Hi
I have a 2008 R2 TS that I need to stay around for a few more weeks. Trouble is that is was pointing to a 2008 TS license server that was decommissioned recently. I have the license agreement info and I would like to point this TS server to itself for CALs.
No users are getting denied right now, but I want to be sure that won't happen.
TYIA
Hi guys,
In my private cloud environment I have a Remote Desktop Gateway (with public FQDN gateway.public.com) and a number of server with Remote Desktop Services role. To be more precise each server runs RD Connection Broker, RD Web Access and RD Session Host roles. Every customer connects to their respective server.
Recently I noticed that in Server Manager\Remote Desktop Services\Collections\Edit Deployment Properties\RD Gateway different clients have different setup which has the same result - They all can connect to their remote session hosts via remote desktop gateway. (Please see the screenshots below).
To my surprise I discovered that even if incorrect FQDN is entered for RD gateway, users are still able to connect to their remote session hosts.
In the context of my discoveries I'm just wondering if someone could explain what role RD Gateway settings play when a collection is deployed in similar scenario (RD Gateway + RD Session Host).
Thanks and Regards,
Hello,
I have Windows Server 2012 R2 Retail licence assignet to the phisical server. I want to use that licence on two virtual servers. To that server I will login via RDP connection only. Do I need one CAL and one RDS CAL to each user on virtual machine?
For example:
First virtual server -> 3 users
Second virtual server -> 2 users
I need 5 CALs and 5 RDS CALs?
Best regards
This is the scenario:
I have a 3rd party application that brings up a listening TCP port for communications purposes.
This applications has a preconfigured listening port, lets say 49000, but the fact is the port is not available.
Testing this issue with iperf has brougth some info to light: Windows somehow redirects the listening port to a random TCP port, starting at 20000 and assigning it "randomly". Here are some pictures:
iperf acting as server (netstat shows the port 42500 is not listening):
Client failing to connect:
processexplorer to check the listening port:
Succesful connection with the redirected port:
Nestat with redirected port:
This behaviour seems reasonable, otherwise only the first user to turn on the applicacion would be able to actually use it but I haven't been able to find some information that explains how this process work and why does it do.
I can't find any information about it and I would like to know if I am right or there is another cause for this beaviour as well as know if there is a workaround for this app to run.
Jordi.
Hi,
We have a Windows 2019 RDS farm with 2 session hosts. Our license server has 120 CALs available. A GPO directs the session hosts to the license server.
After a month of deploying it, our users started receiving the error:
“There is a problem with your remote desktop license and your session will be disconnected in 60 minutes. Contact your Administrator to fix this problem.”
Running RD Licensing Diagnoser on the session host showed that 50+ "Per User" licenses were available. Unable to find a solution I ended up rebuilding the whole farm from scratch. Today (a month later) the problem returned.
Deja vu, running RD Licensing Diagnoser on the faulty session hosts tells me that the license server is up, 55 out of our 120 licenses are available, and that the licensing mode is “Per User”.
The problem first affects one of the session hosts, then later the other. I see no errors or warnings in Event Viewer concerning the licensing services on either the session host or licensing server.
We have another RDS farm still running 2016 on this domain, and it has not displayed any of these problems.
Any help would be appreciated. I’d rather not rebuild this farm with 2016 (which is the only path I see to fixing this).
Hi there,
In my environment we run 4 virtual windows server 2012 R2 plus a host on the same. Occasionally on the Main domain controller I will receive and RDP error from one of our sensors on our monitoring software (PRTG), when trying to remote in it will pop up saying, unable to connect and internal error has occured. It is very random, some days it wont happen sometimes it may happen once, it could happen 3 or 4 times at random intervals in a 20 minute period, the sensor also monitors the response time for RDP and it just seems to timeout. We have a sonicwall firewall in between the server and the outside world. I have tried changing the connection properties on windows firewall as well and other suggestions don seem to apply to my environment. Would anyone have any suggestions.
Kind Regards
Ben
Hello everybody,
A customer runs Windows Server 2019 terminal server farms. From the local network, everything is fine. Users get perfectly connected and load-balanced to the RD servers. However, if the log on to the domain through a VPN (TMG 2010) which does not block any traffic, they can only only sometimes connect to the farm. When they fail, their Windows 10 RDP client just yields an "internal error" without being more specific.
