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Desktop background and color

April 21, 2020, 3:37 pm
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Hello,

I'm looking for some tips on how to use GP set the background color of the desktop, and/or taskbar (not as important). Server 2016 session host servers providing a full published desktop.

Why?

Some of my sites have low bandwidth so I want to force the background wallpaper to be removed (done), and to change the remaining desktop color to something other than black (not done).

Any tips?

I have:

  • I have used GP to remove the desktop wallpaper. Now the background is black, with a black task bar
    GP > Computer Config > Admin Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host > Remote Session Environment

This is not the correct setting:

  • GP > Computer Config > Admin Templates > Control Panel > Personalization > Force a specific background and accent color
    (this is actually controlling the start menu colors)

I am hoping there is a more efficient way to control this other than setting a background image of one color and XX pixels in size.


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saggy performance internally.

April 2, 2020, 2:52 pm
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have a new deployment of server 2019 terminal services.  We are sharing just the applications, not the full vdi, also i have the session host and the gateway/broker as two separate virtual machines using hyper-v.  The session host is using a direct attached graphics card.  The gateway/broker is configured w/ two nics, one internal, and the other in a DMZ.  The session host just has the one internal nic.  

The issues is that when i connect from my internal network, that is when the performance is awful.  The best i can describe it is that it's lagging behind.  For example the calculator app, after i move the mouse over it and click some numbers, over the course of the next 30 seconds i can see just where i moved my mouse all over the app and click the numbers.  Also when i move the app's windows it moves about 30 seconds after i move it.  However if i remote in from the outside world it works perfect.  Hardware performance is not getting taxed at all, it feels very much like a connection thing.  I had meraki verify that all the traffic was staying local on that switch, and the there was no lag coming from the switch, but he did note that he felt there was an excessive amount of udp traffic given the task at hand. 

Any idea's on where else i could even look to trouble shoot this, or better yet a solution>?

many thanks! 

IT guy

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duplicate license use for RDS servers

April 21, 2020, 11:05 pm
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Hi

I have administration servers RDS Win2016 Server name serv1 with per user licensing and next RDS Win2016 Server name serv2 with per dev licensing.  From this RDS servers we connect myself to RDS cluster with per dev licensing. On license server I see multiple issued CALS for this two RDS servers. I used power shell script OutTSlicense for looking information about issued license for devices from RDS cluster. We have a lot off issued license for administration server serv1 and serv2. For different devices thin client and windows desktop i don't have duplicate license use.

When I connect from serv1 RDS Windows 2016 Server to my RDS cluster should be issued 1 per device CAL license but are issued 12 CALS. On this server work only 5 users.

Information from OutTSlicense script issued CALS:

hostname hardwareid

serv1     00024c4c454458100043c0b15680324b354f

serv1     00024c4c454458100043c0b15680324b354f

.........

I have 12 issued DEV CALS for one server with this same hardwareid.

While this consume me multiple CALS?

Regards

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Multiple duplicate RDS CAL license use for RDS servers

April 21, 2020, 11:05 pm
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Hi

I have administration servers RDS Win2016 Server name serv1 with per user licensing and next RDS Win2016 Server name serv2 with per dev licensing. 

From this RDS servers we connect myself to RDS cluster with per dev licensing. This RDS cluster have 3 Windows 2016 Servers. On license server I see multiple issued RDS CALS for this two RDS servers serv1 and serv2.

I used power shell script OutTSlicense for looking information about issued license for devices from RDS cluster. We have a lot off issued license for administration server serv1 and serv2. For different devices thin client and windows desktop I don't have duplicate license use.

When I connect from serv1 RDS Windows 2016 Server to my RDS cluster should be issued 1 per device RDS CAL license for serv1 but are issued 12 CALS. On  serv1 work only 5 users.

Information from OutTSlicense script issued CALS:

hostname hardwareid

serv1     00024c4c454458100043c0b15680324b354f

serv1     00024c4c454458100043c0b15680324b354f

.........

I have 12 issued RDS DEV CALS for one server with this same hardwareid.

While this consume me multiple CALS?

Regards



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Delays in user experience, using a RDS-deployment

April 22, 2020, 2:08 am
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Hi!

