Hi

I have a new customer. he has given the RD Web access authorization to work by accessing some resources like calculator, putty, remote desktop etc. My problem is- Everything is accessible from any workgroup machine through my org.. network or open Internet too but  from my domain machine this is not accessible by using same network( i reach till resources using by credential but not entering in resources). It is indicate there is any domain restrictions policy by customer or my domain policies. I have already contacted to my Domain handler to finding this issue in my domain but he cudn't find any.

Please give me your valuable ideas on this cause. your Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Yash

Has anyone seen anything like this?

After many, many, hours of wading through and eliminating potential variables the issue has been narrowed down to being present with a Windows 8.1 VM and not on Windows 7 VM.

The problem is with glitchy display issues (Random Pixellation, Fuzzy Screen areas, Entire Screen filled with random shapes/colors etc.).  

This is a Server 2012 R2 environment it is running Hyper-V Remote Desktop Virtualization Host.

1. An Nvidia Quadro K2200 adapter has been enabled for RemoteFX and passed through.
2. Also have tried Nvidia Grid K2 adapter. Both adapters use same driver set and multiple driver versions have been tested.
3. Two Generation 1 VM's have been created.  One for WIndows 8.1, One for Windows 7.  All updates installed.
4. Each VM uses the same set of Hyper-V resources, Virtual Switch etc.  (The settings for each VM are the same).
5. With RemoteFX disabled on each VM the issue is not present on either VM.
6. With RemoteFX enabled on each VM the issue is present on the Windows 8.1 VM and not the Windows 7 VM.
7. There is no difference if only one VM at a time is enabled and running.  (Not GPU load related)

Talmage D. Holt

Hi,

I have TS farm and i applied folder redirectiction and roaming profiles to users login to RDH.

I installed couple of programs and placed shortcuts in Public\desktop folder for all the users to be able to see them.

There are some users located in an OU that needs only to see one shortcut and not the rest so what i thought about is a login script for those users to delete the unwanted shortcuts from their desktop and keep only the one that is needed.

i read the below link and tried to run del %userprofile%\desktop\Icon.lnk but i recieved an error the that the file cannot be found and i guess this is correct since the shortcut location is c:\users\public\desktop\shurtcut.lnk

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/a9dd98a2-705e-4e70-969c-278c1f780232/rds-server-2008-remove-shortcut?forum=winserverTS

i tried to use the folderredirection desktop but i recieved the same error..

any thought how can i perform this?

Then we clicking "update now" system asking  to enter credentials. After the entering domain username and password everything is updating. After this procedure updating works fine 2-4 weeks and then start failing again. Our users required to change password every 3 months. That means password changing can't be the reason of this error.

Maybe it can be related with server rebooting? All RDS farm machines reboots once per month during the server patching

Thanks for help in advance.

Hi everyone.

I'm trying to send some command line arguments to application that published at RemoteApp server. I found the only way to do that:

mstsc.exe /remotecmdline:"my parameters" "c:\program files\RemotePackages\myapp.rdp"

Of course, application was published with "allow any command-line arguments" option.

It works fine when file myapp.rdp is NOT signed by server. But when I sign it, it stops accepting any arguments except null.

By investigating this issue I found that signscope line in myapp.rdp file contains "RemoteApplicationCmdLine":

signscope:s:Full Address,Alternate Full Address,Server Port,GatewayHostname,GatewayUsageMethod,GatewayProfileUsageMethod,GatewayCredentialsSource,PromptCredentialOnce,Alternate Shell,RemoteApplicationProgram,RemoteApplicationMode,RemoteApplicationName,RemoteApplicationCmdLine,Authentication Level,RedirectDrives,RedirectPrinters,RedirectCOMPorts,RedirectSmartCards,RedirectPOSDevices,RedirectClipboard,DevicesToRedirect,DrivesToRedirect

So, signature check fails due to my custom command line argument. And I have a reasonable question - how could I change signing scope? Can I exclude RemoteApplicationCmdLine parameter ftom it?

Hi@all,

we are experiencing the following problem in described scenario:

RDS Session Host servers (2008 R2) and RDS License Server in Domain / Forest B,  User accounts in Domain / Forest A.

Domain B trusts domain A and all users of domain A log in with their domain A accounts to the RDS Session Host servers in domain B.

We have enough per-user RDS CALs installed for the users connecting to the RDS Session Host servers but of course since we do not have a two-way trust set up, the CALs are not being assigned.

