nd time in Chrome and/or Firefox.

On my Windows 7 x64 PC I keep getting the following error when I launch the desktop from the portal:

Remote Desktop can't connect to the remote computer for one of these reasons:

1) Remote Access to the server is not enabled

2) The remote computer is turned off

3) The remote computer is not available on the network

Make sure the remote computer is turned on and connected to the network, and that remote access is enabled.

Yesterday before I added the server to the RAS & IAS Servers I was logging Event ID 201 in the Terminal-Services Gateway log however those errors have subsided with the group membership change.

What have I missed here?

Thank you for any guidance on this!

RD Gateway and a challenge/response SMS OTP

October 30, 2014, 8:56 pm

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I'm trying to publish a Windows 2012r2 RDweb and RD gateway server in such a way that in order to use the rd gateway you need to provide your normal AD credentials followed by a prompt for a one-time-password that gets sent to the user by SMS

according to this article:

https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Remote-Desktop-Gateway-517d6273/view/Reviews

this should be possible using a Pluggable Authentication Module on the gateway server - does anyone know of a product that uses these APIs? or some other method to achieve it?

Note that I can put it behind a (sadly deprecated) TMG server (or a citrix netscaler) and do the sms auth there by radius on the https://server/rdweb interface, but as it is handed off to the mstsc.exe client which tries to tunnel through https://server/rdweb interface, it needs to re-auth, so fails (the above article suggests the cookie can be transferred into the *.rdp file, but it doesn't appear to happen)

the MS Azure MFA service (and a few other 'cloud' auth products I've seen) is a radius server that expects a response to the SMS, via SMS - this is not the solution we're aiming for

Similarly, installing a 3rd party GINA on every host accessible via the gateway is also not an acceptable solution.

logically, the functionality should live at the gateway or the reverse proxy, but I cant find a way of doing it in the reverse proxy, and I cant find a product that uses the API MS provide for it - can someone steer me in the right direction?

 

Local resource usages.

November 6, 2014, 6:03 am

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Dear forum,

Hopefully you could help me solve a quite strange situation. I run and support a Windows Server 2008R2 Terminal Server with a mix of Fat and Thin clients. Lately i have noticed a huge performance difference between the Fat and Thin clients though both work on the Terminal server.

Could it be that the hardware on a Thin or even Fat client determines the performance on a Terminal Server. If so is it possible to block all local resource request regarding CPU or RAM so all the action will be performed on the server instead of on the Thin/Fat client and with it having the same performance across the Thin and Fat clients.

Thanks in advance,

Dwayne Jurcka

Tracking Logins, and Logouts

October 29, 2014, 4:58 pm

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I am looking for a way to track logins and outs on our RDP servers. The security log will show the Logins for sure, but are hard to find. I can even have an app record something in the background on login via app or scheduled app etc. The problem comes with logoff. There does not seem to be a clean way if the user never actually logs out of the machine i.e. is disconnected and terminated because of session inactivity. Anyone know a way to trap these?

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RDP clients login causes delay on server

November 6, 2014, 7:33 am

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Hi

We have a Windows 2008 R2 server that is DC and TS server for remote clients. When each user logs into server via RDP, server freezes (for all logged on users and admin) for about 10-15 second, also CPU is set to 100%. This happens every time when user logs in. We have found that if we disable all mappings (printers, local drivers etc) on users RDP there is no delay, server doesnt freeze. So it has to be something with this, but we need to set users to map printers and clipboard into TS server.

We have applied all patches, also there is no other impact on server, everything is working fine, except this freeze when users RDP into server.

Any ideas what is causing this and how can we solve this ?

Thank you in advance

Mike

Windows 2012R2 RemoteApp & "Shell Working Directory"

November 7, 2014, 12:27 pm

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Hope somebody can help. One of our customers is using a 2008R2 TS/RDP environment and published a specific Accounting application which is used by several remote offices. This (Accounting) depends heavily on the "shell working directory" or "Start In".

