I have two RDS servers running Server 2012, and since a couple of days users are reporting they get disconnected often. In the eventlogs, I found a couple of events where a user was disconnected without further information. I also found a lot of "Failed to create KVP sessions string" events. I couldn't find any relevant information about this event, but it appears the most at moments when users are being disconnected from the RDS server.

This is the event:

Log Name:      Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-RemoteConnectionManager/Operational
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-RemoteConnectionManager
Date:          3/12/2013 10:01:26 AM
Event ID:      1152
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:     
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      TS02.contoso.com
Description:
Failed to create KVP sessions string. Error Code 0x8007007A
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-RemoteConnectionManager" Guid="{C76BAA63-AE81-421C-B425-340B4B24157F}" />
    <EventID>1152</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x1000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-03-12T09:01:26.771581100Z" />
    <EventRecordID>11344</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="836" ThreadID="840" />
    <Channel>Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-RemoteConnectionManager/Operational</Channel>
    <Computer>TS02.contoso.com</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
  </System>
  <UserData>
    <EventXML xmlns="Event_NS">
      <Param1>2147942522</Param1>
    </EventXML>
  </UserData>
</Event>

Does someone have any idea what might cause this error? Thanks!

Hello,

When I created my Virtual Desktop Collection I assigned a user to an existing VM.

When I attempt to connect via RDP to the connection broker that hosts that deployment I am unable to connect error states:

The connection was denied because the user account is not authorized for remote login

But this error is indicating that the user is attempting to RDP directly to the server and not the connection broker service

How am I able to assign a Personal VM to a User and have the connection broker forward that user to the correct VM?

Hi all

I am trying to create a pooled collection from a master vm that has been sysprep'd and it has all the necessary access to the domain.

I get the following error."A new virtual desktop could not be created from the virtual desktop template. Verify that all the hyper-v servers in the deployment have the correct network configuration and available hardware resources, then try again."

At the moment it just a test case as i want to see if we can implement this solution to a specific location.

In this test case i am only trying to create 2 vm's for the collection.In a previous attempt i tested with 6 and it created the 1st vm but the rest failed to create.The deployment was created with the quick start roles.

The server in question has server 2012 datacenter installed.

this is the details of the one log file below:

<rdvp:RDVProvisioning xmlns:rdvp="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <rdvp:ProvisionPoolReport>
    <rdvp:Job>
      <rdvp:Id>0eb42c43-5b8a-4346-b3f5-e707d6c3af9c</rdvp:Id>
      <rdvp:Action>Create</rdvp:Action>
      <rdvp:Status>Completed</rdvp:Status>
      <rdvp:ErrorCode>0x0</rdvp:ErrorCode>
      <rdvp:ErrorDescription>None</rdvp:ErrorDescription>
      <rdvp:StartTime>06/24/2013 04:11:54 PM</rdvp:StartTime>
      <rdvp:LastModifiedTime>06/24/2013 04:16:20 PM</rdvp:LastModifiedTime>
    </rdvp:Job>
    <rdvp:Pool>
      <rdvp:Name>StudentIT</rdvp:Name>
      <rdvp:Version>1.0</rdvp:Version>
    </rdvp:Pool>
    <rdvp:HyperVHosts>
      <rdvp:HyperVHost>
        <rdvp:Name>***************</rdvp:Name>
        <rdvp:NumberRequested>2</rdvp:NumberRequested>
        <rdvp:NumberCompleted>2</rdvp:NumberCompleted>
        <rdvp:HostInitialization>
          <rdvp:Status>Failed</rdvp:Status>
          <rdvp:ErrorCode>0x8813020c</rdvp:ErrorCode>
          <rdvp:ErrorDescription>Task: To initialize pool creation at VMHostAgent: failed. Result of task [0x8813020c]</rdvp:ErrorDescription>
        </rdvp:HostInitialization>
        <rdvp:Vm>
          <rdvp:Name>STITVM-1</rdvp:Name>
          <rdvp:Status>Failed</rdvp:Status>
          <rdvp:ErrorCode>0x88130106</rdvp:ErrorCode>
          <rdvp:ErrorDescription>Job cancelled</rdvp:ErrorDescription>
          <rdvp:StartTime />
          <rdvp:EndTime>06/24/2013 04:16:20 PM</rdvp:EndTime>
        </rdvp:Vm>
        <rdvp:Vm>
          <rdvp:Name>STITVM-0</rdvp:Name>
          <rdvp:Status>Failed</rdvp:Status>
          <rdvp:ErrorCode>0x88130106</rdvp:ErrorCode>
          <rdvp:ErrorDescription>Job cancelled</rdvp:ErrorDescription>
          <rdvp:StartTime />
          <rdvp:EndTime>06/24/2013 04:16:20 PM</rdvp:EndTime>
        </rdvp:Vm>
      </rdvp:HyperVHost>
    </rdvp:HyperVHosts>
  </rdvp:ProvisionPoolReport>
</rdvp:RDVProvisioning>