These are the two error messages in the System event log:

"Error SRC:TermService ID:1061 MSG:Remote Desktop Session Host server was unable to retrieve users Licensing information from AD. Error 0x8007052e"

"Warning SRC:TermServLicensing ID:4107 MSG:The Remote Desktop license server failed to query Active Directory Domain Services for user information. Win32 error code: 0x8007052e"

Will the users still be able to open a session on the RDS Session Host servers if the RDS grace period expires? Please notice that we aren't allowed to implement a two way trust between the two Domains.

Kind regards
Peter

Hi,

I am testing this simple C++ application below on Windows 2012 R2 and WTSVirtualChannelOpen fails with error code "ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED". The same application runs fine on Windows Server 2008.

I have tried with WTSVirtualChannelOpenEx but I got the same error code.

Can anyone help me shed some light on this issue? That would be much appreciated :-)

Thank you.

#include <conio.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <Wtsapi32.h>
#include <iostream>

#define TERMINAL_SERVICES_VC_NAME "TEST"

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
	std::cout << "<< Virtual Channel App >>" << std::endl;
	HANDLE hVirtualChannel = WTSVirtualChannelOpen(WTS_CURRENT_SERVER_HANDLE, WTS_CURRENT_SESSION, TERMINAL_SERVICES_VC_NAME);

	if(hVirtualChannel)
		std::cout << "WTSVirtualChannelOpen successful" << std::endl;
	else
		std::cerr << "WTSVirtualChannelOpen fails with error code: " << GetLastError() << std::endl;

	std::cout << "Press Enter to quit..." << std::endl;
	_getch();

	if(WTSVirtualChannelClose(hVirtualChannel))
		std::cout << "TSVirtualChannelClose successful" << std::endl;
	else
		std::cerr << "TSVirtualChannelClose fails with error code: " << GetLastError() << std::endl;
	return 0;
}

Hi,

I have recently installed windows server 2012 and configure the Remore Desktop Session host VDI role on it...Now I have create one windows 8.1 and install Acrobat and office 2010 on it and now I am using it as a Master Image for VDI

My Question is if i want to install some more software later on after one week , and If I install it in master image then will it update automatically inside all VDI or is there any seprate process to install that on VDI..

Thanks,

HI ,

I have windows 2012 R2 Foundation which is domain controller . I have to install RDS on it. But RDSB failed to install. I know that you cannot install RDS on server 2012  with AD. Microsoft released fix for it but it seems that it is not working on Server 2012 R2.

Is there any solution for this problem?

thanks,

Vanja

Hi. We need to allow users to save their RDP credentials on the clients when connecting to the RDS environment.

This works fine when they check the "Allow me to save credentials checkbox" and then "Remember my credentials" checkbox in the username/password dialog.

However we have a 2012 R2 RDS deployment with two RDSH hosts connecting through the RDCB server. Therefore we're specifying the "workspace id:s: <rds_session_collection_name>" in the RDP file. From my testing, whenever the RDP file contains the workspace id line, the "Remember my credentials" checkbox is missing from the user/pass dialog when connecting to the RDS environment and therefore the password is not saved in the user's credential manager.

How can we fix this problem?

Hello.

I manage a certain Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard server. This server has now the need to become a Remote Desktop server, so I have now installed the roles Remote Desktop Licensing and Remote Desktop Sessions Host.

This server doesn't have a internet connection, so I had to use the "Web Browser" connection method to activate the licensing server. It activated well with the key provided at activate.microsoft.com. I have now attempted to install the purchased licenses using the same method. I generated the licensing key correctly also at activate.microsoft.com using my license details, but when I try to install the licences on the server, it seems to be rejecting the licensing key. I get the error:

"The RD Licensing Manager was not able to install the client license key pack. Ensure that the correct information is entered, and then retry this operation."

What could be wrong? I've followed the steps correctly and the licence won't work. Been searching online but couldn't find any clue. Maybe I inserted some info wrong about my license when I was generating the licencing key? But I doubt it because in this case the site should return an error, correct? But if this is the case, how can I scrap this licencing key and generate a new one? Or can I simply start generating many keys, choosing different options until one of them works?

Other thing is that my licence program is "Enterprise Agreement", but the Install Licenses Wizard only shows "License Pack (Retail Purchase)". Been searching online for this case but all the install licences guidelines say just to click"next" so I'm not sure if there's a problem here. Anyway there is no way to change this licence program type on the RD Licensing Manager.

Please help. Thank you.