We are in the proces of migrating this application to a 2012R2 environment and the application has to be published as a RemoteApp. Within the GUI or New-RDRemoteApp there is no option to specify the "shell working directory".

I have already tried to make a .CMD file, publish this as a remoteapp but this does not function also (Application errors).

Is there any way to set the "shell working directory' and publish it as a remoteapp?

Best regards,

Jacob

Dead session with dead processes

November 10, 2014, 6:38 am

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Hi Technet guys

we have sometimes users which cannot be logged off or the processes be killed. The users are connected to the Windows Terminal Server (W2K8R2) latest patches installed. They connecting with Citrix XenApp 6.5 to the Windows Terminal Server. We did find out that one user is switching between networks and one of the networks is behind a proxy. So when the user switches the network and tries to connect to his session again. His session like dead. It's not possible with Administrator rights to logoff this user or kill his open processes.

The only way to get rid of this problem is to reboot the server. But this is not a good solution

Does anyone of you have expirienced similiar issue, may even just with RDP?

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Remote Fx Usb redirection not working on physical machine

November 7, 2014, 5:36 am

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Hello All,

Remote Fx Usb redirection not working on physical machine for us for webcam & scanner.

We not use VM, We want to use physical machine.

We try with windows server 2008 server and windows 7 as client but not working.

I f we took windows server 2012 and windows 8 server/client.

will physical machine will do usb redirection.

Please reply me ASAP, it's needy hardly.

Thanks in advance

Virtual Pool Sysprep

November 4, 2014, 9:20 am

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Hi 

I have implemented VDI and only session collection remote app are working but not able to sysprep the VM and use it

I have following architect

1. win 2012 R2 DC 64 bit  (RDVH - services is installed)

2. win 2012 R2 DC 64 bit on Hyper-V (RDCB / RDWA / RDSC - services are installed)

3. i have installed / configured win7 SP1  & win 8 prof 64 bit in Hyper-V joined to domain with only OS HDD

Till 3rd point i am successfully. i am also able to successfully run sysprep on both the VM and both shutdown

When i try to rerun again to create the VM it gives the error" The VMHostAgent service timed out while waiting for the newly provisioned virtual desktop to start"

Please help me 

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Pooled VDI can't create virtual machine from template Vm

June 15, 2013, 7:20 am

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Hi 

1- I create new VM and install windows 8 on it.

2-I use sysprep command in this VM and Shutdown.

3 I create VDI Pool and give the template vm to it (Windows 8).

but there is problem ?

"The VMHostAgent service timed out while waiting for the newly provisioned virtual desktop to start"

i Search for answer find that i must delete setupcomplete.cmd , but i dont find it ,

Can any body help me ?

thanks. 

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session directory active

November 6, 2014, 1:23 pm

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Hello

I have problem to add session host server to a collection by Windows 2012 R2 environment. I can't find any GPO entry for that error. I have a subdomain conzept, if I do add the session host on the Gateway server which is located on ths top level domain, then I can add a session host server, but not when I do it on a subdomain. I can find some blog entry but all refer to Windows 2003.

Any input would be gratful

André

Here some more infos:

Error: The Property session directory active is configured by using Group Policy settings. Use the Group Policy Management Console to configure this property.

RDS gateway with reverse proxy and OSX RD client

November 10, 2014, 9:59 am

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Hi all,

We are building a new RDS 2012 R2 environment with a RDS gateway farm in the internal lan. I have published the HTTPS URL to internet with 2012 R2 Web application proxy. This works like a charm on Windows client and with IOS only the RD Client on my Macbook is behaving strange. When i open a remote resources it closed within a second and when i try to login on a server while using the gateway a get a grey screen and i have to shut down the RD client. When i place the gateway in the DMZ it works perfect on OSX but i like to use it with reverse proxy to save external adreses.

Anybody encountered the same problem yet?