OK Scenario:

Host : a Windows 7 Enterprise with SP1, configured as a VM on a 2012R2 Virtualization host with RemoteFX d3d adapter component AND RDP8.0 installed and configured per this article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2592687

Client : a Windows 7 Professional SP1 with an updated client (Shell Version 6.3.9600, Control Version 6.3.9600, Remote Desktop Protocol 8.1 Suppoerted)

problems:

1.the windows 7 host used to add log entries into the RemoteDesktop-TSCore log Admin section upon clients connecting, per this article:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff817575

but it is not doing it anymore after upgrading the RDP to 8. no signs of Event ID 2 in the Microsoft-Windows-RemoteDesktopServices-RdpCoreTS/Admin

2.the client is unable to RDP into the host if the "speed" of the client (the "experience" tab) is set to anything but the "LAN 10MB". it used to work with "Automatically Detect" settings before, until I manually changed it per the above technet article to activate RemoteFX (read the square at the middle-bottom of the article).now, even if I switch it back to automatic speed detection or some other speed, it goes just up to the "Estimating speed and quality" connection phase and then suddenly quits. the only way to get to the remote desktop is to set it back to "LAN 10" manually.

the Remote host just has some "warnings" regarding the previous (non-LAN) attempts, saying that the client is not capable of RemoteFX so RDP Graphic module will be used; no "errors". but as I told you, the client simply quits after the speed estimation.

Hi,

I have a strange problem. Recently we added another host into our 2012 R2 VDI environment. We have approximately 50 desktops deployed over both hosts. The deployment of the collection and adding vm's works fine and I can see desktops from the collection over both. When people connect it always seems to place the users on host1, never on host2.  Host1 has approx 20 desktops running with 0 on host2 right now.

I can't see any errors in the logs, and I'm a bit mystified as to why i do not get any connections on host2? How can i try and track down what it is up to?

I think i've read before that the broker uses active machines/sessions as its basis so 15 vs 0 should definitely be enough to move new sessions to host2 i would think.

Thanks for any pointers...

David Hood www.consilium-uk.com

When using the RD Client app on iOS devices to launch programs from a Remote Resource Feed we always get a language bar appearing on the screen. The language bar doesn't appear when using RemoteApp from a PC or if I login into the server directly, only when using the iOS app.

The language bar also shows the default language as English US which is not the default. In Language screen in Control Panel we only have English UK listed. The Welcome screen and New user setting is also all set to English UK, the only place I can see English US is in the Override Windows display language drop down menu in the Advanced Settings.

I am assuming the language bar is showing because it some how thinks English US is the default but not sure how to remove this. The language on the iOS devices are also English UK.

I have tried re-creating profiles and also actually adding the English US keyboard then removing it but neither worked.

The RemoteApp server is Windows 2012 R2.

Any help/ideas appreciated, thanks.

We have one TS running on Windows 2000. There are over 200 TS users. We are planning to migrate it to Windows 2008 R2. What's the easy way to migrate the roaming profile? Base on this article

There are two methods to migrate roaming profile. "Method 2: Use the Folder Redirection feature to share data between Version 1 and Version 2 user profiles" doesn't "migrate the desktop settings and preferences such as wallpaper because of the differences in the operating systems". That isn't for us.

"Method 1: Use the User State Migration Tool to migrate profile data to the new format (Windows Vista Only)" is recommend that you the User State Migration Tool (USMT) to migrate profile data in the following scenarios:

• You do not use roaming user profiles or folder redirection.
• You want to enable a more full-featured migration of user profile data from Windows 2000-based or from Windows XP-based systems to Windows Vista-based systems.

Note The User State Migraton Tool will not function on Windows Server 2008. 

So the method 1 doesn't work. Any suggestions?