I need help with a RDS-deployment where our users primarily experience delays in open PDF files.
If a user opens a PDF-file in Acrobat Reader DC from the Desktop it takes approx 20-30 seconds to open it. But only the first time. If the user close the file and open a different PDF-file, it starts within a few seconds.

We first believed that it had something to do with the application itself. But we have tried "all" setting configurations in Adobe, without any progress.

We also experience delays when opening for an example Windows Powershell as administrator, DNS Manager, Active Directory Users and Computers on the domain controller. Approx 20-30 seconds as well.

We don't see anything strange, warnings or errors, in the event log.

For the RDS-deployment we use user profile disks on another server, 20 GB maximum.

We have temporarily disabled the firewall, antivirus, verified power plan "high performance" etc.

After a lot of troubleshooting, I tried to create a new admin user with exactly the same access and created in the same OU as another admin user that experience the delays. The new user is working totally normal. All problems described above can't be reproduced. Can someone explain why?


The environment contains of one domain controller, one file server (user profile disks) and the RDS server. Windows Server 2016 Standard. The RDS server has 8 GB RAM, 4 CPU. Approx 10 users uses the remote desktop simultaneously. CPU and RAM utilization is ok. All RDS roles is installed on the RDS server.

It's VMware in the background, we don't find anything strange regarding disk latency either. We use paravirtual disks.


Thanks in advance!

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Install CAL license per devices

April 19, 2020, 12:21 am
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Hi everyone,

i configured RDSH/ RDP licensing server

I change mode RDP to per user, after i change again to per devices.

But i can't install again my CAL key.

Always total available client number : 0

What can i do for this issues?


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Remote Desktop no longer works

April 22, 2020, 5:17 am
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I was able to connect remotely to an officer server running Windows 2016 Standard Evaluation until recently. I suspect there could be an update on the server end that affected remote desktop. When I run netstat -a on the server, it shows that port 3389 is listening but when I try to connect from my windows 10 laptop it gives me an error. What could be the issue?
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users unable to login to RDS (user profile service prohibits..)

April 16, 2020, 5:05 am
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Hi,

Sometimes we have issues with users unable to login to the RDS collection. Researching this we came to the conclusion the problem is with corrupt profiles on the local RDS server. Sometimes people login with a temp profile, creating a profile folder with only appdata.

The way to fix this issue is cleaning the local profile from all RDS server in the collection and renaming the roaming profile from the fileservers.

Im looking for a script or tool that correctly cleans profiles from RDS servers and also cleans the registry in Profilelist and Profileguid. For now i only found scripts that does one thing and not everything that is needed to clean corrupt ones.

Thanks!

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PublishedApp

April 13, 2020, 10:42 am
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Hi there

I am trying to publish an application to my RDS 2019 environment with special settings per user.

I am familiar into how to publish most of the apps but this one comes with a trick.

In the typical RDS desktop environment, each user has their won desktop that when launched, looks at the target command and pulls the property from the registry entry. Something like

users one has on desktop a shortcut that points to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" in the target but we add /111.

So the shortcut in the Target is something like : "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" /111

Each users will have that shortcut differently:

user 2 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" /112

user 3 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" /113

Question here, is: 

How can I publish that shortcut to my users that log into the rds web interface.

Thanks

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Azure AD Proxy and RDS 2019- Does Set-RDPublishedName script work? (logon attempt failed)

April 22, 2020, 4:16 pm
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Well I just wrote a multi-page post here referencing my entire architecture, troubleshooting attempts made, guides read and then got an internal server error when I tried to post it so I'm not going to go through that again, I'll just simplify my question-

Has anyone gotten Azure AD Proxy in pre-authentication mode to work with RDS 2019 in an environment where you alter the published name to prevent certificate warnings due to split domains?

I have everything setup exactly as is described here- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/manage-apps/application-proxy-integrate-with-remote-desktop-services

Internal address points to an internal DNS record that points to my connection broker/rd gateway server.

This all works fine for the RD Web Access Portal, I can login to the external address, get prompted by azure for login, get to the internal portal without errors, login there and can see my session host collection. When I click that collection though I get"logon attempt failed"

This is using Internet Explorer, with the MsRdpClientShell Class addin enabled.

