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Term Services 2012R2 Multiple session collections on one Broker Server

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I have built a Term Services deployment  for my sales department and has been running very well for 6 months. I am adding a second session collection for my finance department and am not sure how to handle DNS entries for my remote clients. I do not understand how the broker will send users to correct collection. Do I setup a DNS round robin entry for each session collection?

If so that has caused issues before with older deployments as the connection gets cached and when server is removed from deployment it causes issues with users trying to connect.

Any help would be appreciated. 


Microsoft download site does not display download button when viewing from IE 11 in 2008R2 RDS Session

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I am attempting to build a terminal server where client apps require dotNet framework 4.5.  When I go to the Microsoft download site (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42642) the page takes 20-30 minutes to load.  After it loads, the Download button does not appear like it does when running IE11 from my workstation.  Compatibility view is on, Microsoft.com is in my Trusted sites list.  My Add-ins are disabled.  Server is 2008R2.  None of the download pages on that site have displayed the download button.  All download site pages are painfully slow.  Non-Microsoft sites work fine and downloads work properly.  Our LOB app is web-based and depends on IE for full functionality.  Any suggestions?

TIA

Tom

RDP (Remote Desktop) to Windows 10 without passwords not possible anymore. Bug or feature?

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After upgrading two of my machines to Windows 10 (Education N clean install and Pro N upgrade from Win8.1), I was not able to set up Remote Desktop as I was used to since Windows 7 (maybe this was possible before, too).

I am used to configure Windows to allow RDP connections as a user without password (home usage only). Apparently this is not working anymore after upgrading to Windows 10. (I have enabled this by modifying secpol.msc 's security policies. Further informations provided if needed).

With the "no password" setup i get immediatly disconnected by the local machine which seems to auto login by itself after connecting via RDP. The only solution I managed to find so far was to set up a password. 

Is this a bug or a feature?

Cheers

Slow RDP on Windows SErver 2012 R2 (VMware 5.5)

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Hi

I'm struggling with a performance issue on Windows Server 2012 R2 for last few days. I've already went through the number of solutions found online as well as couple remote sessions with VMware support.
VMware is convinced that this issues isn't related to the hypervisor, which seems true to me as the issue isn't affecting any of the 2008 servers. Problem is also present on 2012 R2 server regardless of the VM location (any host, any datastore) or VMware hardware version (tested on 8 - 10).

The issue itself is simple. Whenever any graphically intense content is opened on any of our Windows Server 2012 R2, the refresh rate (or FPS if you like) over RDP is dropping down dramatically. This is affecting all of our 2012 R2 servers, the other boxes running 2008 or SBS seems fine. Two of the affected servers are running Citrix XenApp 7.6 and the same issue can be observed through ICA session (issue doesn't affect ICA or RDP running on Windows Server 2008).

I've already configured 2012 visual effects for optimal performance, disabled task offloading, reduced colour depth, optimised Citrix policies (on servers running Citrix) and few more things including latest Windows Updates. No luck.

Problem is also affecting both LAN and WAN users. Sometimes the delay is as bad as 5-10 seconds and affecting web browsers, Outlook, Word, pretty much anything that is displaying more than couple images and text. For example Google website and search results are OK. Scrolling through the results is almost normal, typing in the address bar also fine. However as soon as anything like MSN.com or BBC website is opened the refresh rate is terrible until the browser window, MS Word or Outlook is closed.

We are using latest RDP and Citrix client software. RDP 8 have UDP enabled, RAM, CPU and disk IOPs on both clients and servers are low and not causing any problems, issue is affecting RDP to Windows Server 2012 R2 from Windows 7 SP1, 8, 8.1, Android and Windows Mobile clients.

On top of that, we are running two different VMware 5.5U2 clusters in two separate data centres. Both are using different hardware configuration and again we only see the problem on 2012 servers. Also the issue doesn't seems to be affecting 3rd party software such as TeamViewer on 2012 R2. TeamViewer over WAN gives us much better frame rate than RDP over gigabit LAN.

Any help and suggestions would be much appreciated.


External Users can connect to RDWEB but Remote Apps stuck on Black Screen

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I have an issue where some external users can connect to RDWeb but when they launch a remote app, the connection never completes. If you click "Show Details" the screen is black. Normally you would see the blue logon screen (loading settings, etc.).

This only happens for random clients. Others get in just fine. To test, I used a client account from home and everything worked fine. So it has to be something with their network. I suspect port 3391 UDP is not open thought I told their IT person that port 3391 UDP and port 443 TCP need to be opened.