Bob Lin, MCSE & CNE Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net How to Install and Configure Windows, VMware, Virtualization and Cisco on http://www.HowToNetworking.com

Hi 

I have implemented VDI and only session collection remote app are working but not able to sysprep the VM and use it

I have following architect

1. win 2012 R2 DC 64 bit  (RDVH - services is installed)

2. win 2012 R2 DC 64 bit on Hyper-V (RDCB / RDWA / RDSC - services are installed)

3. i have installed / configured win7 SP1  & win 8 prof 64 bit in Hyper-V joined to domain with only OS HDD

Till 3rd point i am successfully. i am also able to successfully run sysprep on both the VM and both shutdown

When i try to rerun again to create the VM it gives the error" The VMHostAgent service timed out while waiting for the newly provisioned virtual desktop to start"

Please help me 

Warm Regards, Niraj Mehta

Hello
I have just received my Dreamspark Premium account. I am a bit concerned on what I can do with it, and what I can't (due to licensing). I have set up Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter and install remote desktop services - however, RD Licensing manager claims that I don't have active license and it will terminate to operate in 120 days. Quick question then: am I, as Dreamspark user, qualified to receive free-of charge 1 user license for RD? I intend to create my own environment in "industry standard" domain, and I just have doubts if I can legally (and most importantly: free of charge) do so. Thanks in advance :)

Dear IT-Pro´s,

I´m currently trying to start an remoteapplication via mstsc with the option "Start the following program on connection."
I´ve tried it in two different labs.

Setups tried (same for both labs):
#1:
TS1 -> mstsc to TS2 with "Start the following program on connection"
Path: C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe
Start in: C:\Windows\System32\

#2:
TS1 -> mstsc to TS2 with "Start the following program on connection"
Path: "C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe"
Start in: "C:\Windows\System32\"

#3:
TS1 -> mstsc to TS2 with "Start the following program on connection"
Path: "%windir%\system32\notepad.exe"
Start in: "%windir%\system32\"

#4:
TS1 -> mstsc to TS2 with "Start the following program on connection"
Path: %windir%\system32\notepad.exe
Start in: %windir%\system32\

One of my labs just terminates the session as soon as it is established (without opening the application) with the error ID 9009 from the source "Desktop Window Manager" and the following description:
"The Desktop Window Manager has exited with code (0xd00002fe)

In the other lab (this one is with two clean installations of Windows 2012 R2 with Remote Desktop Services and no group policies or stuff like that) it is just establishing a normal remote desktop session instead of just opening the program for me. It doesn´t even start the program within the remote desktop.
No errors in this case.

Do you guys have a clue what this could be?

Thanks in advance
GoProo

/e:
I want to reach this goal without setting up a whole RDS-environment, so without RemoteApp.
It was possible with earlier versions of Windows Server.

Dear All,

We have setup a new remote desktop servers from Windows Server 2008 R2. However, we found issue that we still can't find the resolution. There is no issue for the remote desktop clients to login to the servers. however, when the session is idle and the clients try to resume the remote desktop after some time, the screen becomes black. Please advise us on this.

Thanks so much.

Regards,

Henry

Lee

Hi,

I found this topic https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/d03f1ad9-94cf-4fac-8655-ea7eb4345bae/cosigning-a-2008-r2-certificate-authority-for-internalexternal-remoteapp-users?forum=winserverTSdealing with the same issue. I haven't found a clear answer if this is possible and if so how to perform these steps. I have my own enterprise ca up and running well. Of couse "my" own ca certificate is only trusted within my own domain. It's not trusted outside. I also found this hint from the system "A stand-alone or enterprise CA-issued certificate must be co-signed by a trusted public CA that participates in the Microsoft Root Certification Program Members program". This sounds like I could use my enterprise ca certificate requested & issued by a trusted provider (so instead my own in the root position one of the trusted ones). Is that possible?

<p>I'm running Windows Server 2012, we only have 1 server and it's a DC.  I'm trying to RD to the server from my Windows 7 laptop. It was working fine on Friday but when I came in on Monday I got message saying that 'The remote session was disconnnected because there are no Remote Desktop License Servers available to provide a license'

So after a bit of digging I found out my 'grace period' had expired, so ordered a new license which I got today, installed this all ok but still i cannot connect via RD I get the same message....went into the RD License Diagnoser and it said the problem was as follows

'The grace period for the Remote Desktop Session Host server has expired, but the RD Session Host server has not been configured with any license servers. Connections to the RD Session Host server will be denied unless a license server is configured for the RD Session Host server.'

