I have a Server 2012 R2 with all Remote Desktop roles and a number of Hyper-V VMs on it. This was all working fine until I replaced the (separate) domain controller. I had trouble with seeing the second domain controller (which is one of the VMs on the RDS server) and so I promoted the RDS box to a domain controller - I now know I shouldn't have.

The domain is now all sorted and I have removed the domain controller role from the RDS box. I can use RDS client to connect to any of the VMs. However if I try to use RDS client to connect to the RDS host, the connection fails and the RDS server's event log contains error 802 - Connection Broker failed to process the connection request for user ...... Error: Element not found.

In the Event Viewer, I have Custom Views / Server Roles /.../ Remote Desktop Services AND Remote Desktop Services1 (which contains the 802 error). Please can someone suggest a solution.

Hello   we recently switched ISPs.  Previously we were using our own hardware to create an ipsec tunnel\vpn between the locations, but the new ISP's modem does that for us now. The problem is after the switch I can nolonger remote into the domain controller at one of the report sites.  I can log into any other machine there, just not that one directly.   If I really want to get in I have to first remote into a pc at that office and remote into the DC from there.  OR  I can have some there at that office start a VPN\RRAS session from that server to another one in my office and then I can get in directly. Any ideas on how to remove that extra step?   I don't know why I can get into everything except that server.  I know switch ISPs happened about the same time, but I'm doubtly they are the problem since I can get into every other device remotely.  

Hello,

We are working with Windows Server 2012 R2 RDS. We also implemented User Profile Disks. This is all working fine without problems. The only issue I have is that normal users are unable to delete files from their desktop. They are getting a message: you'll need administrator permission to delete this file, with the prompt for administrator access.

They can edit, copy, rename, cut and paste files. But they cannot delete a file from their desktop.

I checked the security permissions of the files on the desktop (for example a normal self-created PDF file) and the users are owner and have "Full Control" over the files.

I checked the file permissions and took a look under "Advanced", selecting the specific domain user and checked the "Advanced Permissions" and the user has the "Delete" option checked. So he should be able to delete the file.

I am guessing this is UPD related issue, or something in GPO. But I already unlinked the GPO objects, that I felt could be the source of this problem, but without results.

Could someone give me a hint on where to look? It's kinda annoying to users, that they can't delete their own files.

hi everyone,

I have a problem with my printers. I have an Event ID 372 with error code 5 : Access Denied when I try to print.

I have read some threads about the permissions on the PRINTERS directory but it doesn't work for me.

Need advices.

Thanks.

Redrushle

Hey All,

Running into a curious issue that I've been trying to fix on and off, related specifically to using "Remote Resources" from the RDP App version 8.0.9 on OSX only.

When I type in the (proper) URL for my RDWeb Server, it hangs and never displays any remote resources. What is more alarming however, is the IIS traffic server side shows it continually retrying and failing without ever stopping. The only way to get it to"stop" is to go back in and blank out the Remote Resources fields, and press refresh. I've been able to eat up a significant amount of CPU on my RDWeb servers by just getting 5-10 Mac's trying to connect at the same time, and let it run for 5-10 minutes, it just never stops retrying.

The server side logs look like this:

2014-09-20 14:46:39 %MYPUBLICSERVERIP% GET /RDWeb/feed/webfeed.aspx - 443 - %MYPUBLICCLIENTIP% Mozilla/5.0 - 302 0 0 3281
2014-09-20 14:46:39 %MYPUBLICSERVERIP% GET /RDWeb/FeedLogin/WebFeedlogin.aspx ReturnUrl=%2fRDWeb%2ffeed%2fwebfeed.aspx 443 - %MYPUBLICCLIENTIP% Mozilla/5.0 - 401 2 5 93
2014-09-20 14:46:39 %MYPUBLICSERVERIP% GET /RDWeb/FeedLogin/WebFeedlogin.aspx ReturnUrl=%2fRDWeb%2ffeed%2fwebfeed.aspx 443 - %MYPUBLICCLIENTIP% Mozilla/5.0 - 401 1 2148074242 46
2014-09-20 14:46:39 %MYPUBLICSERVERIP% GET /RDWeb/FeedLogin/WebFeedlogin.aspx ReturnUrl=%2fRDWeb%2ffeed%2fwebfeed.aspx 443 - %MYPUBLICCLIENTIP% Mozilla/5.0 - 401 1 2148074242 31
2014-09-20 14:46:39 %MYPUBLICSERVERIP% GET /RDWeb/FeedLogin/WebFeedlogin.aspx ReturnUrl=%2fRDWeb%2ffeed%2fwebfeed.aspx 443 - %MYPUBLICCLIENTIP% Mozilla/5.0 - 401 1 2148074242 46
2014-09-20 14:46:39 %MYPUBLICSERVERIP% GET /RDWeb/FeedLogin/WebFeedlogin.aspx ReturnUrl=%2fRDWeb%2ffeed%2fwebfeed.aspx 443 - %MYPUBLICCLIENTIP% Mozilla/5.0 - 401 1 2148074242 46
2014-09-20 14:46:39 %MYPUBLICSERVERIP% GET /RDWeb/FeedLogin/WebFeedlogin.aspx ReturnUrl=%2fRDWeb%2ffeed%2fwebfeed.aspx 443 - %MYPUBLICCLIENTIP% Mozilla/5.0 - 401 1 2148074242 46
2014-09-20 14:46:39 %MYPUBLICSERVERIP% GET /RDWeb/FeedLogin/WebFeedlogin.aspx ReturnUrl=%2fRDWeb%2ffeed%2fwebfeed.aspx 443 - %MYPUBLICCLIENTIP% Mozilla/5.0 - 401 1 2148074242 46
2014-09-20 14:46:39 %MYPUBLICSERVERIP% GET /RDWeb/FeedLogin/WebFeedlogin.aspx ReturnUrl=%2fRDWeb%2ffeed%2fwebfeed.aspx 443 - %MYPUBLICCLIENTIP% Mozilla/5.0 - 401 1 2148074242 46
2014-09-20 14:46:39 %MYPUBLICSERVERIP% GET /RDWeb/FeedLogin/WebFeedlogin.aspx ReturnUrl=%2fRDWeb%2ffeed%2fwebfeed.aspx 443 - %MYPUBLICCLIENTIP% Mozilla/5.0 - 401 1 2148074242 31
2014-09-20 14:46:39 %MYPUBLICSERVERIP% GET /RDWeb/FeedLogin/WebFeedlogin.aspx ReturnUrl=%2fRDWeb%2ffeed%2fwebfeed.aspx 443 - %MYPUBLICCLIENTIP% Mozilla/5.0 - 401 1 2148074242 31
2014-09-20 14:46:39 %MYPUBLICSERVERIP% GET /RDWeb/FeedLogin/WebFeedlogin.aspx ReturnUrl=%2fRDWeb%2ffeed%2fwebfeed.aspx 443 - %MYPUBLICCLIENTIP% Mozilla/5.0 - 401 1 2148074242 46
2014-09-20 14:46:39 %MYPUBLICSERVERIP% GET /RDWeb/FeedLogin/WebFeedlogin.aspx ReturnUrl=%2fRDWeb%2ffeed%2fwebfeed.aspx 443 - %MYPUBLICCLIENTIP% Mozilla/5.0 - 401 1 2148074242 62
2014-09-20 14:46:39 %MYPUBLICSERVERIP% GET /RDWeb/FeedLogin/WebFeedlogin.aspx ReturnUrl=%2fRDWeb%2ffeed%2fwebfeed.aspx 443 - %MYPUBLICCLIENTIP% Mozilla/5.0 - 401 1 2148074242 31
2014-09-20 14:46:39 %MYPUBLICSERVERIP% GET /RDWeb/FeedLogin/WebFeedlogin.aspx ReturnUrl=%2fRDWeb%2ffeed%2fwebfeed.aspx 443 - %MYPUBLICCLIENTIP% Mozilla/5.0 - 401 1 2148074242 46
2014-09-20 14:46:39 %MYPUBLICSERVERIP% GET /RDWeb/FeedLogin/WebFeedlogin.aspx ReturnUrl=%2fRDWeb%2ffeed%2fwebfeed.aspx 443 - %MYPUBLICCLIENTIP% Mozilla/5.0 - 401 1 2148074242 46
2014-09-20 14:46:39 %MYPUBLICSERVERIP% GET /RDWeb/FeedLogin/WebFeedlogin.aspx ReturnUrl=%2fRDWeb%2ffeed%2fwebfeed.aspx 443 - %MYPUBLICCLIENTIP% Mozilla/5.0 - 401 1 2148074242 31