We checked already:
* TMG does not block anything coming from the VPN to the inner servers or vice-versa. We also tried temporary firewall rules allowing any traffic in both directions.
* DNS resolution and contact to the domain controllers is fine from the LAN and through the VPN. There are DNS A records for each RD server, and for each RD server there is a DNS A record with the farm name, pointing to each of the RD servers, for DNS round-robin.
* The RD broker (a separate server) load-balances the users just fine.
* The clients get a DHCP address for their VPN connection from VPN, also just fine.
* The clients CAN connect every time to the old 2008 R2 server farm which did not load balance. When they try to connect to a 2019 farm (with each farm consisting of 4 RD servers and its own broker and licensing server), the only connect sometimes, the other time failing with the "internal error".
* The clients connect (locally and through VPN) using the same .rdp file pointing to the farm name. The do not use RDWeb currently, nor a RD gateway.
We have the suspicion (although not proved 100% yet) that the users can connect when a RD redirection is not needed/requested by the RD server that they initially contact via DNS round-robin.
Is such a symptom known? Does anyone have a clue what is happening here?
Best Regards, Stefan Falk
Hi Guys,
I'm new in the forum, i have a problem with redirection of local client webcam to RemoteApp Skype of RDS 2016 Farm.
the farm is composed of:
-2 RD Web Access (HA configured)
-2 RD Connection Broker (HA Configured)
-1 RD Gateway e Licensing
-2 RD Session Host
OS: Windows Server 2016 64Bit
I have already performed these steps:
-GPO "Allow audio and video playback redirection" (enabled)
-GPO "Do not allow supported Plug an Play device redirection" (Disabled)
-GPO "Allow RDP redirection of supported RemoteFX USB devices from this computer" (enabled)
-GPO "Enable RemoteFX encoding for RemoteFX client designed for WIndows Server 2008 R2 SP1" (enabled)
-In the Broker Server i have run in powershell --> Set-RDSessionCollectionConfiguration -CollectionName "CollectionNAME" –CustomRdpProperty “usbdevicestoredirect:s:*”
If i connect by RDP the webcam works fine but not in RD Web Access.
Thanks for your help!
Matteo
Hi!
I am testing RDS 2019 with RemoteApp, and I have problems with startup splash screens. Each splash screen creates a button on the client’s taskbar and does not disappear from desktop and taskbar after the appearance of the main window. For example, I run three RemoteApp and I have three splash screens and three program windows on my desktop. And even if I close these windows, the splash screens will still remain on desktop and cannot be closed. This happens only in RemoteApp and does not occur with a remote desktop mode. I tried to recreate an RDS farm again, but it does not help.
This does not happen with all programs (having splash screen), but with many. At the same time, there were no such problems at RDS 2012R2/2016.
As RDCB and RDSH used Windows Server 2019 with latest cumulative update (2019-01). As clients used Windows 10 1709/1809 with same update.
I'm trying to get rid of the "Self Signed" Remote Desktop Certificate.
We're utsing centrally issued SSL Certs that have been imported into the Computer > Certificates > Personal > Certificates folder as well as the REmote Desktop > Certificates folder.
The issue is every time I reboot the server the Self Signed Cert returns and it's getting pinged on a security scan. While I've set the properties to not be used for any purpose, I would really like to get rid to the thing.
How do I go about stopping the server from re-issuing the Self Signed Cert on each reboot?
Thanks in advance!
BWDenver
We are currently working on some automation for scaling out a Remote Desktop farm, and have hit an issue with powershell and the broker. We have an HA broker with the broker name of RDBROKERCLUSTER. Round robin DNS resolves that to BROKER1 and BROKER2. Our basic farm is set up and I can log into RDWeb, click on the session collection and log in via RDBROKERCLUSTER and I get sent to my sessions hosts.
Now we are trying to set up additional session hosts via powershell. We have some scripts spinning up new servers, domain joining them and adding the RDP role.