I have tried all the usual stuff, making sure Windows is completely updated, RDP client is updated, disabling persistent bitmap caching, changing resolution, having the user click CTRL+ALT+END (nothing happens because the session isn't established yet).

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

Thanks!

changing the way we access remote app website

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Hi

1. can we use http instead of https for remoteapp in server 2012 R2? We are using it a secured VPN and its now two layers of security and slowing it down.

 2. Is there any way that we force clients to use UDP over https for getting access to the RDWebAccess?


**************** Sincerely Yours Ziyaei Ali *****************

Traffic flow - Clients/Connection Broker/RD Web App/Session Hosts - Post connection

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Hi

I have had a dig around, but unfortunately I cannot find an answer to this question.

I would like to understand the traffic flow between the clients and the Connection Bbroker/RD Web Server after a connection to a session host (both RDP and RemoteApp) has been established. In this case the RD environment would all be 2012R2 and the clients would be Windows 7 or newer.

I am asking this as we have an established Connection Broker/RD Web Server setup that exists in the UK and I have to stand up a new "collection" of session hosts in Asia. Once the Connection Broker and RD Web App servers have identified the session host the client should connect to, is all traffic then purely between the client and the session host (barring any outages)

If anyone can point me to a TechNet document about this I will be very grateful.

Thanks

Do Remote Apps on win2012 support anynomous login?

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Hi All,

I have a Win2012R2 server and have remote apps services.

I have publish it to client to use but some of them say it is trouble to login two times (Login RDWEB and remote desktop client).

May I know if we can by pass the authorization of RDWEB and direct show all icon on the web?

I find Win2008 has this on remote apps but not sure it can be on win2012R2.

May I know signle sign-on can let the user to use domain account for the remote desktop?

is it need to trust the website's cert, set IE option to logon and edit the group policy to allow delgration to use exist account to login?

Thanks a lot.

Best Regards,

Zenchiu


RDSH 2012 Intermittent freezing with ThinClient RDP version 8

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We recently built a 3 node RDSH 2012 farm with a connection broker. We also started piloting test users on this farm. We are seeing the following strange behavior:

  • Connections with Win10 (RDP10) are smooth and working fine the whole day
  • Connections with ThinClients (RDP8) intermittently freeze and have a black screen but will recover after a few seconds or minutes

Has anybody else seen this before? We believe it is due to either the RDP8 or some settings in the mstsc console that will cause this. Before one by one checking all the available settings and possibilities I wanted to check with you to see if anyone experienced a similar issue and potentially has some advice.

RDS 2012 R2 and Outlook 2013 Session

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Hi,

I have run into a problems regaring Outlook attachment on our RDS 2012 R2.

If a user starts outlook, create a new e-mail and use the button "Attach file" thing goes SLOW.
The user will try to attach a file from his home directory(network share) Z:\something(pdf or word).
A dialog pop up is showen:
Laster ned(norwegian) = Downloading.
For a file on 81 kB takes around 10 secounds.

BUT! if a try to "drag-drop" the same file into to the e-mail it goes Instant!

this problem only happens when the user try to use the Attachment buttton in Outlook:

I did run a test on my local computer to a network share and every thing is fine there.
so i think this is only related to the RDS.

About the user:
- YES the user have folder redirect. redirecting to his home directory. (Appdata is not redirected)

- This have worked before

- The Folder z:\ is located on a Filserver with all the permission needed.

This have been done.

  • - Restart of the server
  • Updateing Windows server 2012 R2 to lates patch
  • updating Office 2013 pro Plus
  • Disable Addons
  • Disable antivirus
  • Trying to start in safe mode.

If any one have run into this problems before on RDS please replay.

all the best

Martin




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How do I preserve Windows Explorer views - Server 2012 RDSH

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Can anyone advise on how I can preserve a user's Windows Explorer view which is not preserved after log off.

I saw this tech article which involves editing the registry.

MS Explorer fix

If this is correct, would I actually edit the HKLM hive instead?

Default green tick disappeared

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the default green tick on the printer on device and printers has disappeared and my boss wants me to find a solution to it we're running Windows Server 2012 R2 anyone that can help would be great. I need to finish this because it is happening to everyone at work

PLEASE HELP!!!!

updated win10 to 1511 - can't remote desktop to server - credentials fail

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worked OK this morning

updated win10 - now credentials fail

 mark

RemoteApps not refreshing in RDWeb - RDS 2012 R2

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Hi folks,

We have just installed a new RDS environment without any HA roles (just single Connection Broker, RD Web, RD Session Host). Everything is working well.

The issue we now have is, that RDWeb not refreshes the assigned apps in a proper time. If we add users to an AD Group for assigning the RemoteApp it takes 10-15 minutes to get the apps visible on RDWeb.