The gateway works perfectly inside of my network, using the DNS address or the server FQDN (though this way will give cert warnings).

I've tried disabling HTTP redirection on the IIS server on the connection broker. I've set the RAP to allow connections to all resources and when that did not work I specifically added the DNS name to the resource list.

Mostly I just need to know if this is even possible or if Azure AD proxy will not work with the RD Gateway using a changed published address like this.

Thanks!

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Edit- Also I cannot find any failed connections in the logs, so it doesn't appear as if the connection attempt is actually hitting the broker or gateway


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Virtual Windows 10 on HyperV remote display adapter crashing

April 20, 2020, 10:06 am
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We are having repeated problems the last couple weeks with being unable to RDP to a virtual Windows 10 1909 PC running on HyperV Windows Server 2016. It will not respond when we try to RDP to it and then when I get on the console and try to log on, I just get a black screen after logging on and have to reset the virtual PC. After the reset, we can RDP to it fine for a while, until the problem occurs again later. In searching the event logs I found the following errors. I couldn't find anything else in the event logs that looked like a problem. The fixes for this talk about updating video drivers but the only video drivers are Microsoft Hyper-V Video and Microsoft Remote Display Adapter. The 3D video driver in HyperV is not installed (I saw online as a fix for this issue was to remove it). I checked and there were no updates available in device manager for the video drivers. I was working on the PC this afternoon when I was bumped out of my RDP session and when I checked the event log, I saw the below 2 errors had happened right when I was bumped out. What is causing this and how can I fix it?

Log Name:      System
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-DriverFrameworks-UserMode
Date:          4/17/2020 12:42:42 PM
Event ID:      10111
Task Category: User-mode Driver problems.
Level:         Critical
Keywords:      
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      Watchguard.CCH.org
Description:
The device Microsoft Remote Display Adapter (location (unknown)) is offline due to a user-mode driver crash.  Windows will attempt to restart the device 5 more times.  Please contact the device manufacturer for more information about this problem.

Log Name:      System
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-DriverFrameworks-UserMode
Date:          4/17/2020 12:42:42 PM
Event ID:      10110
Task Category: User-mode Driver problems.
Level:         Critical
Keywords:      
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      Watchguard.CCH.org
Description:
A problem has occurred with one or more user-mode drivers and the hosting process has been terminated.  This may temporarily interrupt your ability to access the devices.
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RDS 2019 after rename via Set-RDPPublishedName can't open published apps anymore

April 17, 2020, 7:44 am
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Hi,

we are running one RDS2019 server.

internal FQDN:    rds2019.ourdomain.com

external FQDN:   service.ourdomain.com

installed certificate: service.ourdomain.com

Gateway service is installed and connection broker is set to external FQDN.

Login to rdweb works fine. If you start any published app it shows up both servers on the RDP connection. So the connection drops due to the fact that on the certficate only the external name is published.

Now we've changed the internal FQDN via the script. Looks great. On the RDP both servers have the same name - but... Can't sign in anymore during the app start.

The Kerberos client received a KRB_AP_ERR_MODIFIED error from the server

and

The program lsass.exe, with the assigned process ID 720, could not authenticate locally by using the target name TERMSRV/service.ourdomain.com. The target name used is not valid. A target name should refer to one of the local computer names, for example, the DNS host name.

Any suggestions?


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Remote Desktop Group

April 22, 2020, 11:33 pm
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We have a Remote Desktop Server 2012, Do users need to be in the local Remote Desktop Users group on the RDS server to be able to logon to RDS, or is this permission set in RDS itself?

Thanks

Pat

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RDS with Azure Azure Load Balancer

April 17, 2020, 2:03 am
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Hello,

I have configured a RDS (Terminal Server) on windows server 2019 on Azure. I have created a load balancer as im going to make the broker HA later.

At the Azure load balancer I have both server inside an Availability Set and I can access the rd web page without any problem.

The problem start here.:

I need now to make the broker HA, add a second server. I have created a Azure SQL and the connection with the database is ok, but when I add the load balancer name to the dns cluster is giving error as it seems that is not resolving the dns name.