...and on and on, repeating in an endless loop until I manually blank the details within "Remote Resources" on the Mac.

My first thought was to chase down the 401.2 error, which leads me to believe the Client and Server did not support a common authentication scheme? We do currenlty do some basic server hardening via GPO - disabling RC4 and SSLv2, as this server is intended to be publically available when we go live. However, reverting this stuff back to "stock", and rebooting, has not alleviated the issue, or change the IIS log output. My research on the various 401.1 errors hasn't gotten me anywhere either, unfortunately.

The interesting thing is, using Windows 7, 8, 8.1 is fine. Using Android's RDP app, as well as IOS RDP App, I can use the "Remote Resources" function just fine. We are using 100% Public trusted CA certs, and everything "else" seems to work with the exception of "Remote Resources" on OSX specifically.

On OSX, I can also use Safari, or Firefox and load the Remote Desktop Web Access page, and launch an app successfully (Minus the still existing RD Gateway issue, which requires the .RDP file be manually edited first to work through an RD Gateway on OSX, it still ignores these settings as of 8.0.9). Additionally, within Safari or Firefox, I can visit the "/feed/webfeed.aspx" url and login, to where it will download the RSS feed as a file, so it appears to "function" at least through the browser to some extent. (it is my understanding that all the Remote Resources portion should be doing is downloading the RSS feed and populating it within the RDS app for convenience?)

Has anyone seen this before? Surely I can't be the only one....? Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions, I can provide additional details or clarification if needed.

We have a Brother ADS-2000 Scanner that works great on a local Windows 7 PC. We have configured RemoteFX with our 2012 RDS server and the device is seen and detected in the terminal server session. The problem is when we try to scan from the RDS session we receive an error stating that the device is not connected. (See Below)

When we try to scan from the Paint application we get:

"Unable to retrieve picture from device. verify the device is properly connected and try again."

We've updated the drivers on the local machine and like I said the scanner is seen in the Remote session, it just won't scan? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

We have a Server 2008 R2 terminal server with an application on it that is losing it's authentication to our IIS server. Basically you log in to the application and when you begin to work in it, it tells you it has lost it's connection to the server. At that point, you have to close and reopen the program and it will work again for a while until the same issue occurs. What is weird though is that if we open up Internet Explorer on the server and then launch the application, the problem doesn't occur. So there seems to be some sort of Internet Explorer setting that is getting applied that is allowing the authentication to work.

The application in IIS is using Windows Authentication. Has anyone ever ran in to an issue like this before?

Hi Folks,
Searching information for applications ClickOnce, in RDS 2012 R2, in Remote Desktop Services Blog, I read these applications can't published as RemoteApp programs directly, they can now be installed and run from their hosting website through a web browser such as Internet Explorer published as a RemoteApp program.

Exist another form in the solve is the challenge?

I can solve these challenge using RDS combined with App-v.

Suggestions?

Thanks a lot!

Wilsterman Fernandes

Hi All,

I have 2 servers, Server X & server Y.

On License Manager on Server Y status shows below

Name: Server X, Activation Status: Activated, Discovery Scope: Workgroup, Configuration: Unavailable.

Name: Server Y, Activation Status: Activated, Discovery Scope: Domain, Configuration: OK.