First we thought to have some AD replication issues but there are no errors. So we started to investigate. If we do a IISreste /noforce on the RDWeb Server, all the published applications are appearing or disappearing immediatelydepending on the membership of the AD Groups.

Any suggestion on this?

Cheers,
Al

Remote Desktop Services Deployment Ports

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Hi,

I'm in an environment where the firewall is very strict (as in every port is closed unless requested to be opened).

When deploying my 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Farm through PowerShell I'm getting to the point where I am making the Session Host server a member of a Farm using this code:

##Imports Remote Desktop Services Module to enable config of RDS
Import-Module RemoteDesktopServices

##Configures Remote Desktop Server to be a member of a Farm
cd RDS:\RDSConfiguration\ConnectionBrokerSettings
$IP = dir -Path RDS:\RDSConfiguration\ConnectionBrokerSettings\RedirectableAddresses
Set-Item ServerPurpose -value 3 -ConnectionBroker "BROKER-Server" -FarmName "FARM NAME" -IPAddressRedirection 1 -CurrentRedirectableAddresses $IP.name

When running this is get an error stating that access is denied. If I open up all TCP Ports to the Broker it works, so I'm wondering if anyone knows which ports its using. I have done some research and found this article: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/16164.which-ports-are-used-by-a-rds-2012-deployment.aspx I know this is for 2012 R2 but I cant find anything for 2008 R2. I've opened these ports and it still doesn't work, so I must be missing something.

Any clues would be greatly appreciated....

Cheers,

Chris



Publishing Web application recommendation

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Hi!

We have a hyper-v HP Server with Nvidia GPU which we need to use for publishing a web application on a VM. As per our knowledge it is not possible to assign GPU to VMs having Server OS. In this case we have two options, either we create separate windows 8.1 Enterprise VMs for every user who needs to use that application or we install the GPU on a separate physical server, install windows server OS and use Remote Desktop Services to let users use that application.

Which option is better and is there any other solution. The application is highly graphical and needs a good VGA. That's why we decided to let users use it directly on the server.

Thanks.

how to force use of 32-bi mstsc.exe in Windows 10 (64-bit)

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Hello,

in Windows 8.1 and Win7 I found a solution by Setting Windir= '"empty". But in Windows 10 "start c:\windows\syswow64\mstsc.exe starts the c:\windows\system32\mstsc.exe

Losing connection to RDS server when working at home and at the office

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Good day,

Some users are sometimes losing their RDP connection after mere minutes, even when the connection has been re-established 

The network speeds of a user at home are:

-30 Mbps Down
-39 Mbps Up

We have a policy saying that 'we don't support people that work at home' but it still makes me curious since the problem persists when people are working at the office.

Thanks in regard!


2012 R2 RDS Temporary Profile issue

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I have set up a standard 3 node 2012 R2 RDS for testing. All virtualized on VMware ESXi 5.0. I have a connection Broker, session host, and web access server. I have published several applications and I can access them without a problem. Here is my issue:

When I try to log on to my session host server either locally or thru RDP, I am always logged in with a Temporary profile. It does not mater what user account I use. Even logging on locally as the administrator I get a temporary profile.

All windows updates are installed and current.

I have removed the server from the domain, deleted the account, and rejoined it to the domain.

I have deleted all .bak registry entries from here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

There is a hotfix here for a similar issue on 2012 but it does not apply to 2012 R2

The only event viewer errors are:

1515 (Windows has backed up this user profile. Windows will automatically try to use the backup profile the next time this user logs on.)

1511 (Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off.)

Any suggestions to resolve would be greatly appreciated.


Russ

Port 3389 not listening

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Windows Server 2003R2. Terminal Services is installed and started. Remote Desktop is Enabled. In the Terminal Services Manager session window, RDP-TCP is shown as being in a listening state. But when I run netstat -a, port 3389 does not show up. RD client cannot connect. Telnet or ssh to that port does not connect.

TCP is working fine: I can use logmein to view the server; I can VPN to the server, I can look at SMB shares once the VPN is up. No TCP filtering is active. The Windows Firewall is not active.

How can I get port 3389 going and be able to RDP in?

 

The registry is still showing port 3389 as the listening port.

I have removed and re-created the RDP-tcp port without any trouble and without success. The properties are set on defaults.

Remote Desktop devices in the device manager show as operating fine.

It used to work fine and just recently (sometime in January) it stopped working. As far as I know, no new software was installed at that time.

I have reviewed a bunch of stuff found in Google but none of it seems to help, so far.

 

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