Suggested Resolution as follows

Configure a license server for the Remote Desktop Session Host server. If you have an existing license server, specify that license server for the RD Session Host Server. Otherwise, install RD Licensing on a computer on your network and Configure RD Session Host Server to use it.'

I cannot figure out how to do this as I cannot find the RD Session Host Server tool. 

Can any of you lovely people help me please

Hi All,

I hope someone out there can help us. We have a RDS 2012 deployment with the following configuration (.N.B. all servers are VMs on vSphere 5.5 Enterprise and brand new Dell servers and we have zero network issues as these have been fully checked several times)

2 x RD Connection Brokers (2012 R2)

2 RD Licence Servers (2012 R2)

1 x RD Web Access (2012 R2)

1 x RD Gateway server (2012 R2)

2 x Session collections, one with 10 Session Hosts and one with 4 session hosts (all session hosts are 2012, not R2)

We are experiencing a very very strange situation where the RDG simply stops procession connections randomly. there are absolutely no errors, warnings or critical events logged in ANY of the event logs (and we have trawled through every single one of them!(and the service does not stop or crash in the traditional sense. we also cannot launch the gateway manager console when this happens. if we restart the service then all is fine and users can reconnect. we have even replaced the gateway with a brand new box and the issue still prevails. All clients that connect through the RDG are a minimum on Windows 7 and have at least RDP 8.0 installed

Has anyone else seen this? it is becoming a real issue for us and people are losing faith, as they do

Environment: Session Based

RDSGW1 - Roles: RD Connection Broker (High-Availability Configured), RD Gateway, RD Web Access
RDS1 - Roles: RD Session Host
RDS2 - Roles: RD Session Host

DNS Configured to remoteapp.domain.com (pointing to IP of RDSGW1)

Scenario:

User 1: Connects fine to remoteapp.domain.com.  User 1 is authenticated and launches a remoteapp.  User 1 connects to the application hosted on RDS1 and all is fine and well.  User 1 logs out ofremoteapp.domain.com

I open up RDSGW01 and disallow new connections to RDS1.

User 1: Connects fine to remoteapp.domain.com.  User 1 is authenticated, but is still trying to launch a connection to apps onRDS1.

I shutdown RDS1 as a test to see if RDSGW01 would redirect that client toRDS2 but same result.  The application hangs as it is unavailable onRDS1.

Is there a configuration change that needs to be done in order for that clients connection to fail over toRDS2?

As an aside, it does seem to balance users across both RDS1 andRDS2 remote applications fairly evenly.  I would assume that denying new connections to servers would have done the trick, but not in my experience thus far.

Any takers?

Hi, I'm now deploying Remote Desktop Server with Brokers High Availability and 2 session host servers.

Everything seems fine and everyone can login without any problem but I always receive an error every 15 minutes called

"Config sync failed. Following error occurred: 0x80070057" on two brokers.

Anyone has a idea about that? Thanks.

Hi

I developed an application in visual studio C#, I send raw data to an Epson thermal printer, but the printing is very slow, is unacceptable to deliver my app to an end users with  this printing issue. Printing a receipt.

I read about windows 2008 r2 terminal service having the printing perfomance problems and took some advice from others people having the same issue, but nothing work.

I did the following :

1- disable the render print job on client computer on my windows 7 client.

2- I try to disable the render print job on client computer on my server using gpedit, even though I changed it still active.

should I reboot the server, already reboot the virtual server.

3- send a print test and it is printed very fast.

My platform:

Windows server 2008 r2 Enterprise Sp 1, virtualized server with vmware - a hosted server

Remote desktop connection 6.1.

Easy print is disable.

Generic / Text Only is the driver used.

I'll appreciate any advice to help me, at this time I really need it.

Thanks in advance.

Javier Bisono.