NOW

1) Server X has terminal server role installed & license server feature installed but no CAL installed, so it is going to give default 90 days grace period only.

2) Server Y has terminal Licensing installed and CAL installed.

I want to deactivate server X as per http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc772319.aspx.

Does this will require server X restart or will it force server X to automatically restart once i enter confirmation code provided by Microsoft & click Next/finish?

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 server.

These can be deleted but they return whenever a user logs onto a specific Session Host server.

How can this be prevented? 

This has been addressed in another thread (http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-performance/how-do-i-permanently-delete-this-task-scheduler/0fd8f7a0-c182-45c1-ad42-f02d768cb295), but the solution there would be to stop the Tasks individually of stop the Task Scheduler. Both are obviously not what I, or anyone else, want.

Regards,

Sjoerd

hi,

1.  RDS server 2012 R2 is deployed and I can access published app byhttps://servername/rdweb

2.  RD Gateway will be never used (only LAN connections)

3. Would self signed certificate prevent to achieve THE GOAL:

need to publish an app by providing shortcut on user desktop in completely transparent for user manner.

There is no problem with purchasing a Trusted certificate. I thought that trusted will be necessary (less hassle) if RD Gateway is in place. But still have a feeling that even for publishing a shortcut there will be some pop up after user click on an icon if Self Assigned will be present.

Please clarify.

Thanks.

"When you hit a wrong note it's the next note that makes it good or bad". Miles Davis

Hi Everyone,

I am trying to publish Crystal Reports 2011 via RemoteApp Manager and I want to associate all Crystal Report files with the .msi I am creating so when people open local .rpt they open with Published App.

The problem is that when I go to create .msi file and I check: "Associate client extensions for this program with the remoteApp program" the filed "Take over the following file extensions:" remains empty. I need .rpt files associated with Crystal Reports.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Branimir

I'm struggling to get the information I need to call the Clearinghouse and get them to provide me with what I want/need.  I've inherited these 2 requirements, and I don't seem to have anyone in my organization that I can turn to for help/clarification:

1. A purchase of 300 user CALs was completed recently.  I just have an invoice from a 3rd party, but nothing that appears to come directly from Microsoft that provides any more info.

2. I have a Server 2003 R2 server that I want to upgrade to Server 2008 R2, and it has all kinds of user and device CALs loaded for Server 2000 and Server 2003.  It looks like the "Server 2003 TS per device CAL token" is all that is in use.

With #2, the type in the TS licensing manager indicates "Volume License".  What other information might I need to be able to make sure I can get the proper code after I upgrade?

What might I also need for #1?  Am I missing some kind of code?

I'm just hoping for any tips that might help me "crack the code"...

Hi

Before I arrived the setup was as follows. There was windows 2008 and windows 2012 RDS servers with the remote desktop services profile and the profile each  going to a separate share. This set-up was working fine until the server that hosted the two shares died.

The shares were recreated on a new server, the data copied across and the both of the profile settings were updated.

Since then the windows 2012 profiles have not worked and come up with a message saying that it can no longer access the server copy, using a local copy and that the changes can not be saved.

I have done some research into this issue and have found

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2887239/en-gb

When I looked at the profiles they have .v2 which I take it are the windows 2008 version and not the .v3 which is the windows 2012 version.

Now I'm almost ready to apply the hotfix and follow the document above.

The question is do I.

A) just apply the hotfix to the windows 2012 terminal servers.

B) Apply the hotfix just to where the terminal profiles are being stored, on a windows 2008 server

C) apply the hotfix to both the windows 2012 terminal servers and the place where they are being stored.

The document is not clear on what should be done.

We are due to install another terminal server but this will be windows 2012r2.

I take it that we just install this hotfix on either the right one to a,b or c to keep the .v4 profile seperate.

Cheers

Jason

Hello,

I have a client connecting to the terminal server through web access.

Bar Code printer is connecting to the client lpt port.

On the server 3rd party app (libra3s - old "DOS based" app) is running.

The application can see the printer. Can set it but nothing happen if i try to print from the client.