Then we are trying to run the following to make them session hosts:
Add-RDServer -Server "RDS-SH-03.corp.domain.com" -Role "RDS-RD-SERVER" -ConnectionBroker "rdbrokercluster.corp.domain.com"
Add-RDSessionHost -SessionHost "RDS-SH-03.corp.domain.com" -ConnectionBroker "rdbrokercluster.corp.domain.com" -CollectionName "test-collection"
These commands fail when I point the broker address to the HA name. If I change it to "-ConnectionBroker "Broker1" then the commands succeed. However, since I want this to work in an HA configuration, I want session hosts to be added even if one broker goes down, so I don't want my script dependent on any one broker.
Can someone help me get this working or is this a limitation of RDP where you MUST specify an actual broker, rather than the HA name?
Thank you in advance!
I run an application in my local computers but I need the application data file in a remote virtual server running Windows 2016. I do not want to do remote desktop to run the application software in the server. I just want to host the application
data file.
How I set this up? I do not want to create a local copy of the server file because then clients be created segregates versions and this will not do me any good.
Hope my scenario has been laid down in a clear matter.
Hi,
I have a question about how to control i.e. grant / deny access to applications installed on Remote Desktop Session Host Servers.
Is there any recommended method/best practices to be used for granting access to a particular application (installed on RDSH Servers) to a limited set of users?
Thanks,
Amit Jogi
Hello,
We are planning to deploy OneIdentity SPS for session monitoring. We want to deploy it as a Remote Desktop Gateway in front of a windows server (Session Host).
I want to know how will the license be managed in this case. Note: We have RDS Device CAL license model.
Knowing that all traffic will go through the SPS, is this considered as one device?
For more on SPS as RD gateway: https://support.oneidentity.com/technical-documents/doc1300463
Hello.
I heard that phrase before "There is no stupid questions, only stupid answers". I am going to challenge it.
Here is a stupid question that I came up with and I do not remember seeing it asked or answered!
Our techops need to have simultaneous access to administer certain application servers. Until now, they used direct RD connections that limited them to 2 simultaneous sessions. I have deployed server 2016 RDS infrastructure, installed RD Session host roles
on those applications servers, that they managed, placed them in one collection, installed User CALs and voila. The techops add RDS gateway in the RD properties and happily connect to the servers.
Have I achieved the requested goal?
What did I just give them - an environment which they can now use as remote users (aka VDI) or the way to have more than 2 simultaneous connections or the combination of the 2 ? Which option for a session type would be better: pooled desktop session
or personal desktop session?
Thank you.
Hi Experts!
Would like to ask if it is possible to have 2 Collection which is windows 7 and 10 with 2 RDSH in one VDI infrastructure ? Or should i need to add additional RDSH for new Windows collection in same server?
Currently we have existing windows 7 collection and we provision to build another collection, we have successfully build it and create virtual desktop under the new collection. Unfortunately upon testing /log in to windows 10 we have an error message prompt below.
Can someone tell us the best practices if it's possible to have 2 collection with 2 RDSH only separated the RDVH server. or it may required to have additional Remote Desktop Session host in VDI. ?
Homer Sibayan
Hi,
We have a web application published on rdweb through internet explorer. When users click on the application, it opens in internet explorer and the screen resolution is fine when opened on PCs but very small if Microsoft Surface users open it. We are currently having same application with two different sizes to solve this problem. Is there a way to have one size for all the devices?
Thanks.
We have Server 2019 running RDS
How do I get Sticky Notes installed ?
Thanks,
Steve
Hello,
We have two old virtualmachine 2008 r2, running remote desktop app services, and we got some issues with schtask.exe process that comes randomly and uses all of cpu ressources that freeze the server.
We have to force restart the vm to get the services running again.
My question :
is it possible to disable remote access to schtasks.exe or just disable it forever? Because we 're suspecting a virus trying to remotly access to the task scheduler on both machines.
Thanks in advance and sorry for my bad english
Hello,
I have Windows Server 2012 R2 Retail licence assignet to the phisical server. I want to use that licence on two virtual servers. To that server I will login via RDP connection only. Do I need one CAL and one RDS CAL to each user on virtual machine?
For example:
First virtual server -> 3 users
Second virtual server -> 2 users
I need 5 CALs and 5 RDS CALs?
Best regards