regards

Hayden

IT is alive

I have a terminal server which is running Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard and I have the indexing turned on for users with Cached Exchange mode in Outlook.

The issue is that the indexing counter was counting up and then after a couple of days it is now counting down, not sure if this is normal or if I should do anything to the process.

Hi,

We have applied clip board redirection setting on Virtual Machines using GPO, but still users are not able to copy & paste between Host Machine & Virtual Machine, i had asked users to check Clip Board setting in remote desktop client but as per latest update users are using Connection Broker,

Could someone please help.

MCP, MCTS

Good day all,

Trying to work VDI in a lab environment. Got my lab domain, virtual DC, physical hyper v host with RDS session host, virtualisation host, broker and a Windows 8 sysprepped vm installed.

I am running a server 2012 environment. 

Manage

Add Roles

Remote Desktop Services Installation

I select the physical host as the machine to use and point to the win8.vhdx (tried from both the RDSVirtualisationTemplate folder and otherwise)

At the end of the installation is fails at Virtual desktop template

"Unable to create reference virtual desktop. Object reference not set to the instance of an object"

No errors show up in Event viewer, What does this mean?

A problem with the VHD?

I have a VM as broker/web access/licensing server. I have two physical hosts as session hosts.

When I try to add the physical hosts as session hosts, I get an error that the collection completed with errors - I have no idea where the log files are to decipher what these errors are. 

On the session hosts, I can connect to them but get an error that they do not see the licensing server even though it is configured in the collection properties.

Also, if I enable user profile disks, I get an error that a temporary profile is created and the vhd is named TEMP.

Any ideas? I'm two days into this.

Hi Everyone,

I have a client using Windows Server 2012 RDS (Hyper-V Virtual Machine). When using RemoteApp they open an email via outlook (maximised by default) The screen flickers between the email and inbox for about 10 seconds. If they open the email (not maximised by default) there is no flicker. Other apps such as Word and Excel are also affected to a lesser extent. 

They run about 20 client machines (mixture of Windows XP and Windows 7 SP1). The Windows 7 machines have been updated to RDP8. But all machines experience the flicker. We have set users to Basic themes and disabled shadows and animations. We have also update all video card drivers on the clients.

We have setup UDP support for Remote FX via the 2012 RDS Gateway and this works well under a full non RemoteApp session (UDP enabled in the connection bar). Interestingly this flicker does not occur under a full RDS session.

Has anyone got any ideas what may be causing this flicker??

Many Thanks!

I have created a VPC on amazon AWS where I installed 2 windows 2012 servers on a public subnet.

In the first instance I installed Active Directory (DC-SERVER: windows 2012 server )  

In the second instance (REMOTEAPP-SERVER: windows 2012 server). I joined the second REMOTEAPP-SERVER to the domain successfully.

On  REMOTEAPP-SERVER I tried to install Remote Desktop Services and it fails all the time in installing RD Connection Broker service Role. The other 2 roles that comes after RD Web access and RD Session host gets canceled because of the failure.

I have tried all the combination from Role-based installation and Remote Desktop Service Installation ( both quick and standard deployment) 

The first error I received talks about the server need to restart - which I did and re-install the error but still getting the error. then, the error went away and I started to get a different error: Unable to install the role services.