Hi, I've recently deployed 2 x Dell R720 servers running 2012 R2 with NVidia GRID K2 GPU's and am having major issues with enabling RemoteFX, I've had to disable RemoteFX to get things working correctly.

Virtual Machines are Windows 8.1 x86 ENT fully updated with RemoteFX adaptor installed, client machines are either Windows 8/8.1 x64, Windows 7 SP1 X64 with RDP 8.1 updates or ThinPC with RDP 8.1 updates, RDP 8 is enabled via group policy. All drivers and firmware have been updated to the latest possible version available from Dell, I have also tried the NVidea GRID driver directyly from NVidia which actually makes Issue 2 worse

Issues 1, When clients connect the session randomly opens fullscreen but the resolution is set to 1024x768 so appears with black borders, switching the VDI session to windowed mode and then choosing fullscreen sometimes resolves this and sometimes it doesn't.

Issue 2, Sometimes when a client connects the session comes up with a black screen and then the sessions ends, this will happen to one or two users randomly while everyone else is fine and then all of a sudden they can connect without any issue.

Issue 3, Occasionally users log off or disconnects but their session remains active, the session can't be logged off nor shadowed and the virtual machine appears to hang, sometimes just shutting down the virtual machine resolves it other times a full server reboot is required.

I've also got an event viewer filled with errors I can't seem to resolve.

20499 
Remote Desktop Services has taken too long to load the user configuration from server for user administrator

1306 
Remote Desktop Connection Broker Client failed to redirect the user

8462 
Remote Desktop Virtualization Host failed to set zeroconfig information from the virtual machine

This one originally occurred on the template VM and wouldn't allow the creation of the VDI pool, now it appears on almost every pooled VDI machine.

1208 

Remote Desktop Services failed to join the Connection Broker on server .
Error: Current async message was dropped by async dispatcher, because there is a new message which will override the current one.

2056
The Remote Desktop Connection Broker server could not enumerate the targets for the provider named NULL from the database.

20498
Remote Desktop Services has taken too long to complete the client connection

1296

Remote Desktop Connection Broker Client failed while getting redirection packet from Connection Broker.
User : 
Error: Element not found. 

226
RDPClient_SSL: An error was encountered when transitioning from TsSslStateDisconnected to TsSslStateDisconnected in response to 25 (error code 0x8000FFFF).

36
An error occurred when transitioning from CsrConnected in response to EvCsrInitialized. (ErrorCode 0x800708CA)

I've also had various other issues like 25 of 60 pooled machines being created before the rest fail with errors saying the template can't be used to create virtual machines..

Any help with all these issues would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

We have a current RDS 2012 R2 deployment. We are changing hosting vendors and want to completely redo the entire deployment (rather than try to migrated the VMs). What is the best way to go about this?

We do want to continue to use the GPO and user files will be migrated. How can we have the prod and dev RDS environments coexisting on the same domain? 

Just to clarify, we do not want to use any of the existing infrastructure because it is all going to go away. Thank you!

Hope somebody can help. One of our customers is using a 2008R2 TS/RDP environment and published a specific Accounting application which is used by several remote offices. This (Accounting) depends heavily on the "shell working directory" or "Start In".

We are in the proces of migrating this application to a 2012R2 environment and the application has to be published as a RemoteApp. Within the GUI or New-RDRemoteApp there is no option to specify the "shell working directory".

I have already tried to make a .CMD file, publish this as a remoteapp but this does not function also (Application errors).

Is there any way to set the "shell working directory' and publish it as a remoteapp?

Best regards,

Jacob

Hi Technet guys

we have sometimes users which cannot be logged off or the processes be killed. The users are connected to the Windows Terminal Server (W2K8R2) latest patches installed. They connecting with Citrix XenApp 6.5 to the Windows Terminal Server. We did find out that one user is switching between networks and one of the networks is behind a proxy. So when the user switches the network and tries to connect to his session again. His session like dead. It's not possible with Administrator rights to logoff this user or kill his open processes.

The only way to get rid of this problem is to reboot the server. But this is not a good solution

Does anyone of you have expirienced similiar issue, may even just with RDP?