RDP screen goes black after successful remote login
I have a Windows 2008 Server that I have been connecting to once a month remotely to apply OS updates. Often, I reboot that server and it uses auto-logon to login and run an application. Today, I...
View ArticlePrinters of other users visible and show up multiple times under the control...
Hello,I currently have a very interesting problem:Some (not all) printers show up multiple times on every user session on the specific terminal server. This behavior show up on both of the 2 servers....
View ArticleBSOD on RDS Session Host with TSFairShare.sys
We ran into a problem with a RDS Session Host running Server 2012R2. The Session Host is running as a VM on a Server2012 R2 Host.A BSOD was shown on the Session Host, but we haven't any idea why the...
View ArticleProblem managing Remote Desktop Licensing with PowerShell on 2012 R2
Hello,I am trying to follow these instructions for managing Remote Desktop Licensing with PowerShell on a 2012 R2 server, but when I try to switch to the RDS drive (cd RDS:\) on the server with RD...
View ArticleUPD Not Working
RDS 2012 R2 using a gateway. On the collection->edit properties->user profile disk is checked and the servers in the collection has full control on the UPD share and the user is a member of the...
View ArticleRemoteApp popup window invisible
Can anyone guide me on what to do. We have a server 2012 R2 RDS setup with some remoteapp programs. We have a program that has windows popup however these popups are invisible. They are actually there...
View ArticleSlow Login Times RemoteApp
Shiny new install of RDS 2012 R2 VM's with 2 session hosts and a gateway (also VM's). When any user opens a remoteapp, there is about a 30 second delay before you are presented with the app. During the...
View ArticleLocal Service system profile grown to extremely large size
Was doing some routine maintenance on my RDSH farm and noticed that one server has much less free space than the others. I looked at which folders were the culprit and found this...
View ArticleIIS ARR interferes with TSG?
RDP works fine with IIS set to auth (direct to https://my-domain/ requires login auth), but it seems when I try to set up a Reverse Proxy using IIS, URL Rewrite and ARR ( having https://my-domain/ show...
View ArticleRemote Desktop Reports (who logged in and logged out on the server for last...
hi,i am looking for the solution for the remote desktop users on a particular server, how many users logged in, logged out, with time of logging in and logging out.actually i want to make a report of...
View ArticleRDS CALs not being issued - always zero
Hello Everyone,I recently setup a Windows Server 2012 R2 as a RDP host for 5 clients.This server is joined to a domain and offers RDP session for clients. 5 RDS user CALs have been installed.RD-License...
View ArticleUser profile disk (vhdx) file size problem
Hi everybody,I've been redirected to this forum from a general one. I understand, it's not wise to create duplicate threads, but I don't see an alternative. In this thread, I am trying to figure out,...
View ArticleWin2k8R2 svchost.exe suddenly starts to use all memory
Dear allI have a Windows 2008 R2 SP1 + current Patchlevel Remote Desktop Host. Installed are a lot of applications, SCCM 2012 Client, Kasperksky AntiVirus Enterprise Edition.Yesterday i had the problem...
View ArticleIncorrect printer mapping on Win2012R2 with GPO
Introduction and QuestionAn application uses the Windows API call “enumprinters” to collect all shared printers within a user session on a terminal server. Sometimes some, or all, of the printers are...
View ArticleUnable to disconnect session 0
Hello, In our company environment we have RDS farm server based on Win 2012. Everything works fine, but time to time we are not able to log off disconnected users from remote session. Error message...
View ArticleRDS Farm setting applied through GPO causing connection issues
I'm having a strange issue with some RDS GPO's. Since automating the RDS server build process through SCCM I've moved the RDS farm / connection broker settings to a GPO. This works fine, once the...
View ArticleAll remote desktop sessions in my farm collection are 0
Hi all,We do have a RDS farm with 2 session host servers. I have created a collection. The collection is working fine, however when I want to "shadow" a session I receive an error: The specified...
View ArticleHow to remove 2003 CALs to install 2008 in a Server 2008R2
Hello. I have installed in Windows Server 2008R2 Standard 2003 and 2008 CALs. We are not using 2003 CALs anymore so I need to uninstall 2003 CALs to install more 2008 CALs. We are not going to change...
View ArticleOptimize Start Menu Cache Files
Hi,We have setup a brand new Remote Desktop Services farm with 10 Session Hosts for 200 users.Now we see the Task 'Optimize Start Menu Cache Files xxx(SID)' for about 200 times on every Session Host...
View Articleschedule disconnect all sessions
Hi,is it possible to schedule disconnect all sessions.Example: the building is closed at 19:00. I want to disconnect all remaining sessions from RDS2012R2 at this time.There are some autologon...
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