The program create a .dat file and just issue "copy name.dat lpt1" command.cmd

The program has only option for lpt. No usb...

So basically the file was sent to the lpt1 but never arrived.

How can i trace that cmd window on the server what running less than a secound? How can i check what is happeneing on the lpt1?

Any idea appreciated.

Thanks.

I Hate Mondays

Windows 2012 R2 and I will be using this server as a Session Host server in a farm.

I have tested this out and have found out the error occurs as soon as I join the server to the domain.

Our Domain is at the functional level 2008 because I have one more DC that isn't 2012.

all works well and I can use the server as normal but as soon as I add the server to the domain I then start receiving the message 'windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.

This happens for test user accounts (after RDHS role has been added) that try to use explorer.exe and some other items. It also appears when a domain administrator uses the search function (as soon as added to the domain)  at the start menu and searches for 'windows updates' and then clicks on the search result, error appears. but if you go to the control panel then the function works correctly.

I have followed this following directions (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc736643%28v=ws.10%29.aspx#BKMK_TSC) :

"Using Terminal Services Configuration

• Open Terminal Services Configuration.
• In the console tree, click Connections.
• In the details pane, right-click the connection for which you want to specify an initial program, and then clickProperties.
• On the Environment tab, under Initial program, selectStart the following program when the user logs on. This option allows you to configure an initial program for the connection.
  
  
  • If you select Do not allow an initial program to be launched. Always show desktop, then Terminal Services cannot start a specified initial program automatically when a client connects to a terminal server. Instead, the user must start programs by using the default desktop that is displayed during the Terminal Services session.
• If you select Run initial program specified by user profile and Remote Desktop Connection or Terminal Services client, then the program that is specified in the default user profile and in Remote Desktop Connection or the Terminal Services client will run when the client connects to the terminal server.

the problem is that now all of the server users get the specific program automatically starts when logged on and i cant undo it because i cant get to the desktop or to the "tscc.msc"

is there a way to fix it?

Hi All,

I´m configuring RDS on Windows 2012R2. I have two production RDS Servers and I installed one Broker and Gateway Server and two session Hosts. After creating a collection with two hosts I wanted to add a RemoteApp. On host1 no problem at all, but on host2 I receive following error:

Server.local is not available on the Network. Verify that the Server is available on the Network or remove the Server from the collection.

It´s not possible to publish a RemoteApp on that host. Does anyone has an idea?

Thanks.

Regards,
Dirk

I'm trying to list different informations of a RDS server farm => from a remote client PC <=

enter-pssession RDS-SERVER-XYZ.contoso.net
import-module remotedesktop
get-command -module remotedesktop

 Get-RDSessionCollection -ConnectionBroker RDS-BRK-1.contoso.net
 => fails with message :

 Cannot index into a null array.
 At C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\remotedesktop\Utility.psm1:54 char:9
 +     if ($_script_resource[$Id])
 +         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NullArray

 Cannot index into a null array.
 At C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\remotedesktop\Utility.psm1:54 char:9
 +     if ($_script_resource[$Id])
 +         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException
     + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NullArray

 Get-RDSessionCollection :
     + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Write-Error], WriteErrorException
     + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WriteErrorException,Get-RDSessionCollection

Listing RDS 2012 R2 collections from powershell remote fails / same commandlet from local RDS serevr works fine
Am I missing something ?

MCTS Windows Server Virtualization, Configuration

Hi,

We are hosting Chrome as a remoteapp from a 2012 r2 farm. Things are working fine, but some users can't print from the chrome browser.

When any printout is requested the job is sent to the queue and status stays spooling.  When chrome is closed the job closes.

i am noticing an event 1511 when the users launch chrome.

We are using user profile disks, however their user profile is being used as their favorites and documents are there.

Any ideas?

Best,

S'

UPDATE: sorry this didn't come up in my googling until i got rid of the 2012 r2 and remoteapp bit.  Funnily enough many of these users are using 2012 and distributing as a remoteapp.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=408184#makechanges