What possibly preventing a successful installation? is it because it is a virtual machine? I have done it without a problem on windows 2008 R2

Thank you for your help

Hello,

I'm looking into the purchase of user CAL's for our 2008 R2 environment. I would buy 2012 CALs as it seems silly to buy old stuff. I have a couple of questions:

• Can I use 2012 CAL's in our current 2008 R2 environment? (2008 R2 terminal servers and license server)
  It seems that this is possible (link)
• will there be a new version of the CAL's with server 2012 R2 (as happened with 2008 and 2008 R2?). If so, will I be able to upgrade my current 2012 CAL's?
• I know that with 2008 R2 cals and license server, there is no hard enforcing of the user CALs limit (unlike device CALs). Will this be the same in a 2012 environment? This is very useful for implementing an environment where the amount of unique users is not initially known.
  

Thank you!

Hello I'm not being able to install RD Connection Broker with High Availability.

The RDS deployment consists on two servers running win2012

server1 - RDWA and RDG

server2 - RDSH and RDCB

The SQL server 2012 that I'm using is installed on server2 itself and had to be installed after the RDS otherwise the SQL installation failed and had to be done using the RD-install. It's working fine , I've applications that run on it.

As when configuring RDCB HA "both" RDCB hosts access directly to the SQL DB to create a new database, their accounts need to be authenticated as a SQL login with dbcreator role.

1 step: I checked a straight forward installation_

Installing and Configuring RD Connection Broker High Availability in Windows Server 2012

Failed

2 step: I checked an installation where my problem happened.

I checked RD Connection Broker HA – SQL Permissions
Added the host to a domain group and added the group as an SQL login, SQL authentication failed.

4 step: Google for how to create SQL login for a computer account and  I added it by executing:

“CREATE LOGIN [MyDomain\MyComputer$]FROM WINDOWS”

Also tried to use Add-ADcomputerServiceAccount without success.

3 step: I ended here

Taking a closer look at RD Connection Broker High Availability in Windows Server 2012

Where I verified that none of the following explanations were correct:

• The SQL Server Native client is not installed
• A firewall is blocking SQL Access from the RD Connection Broker (port 1433)
• The incorrect SQL Server Native Client version is specified
• An incorrect SQL Server name is specified

I tried several variations of the string to use but this is the one I think it's correct:

DRIVER=SQL Server Native Client 11.0;SERVER=WIN2012-1;Trusted_Connection=Yes;APP=Remote Desktop Services Connection Broker;Database=RDCB

The error registered on SQL is:

"Message
Login failed for user 'RDS\WIN2012-1$'. Reason: Could not find a login matching the name provided. [CLIENT: <local machine>]"

I tried to connect via ODBC with an existing username an it succeeded.

The problem seems to be with the computer account not existing as an SQL login...the thing is that it exists.

I need to set this up in order to be able to change the RDCB FQDN to a public FQDN.

How were you guys able to overcome this? Did you faced this at all?

Thanks,

David

I've been using Remote Desktop to manage a remote Windows 2003 server for many years. It has been a very helpful tool.

I have used different client's windows versions during these years. I am using Windows 8 since it became available to MSDN subscribers.

Ever since I installed May 2013 Windows updates I began experiencing connection problems with my remote  Windows Server 2003.

It seems there is some kind of timeout. The connection windows shows the messages "Initiating..." and "Configuring..." twice and then presents the error message "This computer can't connect to the remote computer."

If I try again and again, eventually I am able to connect.

I have searched both client and server event viewer for the problem, but I have not found anything useful.

Any ideas?

I am unable to start a service on Windows server 2008 R2, After starting the service it stops again. No errors... any ideas?

I am running a Server 2008 TS farm with 8 servers and i am having the same issue with all of them.  When any user open's Word part of Office 2007 the program crashes.  I have disabled DEP as recommend by some other people that had this same issue but that has not resolved the issue for me.  It is not affecting other MS Office programs just word.  I have also removed and re installed Word and that has not helped. 

Have a dandy here....

I have added two nodes to a VH cluster.. all is well with clustering etc.. I then attempt to add the Virtualization Host role.. which states the machine must be restarted..