Environment facts:
 1. Windows 2012 R2 RDS server.
 2. 5-20 concurrent users.
 3. Users run several applications, including MS Office 2013, that are installed directly on the RDS server. In addition, they have a set of several front-end Delphi-based applications managing data on a back-end DB2 server (separate from the RDS server). The EXEs for these are housed on a separate server and so are accessed via a drive letter mapped via Windows 2012 AD login script. This is the behaviour intended for them by the third-party developers, not a workaround. (My role is that, although I did not write the Delphi apps or design the DB2 back-end, nor am I employed by the company that did, I provide targeted support for the business components dealing with the DB2 environment, including these applications and, where required, advise the IT department on issues related to the DB2 server and the related applications).
 4. All applications run on the RDS server are the same ones run on about 50 PCs by users physically located on the LAN at the corporate site that hosts the RDS server. The local users access the DB2-related EXEs the same way as the RDS-based users: via the same drive ltter mapped to their network location.

Herein is the problem: some RDS users frequently, although not predictably enough to duplicate the problem at will, receive External Exception C0000006 errors, but only for the DB2-related applications. Two things helped me target my research:

 1. These errors do not occur for the local users running the applications on their PCs,
 2. Nor do they occur when testing with a copy of the DB2-related EXEs copied onto the RDS server.

My research thus far reveals that this error is apparently related to (or at least, displaying the same symptom as) a long-standing issue going back to Windows 2000, where there was a hotfix for the issue, wherein one or both of two things happens:

 1. The single IP connection between the terminal server and the server hosting the EXEs gets confused about which RDS session requested the EXE/DLL, so the client session does not get the entire file loaded into memory.
 2. Due to host server or network latency, the EXE or related DLL is not fully loaded into memory.

Whichever it is, it results in a page fault, ending with the C0000006 External Exception error. Per several online posts, it seems that it may be Delphi-related, although the suggestions there did nothing to diagnose the underlying cause and simply directed developers to provide RDS-local implementations. I am not the Delphi developer, so I have no control over the applications themselves, and my interest here is not in trying to debug the applications but to pinpoint what, exactly is happening on the terminal server when this happens. And I am already using a very limited local deployment to keep users running temporarily, but for a number of reasons, that is not a good option. So my focus here is attempting to understand in more depth the underlying issue with the goal of solving it at it source, not by workarounds that will cause other problems in our environment.

There are four more factors, although I cannot tell for certain the relative importance of each:

 1. It was all working on our old Windows 2003 terminal server before we moved everyone over to Windows 2012 R2 RDS server.
 2. The RDS server is running as a Hyper-V VM on a Windows 2012 R2 server with the bandwidth management disable for the VM.
 3. The physical network adapter is a Broadcom BCM5709C card with VMQ (Virtual Machine Queues) enabled. Although there have been known poor-network-performance issues with some Broadcom cards when VMQ is enabled, this particular card is not on the list of problematic cards. See this link:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2902166
 4. This is the one currently very much in focus for me: after extensive testing with a couple of the users that revealed everything above, the IT department revealed to me in passing that that this is happening only for the five or six users in the one remote office where they have Apple workstations--and therefore the Mac version of the RDP client. That has to be very significant (and would have been nice to know at the outset), but I cannot figure out how it is related.

We are connecting to a hosted application which we are experiencing continuous disconnects.  We have verified through continuous network monitoring on both ends that the network is not experiencing any significant outages or latency which would cause the disconnects.  We have asked the vendor for the configuration of the hosted solution information provided is that. 

Application is hosted on a Virtual server and hosted on both Server 2012 R2.  running Terminal Services.  My background is a citrix admin.  But it is my understanding that there could be a front end software loadbalancer that has configurations of timeouts.

Can anyone provide me some areas to look to try to pin point this needle in a haystack?

Apologies for maybe not getting all the terminology right, we're fairly new to RDS/Hyper-V from VMWare.

For various business reasons, we need to run Windows 8.1 VMs with updates disabled - we do update the OS regularly, just on our own schedule.  In one, and so far only one of our WS2012/Hyper-V/RSD environments we've discovered that every time we add a Windows 8 VM to any collection on the RDS server, the RDS server first 'scans' the VM to determine what Windows updates are missing from the guest OS, then schedules a task in the RDS database on the server that actually runs Windows update on the VM/guest OS.

We've had no luck so far figuring out why this happens in only one environment (we have multiple development and test environments), why this happens at all (um, we turned off Windows updates, why did RDS decide to apply them anyway?), and lastly and most importantly, how we can make sure this feature is turned off at our customer sites (because this really breaks our and our customers environments) ?

Any hints or help would be appreciated.

What technical details we know:

RDV Windows Update Plugin - this is the RSD plugin that does the guest OS scanning and schedules the update-the-guest-OS tasks

There are also powershell commands that can list and remove the update tasks:

Get-RDPersonalVirtualDesktopPatchSchedule, Remove-RDPersonalVirtualDesktopPatchSchedule

Suffice to say the MSDN documentation for these is sparse.