From the cmd I can resolve the name of the load balancer as it has DNS record but the broker can’t resolve it.

The configuration that I have made on the load balancer rules.

Im using only private IP, no server has public IP.

Maybe I need to allow any special port on the load balancer so that the broker can resolve the dns name?

sorry but im a bit new on this..

thank you

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RDSH Licensing - per user - duplicates (lowercase/uppercase accounts)

April 23, 2020, 2:22 am
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Hi,

To whom it may concern at Microsoft,

I just wan to inform that my RD licensing server contains many duplicates in the form of <MyDomain>\<user> and <Mydomain>\<USER>.

Since it seems no to be a blocking issue, I won't spend time to cleanup that mess.

But, if someone at Microsoft has time to look into that issue and integrate a fix in a forthcoming patch. Just to keep things tidy...

Cheers

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RDSH Licensing - license server does not have any installed licenses with the following attributes: Product version: Windows Server 2019 Licensing mode: Per User License type: RDS CALs

April 23, 2020, 2:33 am
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My RDSH servers have the following warning :

The Remote Desktop Session Host server is in Per User licensing mode and No Redirector Mode, but license server ovm-rdscal-srv1.esrf.fr does not have any installed licenses with the following attributes:
Product version: Windows Server 2019
Licensing mode: Per User
License type: RDS CALs

My RDSH Licesing server has the appropriate RDS CALs installed

So what ?

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Remote Desktop Services Best Practices

April 13, 2020, 2:39 pm
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Hey Guys, first post so I apologize if this is hidden somewhere in another forum.  Our company is looking to create standards for user sessions using RDG.  I've been doing some research but can't identify anything solid as to what the best practices would be for user sessions.  Particularly looking to identify the policies below.  If anyone has examples on how you've set this up for your company, any feedback is welcome.  I understand each has their own belief on what is correct for best practices but I'm looking to get a starting point.

Set time limit for disconnected sessions Set time limit for active but idle Remote Desktop Services sessions Set time limit for active Remote Desktop Services sessions Time before screen lock

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Taskbar shortcuts are duplicated

April 23, 2020, 4:04 am
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Hello everyone)

There was such a problem.

There is a farm (2 brokers, 12 hosts, a gate). There are published applications. When you open the application, 2 shortcuts appear on the taskbar in user machines. 1 - mstsc, 2 - published application.

Connection goes through RDGW. I don’t understand which way to dig. The problem is mildly floating.
For some employees this is present (Win7-10), for some not.

Maybe someone has already encountered a similar ...?

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Remote Desktop deployment Fails: Unable to create the session collection

April 9, 2020, 1:25 pm
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Hello all!

I am trying to install Remote Desktop Services (Roles: RD Connection, RD Session Host, RD Web Access) on Server 2019 that was previouse installed on the same server, where at the time it was on Server 2008 R2. This is a part of a server upgrade. Before upgrading the server I uninstalled the RDS roles then upgraded it from 2008t2 -> 2012 ->2012r2-> 2019. Up running the RDS deployment I am stuck at what is shown in the screen shot. I don't have a background in RDS so I have just been following guides and blogs but can't see me to find anything on this error. I am guessing there is a specific group policy that I need to create? 

In case you can't see it full, the error reads as follows:

Failed:
Unable to create the session collection. The property UserAuthenticationRequired is configured by using Group Policy settings. Use the Group Policy Management Console to configure this property.

Phil Balderos

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User gets Access Denied launching remote app after working without a problem previously

April 13, 2020, 2:03 am
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Looking for some assistance in starting to debug an issue which is causing a lot of user frustration. We have a small scale Remote Desktop Services. Single management server and singe session host server.

Users can login to the RD Web Access and launch a remote app without an issue and work as normal. All of a sudden at some point in the day or on another day after disconnecting and reconnecting they now get a Access Denied message when launching the remote app and logging in. 

The only way to resolve this issue is by rebooting the session host server. We have now resorted to rebooting the session host server every evening but still get the issue appearing at some point later in the day around 17:00.

We cannot see anything obvious in the event logs.

Many thanks in advance for any assistance or guidance.



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