I agree.. the machine indicates it is installing features as it shuts down.. then on reboot it indicates preparing to configure windows, then it says its configuring windows features. Then it state its notifying services that windows is shutting down and restarts again.

On the next startup again it says preparing to configure windows do not turn off your computer, then it says its configuring windows updates,  it counts up with a percentage .. then finally says  "Failure configuring Windows Updates Reverting Changes do not turn off your computer" 

Once again it reboots.. and Voila !!!!    No Role is installed and I'm back to square one..   Lovely ya ?

Any ideas?

I have run DISM to check for update corruption,  I have searched the logs the only item I find is that a WER report was created I look in the WER folder items and see nothing that is obvious. What is interesting is that this happens with BOTH new servers not just one.. they were built from scratch and not using any bare metal installation.

Below is the WER in event log:

I am looking for a way to change the server name you connect to (on the Session Host), like you could in 2008 R2. Pictures a worth a thousand words, so I've attached a picture of exactly what I am looking for:

The servers are setup so their names are servername.domain.local, but since they will be facing outwards (with a RD Gateway between them, of course) and non-domain members will be accessing them, we need a way to change the "server name" to servername.domain.com (.dk actually, but you get the point), so the certificate applies to it.

Currently, connecting looks like this:

We don't want our customers getting this dialog box. Any help is appreciated.

I have set up remote desktop services 2012, gateway and web access all one the same server apart from the licensing server which is separate. The former exists in the DMZ

We want to use it to connect to internal computers using the 2nd link in RDWeb connect to a remote computer

When doing this via RDWeb we have to

1) log into RDWeb

2) After selecting to connect to computer x we are prompted to log into remote desktop gateway with a windows logon box

3) after that we have to then reprovide the password for the user account

Why??? I was hoping logging into RDWeb would be enough

Any ideas?

Thanks

Robbie

Hi to all,

we have a NLB Remote Desktop Farm (2 node Windows 2008 r2 SP1) and another server (Windows 2008 r2 sp1 with RDGW, RDWA and RDCB).

The users access the applications via remote desktop web access that are configured with user assignment.

All remote app have a security group associated for to control access to the application on web site.

If we change the user assignment adding or removing some users directly on RemoteAPP manager the change is replicated on web server (RDWA) immediately.

If I try to add o remove a user on the security group associated to the RemoteAPP (from Active Directory Users and Computers)  the change doesn't work or is applied after some time. A reboot of the RDWA resolve immediately the issue.

Can you give me some advice how to resolve the issue or otherwise a possible workaround?
thank you.

Daniele Castelli 

Daniele Castelli

I need to set a test lab with MS Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. I have no free hardware server which could support Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, so I have to stick to Windows Server 2008 R2.

I've set up all the components needed to support MS VDI: virtualization host (Windows Server 2008 R2), Connection Broker server (Windows Server 2008 R2 as well) and several VMs with Windows 7. I've configured Connection Broker and assigned a personal desktop to an user. All the servers are joined to AD and have certificates generated by domain enterprise CA.

I can access assigned workstation using RDWeb portal by clicking on "My Desktop" item. However, I cannot access it when entering Connection Broker server name into address field of Terminal Services Client. The client connects to the server, then gets redirected to the assigned workstation, and then shows the following error message:

"The connection cannot be completed because the remote computer that was reached is not the one you specified. This could be caused by an outdated entry in the DNS cache. Try using the IP address of the computer instead of the name."

This message is generated on Windows 7 client. On Windows 8 workstation the message contains more information:

"Remote Desktop Connection cannot connect to the remote computer.

The remote computer vdi.test.local that you are trying to connect to is redirecting you to another remote computer named WS01.test.local. Remote Desktop Connection cannot verify that the computers belong to the same RD Session Host server farm. You must use the farm name, not the computer name, when you connect to an RD Session Host server farm."

I've found several topics and TechNet articles discussing the similar issues, but they all are referincing classic TS server farms, not VDI infrastructure. There is no farm name to that I can connect, and I cannot configure RDP connection settings on virtual desktops. Just in case I tried to clear local DNS cache on all workstations and servers involved, but to no luck.