Obviously we can schedule our own task to run the Remove... powershell command every so often to blow away the scheduled tasks, but that is not an optimal solution to have to do that on every server at every customer site.  We really want to make sure that this feature is disabled on the server.

Thanks,

-- 

Clark

Hi guys,

On a random base (daily, weekly) we're experiencing major log-in problems on our Windows Server 2012 R2 Remote Desktop Services farm. The VM's are hosted on Hyper-V 2008 hosts and we're not using Citrix techniques etc.

Users are reporting that they cannot log-in, the log-in sessions hangs with a blank screen when loading their user profile (e.g. Please Wait For The User Profile Service).

In the System event log of the server on which the user is logging on the following errors are shown:

Source:        Service Control Manager 
Date:          23-12-2014 7:28:01
Event ID:      7011 
Task Category: None 
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A 
Description: 

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the UmRdpService service.

…and after 30 (or sometimes 60) seconds, the same error only another service (in random order):

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the UmRdpService service.

…and after exactly 30 seconds, the same error only another service:

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the UxmSms service.

etcetera, with the following errors:

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the Netman service.

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the AudioEndPointBuilder service.

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the WPDBusEnum service.

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the NlaSvc service.

The Portable Device Enumerator Service service failed to start due to the following error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the TrkWks service.

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the UmRdpService service.

These errors are logged continuously.

An administrator cannot solve this since he isn't able to login in as well (console or remotely), only a hard reset of the VM is possible to use the affected server again.

I took different steps to solve this problem without any success, like:

- Installing the latest Windows updates
- Removed unnecessary printer drivers, print monitors and print processors (no local printers/drivers are installed, only Remote Desktop Easy Printer driver is used)
- Searched different forum posts, but found only hotfixes for Windows Server 2008 R2.

Can someone please help me with this annoying problem?

Many thanks!!

EDIT:
Of course is increasing the time-out not really an option here... http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/13765.event-id-7011-service-timeout.aspx

Server #1: Windows Server 2012 Standard. This is the DC. In user's profiles, we have these three settings:

 End a disconnected session 1 hour
 Idle session limit   3 hours
 When a session limit is reached... -> Disconnect from session

Note that this MUST be at the user level, since my admin user account, unlike end user accounts, has a need to remain logged onto a couple of our RDS servers 24/7 to run local applications that cannot be run as services.

Server #2: Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard. This is the RDS server.

Users log onto local machines (mostly Windows 7 Pro), then use RDS on Server #2 (remotely, across a VPN) to run certain applications.

The AD settings on Server #1 should ensure that each user's RDS session to Server #2 is eventually disconnected, then logged off, when users:

1)Leave for the day without logging off their local machines,
2)Log off their local machines without first logging off the RDS server, or
3)Disconnect from the RDS server instead of logging off.

This helps with administration. If timed-out or disconnected sessions are logged off automatically, then when I log on at midnight to troubleshoot a problem or do a reboot, I do not have to infer whether a users is actually still working; only truly active or recently-disconnected sessions should appear in my RDS sessions.

But this is not happening, or at least not consistently. I often find users that have been connected for several days or sessions that have been disconnected for several hours. I have already checked to ensure that these users' AD settings are those above.

Is there a GPO that I also need to edit on the RDS server to make it enforce my AD settings?

Hi,

We faced with the problem: when administrator disconnects from his shadow session, language bar in user's session disappears (hot keys stop working too).

Hardware/Software:
1. Clients: Win8.1 (pc), WinCE (thinclient)
2. Servers: Win2012R2 (all hotfixes have been installed)
3. Roles: RDS
4. Administrators' pc: Win8.1 (pc)

Steps to reproduce:
1. Users open their sessions. Language switching works fine, language bar is on its place.
2. Administrator connects to active session with command: mstsc /v:%HOSTNAME% /shadow:%SESSIONID% /control /noconsentprompt
3. User's issue resolved. Administrator closes his shadow window and language bar disappears in the user's session (hot keys also stop working). User has to logoff and then logon again.

I found that the Remote Assistant has the same issue too (msra /offerRA %USERPCNAME% -> Help -> Disconnect -> lang issue).

May be someone faced with the same issue too?
Thank you for your help.

Hi,

We use an edi software installed on a Server 2012.

When we use this software accessing the server by Remote Desktop, everything works normal.

When we use the same software accessing the server by web access, (...softname/RDWeb/Feed/webfeed.aspx) where was published this soft application, we lost some windows after different actions.

For example if I do a modification for a value in one specific window, after I click save, that window disappear but can appear again only if I click again anywhere on my desktop.

In other words that window lost the focus and probably is still open under another window. Clicking again anywhere, will reactivate it and that window appear again.

Can you please help me to find a solution to this problem?

Thank You!