Hi all,

One of the server is getting hung in our environment, On hung state the application team is able to ping and not able to RDP the server and after some time the issue getting auto resolved.  

Based on the System Event log , I could able to see the logs with Event ID of 5776 and in details "failed to create/open file system32 config netlogon.ftl with the following error": there is not enough space on the disk"

I have checked the space in C: Drive and the drive having 10GB of free space. Now the application team is asking the root cause of the issue 

Details

Operating system :  Windows 2008

Platform : Virtual 

Please advise techies 

SK

Hello,

We are building a RDS Deployment with a Gateway and multiple Session Hosts (2012 R2). It's clear for me, that we need a certificate of a public CA for the Gateway Server for external users. But do we also need a public CA cert for every SH or can we use Certs from out AD CA? Because for my understanding, it's the GW that establishes the connection to the SH (both in same AD), and thus the SH certificate should be trusted by the GW. Can anyone advise please?

Thanks a lot

Jan

hello everyone

I have a question regarding Home Folder of TS Users. A clients has 4 RD Servers with 1 Farm. Roaming Profiles enable and stored in network share. All users instructed to NOT KEEP their fiels and important folders in home folder, but every user keep his files in that folder. Some users has more that 10G files in it, and while the logging in (logoff) RD Server, login/logoff  time takes very long, because proile folder strored in RD server tries to sync with usrname.V2 folder stored in network share

Now I have an idea to restrict users to keep files with logon script that will withdraw write permission to that folder.... So is this good idea or you can suggest something better? What is the best practices? 

Vusal M. Dadashzadeh

RDS 2012 R2 with 1 GW, 1 CB and 3 SH's. 2 collections and less than 10 users (at the moment). This happens to every user. So, what appears to be, once a day the GW becomes unresponsive. You can't login (it hangs at Please wait....). You can't stop the VM with stop-vm <vm-name>. No one can connect from external (get can not connect to computer). All i can do is turn off from hyper-v manager. Upon reboot, everyone can connect. Here windows logs->application:

Warning3/12/2016 2:46:06 AMASP.NET 4.0.30319.01309Web Event

Event code: 3005
Event message: An unhandled exception has occurred.
Event time: 3/12/2016 2:46:06 AM
Event time (UTC): 3/12/2016 7:46:06 AM
Event ID: 35e264785287416cbffae5de6d0edf3e
Event sequence: 428
Event occurrence: 1
Event detail code: 0

Application information:
    Application domain: /LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT/RDWeb/Feed-2-131022325701111364
    Trust level: Full
    Application Virtual Path: /RDWeb/Feed
    Application Path: C:\Windows\Web\RDWeb\Feed\
    Machine name: RDGateway

Process information:
    Process ID: 4224
    Process name: w3wp.exe
    Account name: IIS APPPOOL\RDWebAccess

Exception information:
    Exception type: NullReferenceException
    Exception message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at Microsoft.TerminalServices.Publishing.Portal.RWSCPUBAccessor.PrepareRdpFile(String& rdp_contents, String fileExtension, String ts_name, String alias, String& rdp_file_url, String& rdp_file_name, DateTime requestTime)
   at Microsoft.TerminalServices.Publishing.Portal.RWSCPUBAccessor.ProcessPublishedApp(String alias, String name, String resourceFile, String fileExtension, Byte[] iconContents, UInt32 pceIconSize, Int32 resourceType, FileExtensionInfo[] fileAssociations, String[] folderNames, String securityDescriptor, ArrayList& apps, DateTime requestTime, UInt64 lastUpdateTime)
   at Microsoft.TerminalServices.Publishing.Portal.RWSCPUBAccessor.GetFreshApps(DateTime requestTime)
   at Microsoft.TerminalServices.Publishing.Portal.RWSCPUBAccessor.OnCacheItemRemoved(String key, Object value, CacheItemRemovedReason removedReason)
   at System.Web.Caching.CacheEntry.CallCacheItemRemovedCallback(CacheItemRemovedCallback callback, CacheItemRemovedReason reason)



Request information:
    Request URL:
    Request path:
    User host address:
    User:
    Is authenticated: False
    Authentication Type:
    Thread account name: IIS APPPOOL\RDWebAccess

Thread information:
    Thread ID: 172
    Thread account name: IIS APPPOOL\RDWebAccess
    Is impersonating: False
    Stack trace:    at Microsoft.TerminalServices.Publishing.Portal.RWSCPUBAccessor.PrepareRdpFile(String& rdp_contents, String fileExtension, String ts_name, String alias, String& rdp_file_url, String& rdp_file_name, DateTime requestTime)
   at Microsoft.TerminalServices.Publishing.Portal.RWSCPUBAccessor.ProcessPublishedApp(String alias, String name, String resourceFile, String fileExtension, Byte[] iconContents, UInt32 pceIconSize, Int32 resourceType, FileExtensionInfo[] fileAssociations, String[] folderNames, String securityDescriptor, ArrayList& apps, DateTime requestTime, UInt64 lastUpdateTime)
   at Microsoft.TerminalServices.Publishing.Portal.RWSCPUBAccessor.GetFreshApps(DateTime requestTime)
   at Microsoft.TerminalServices.Publishing.Portal.RWSCPUBAccessor.OnCacheItemRemoved(String key, Object value, CacheItemRemovedReason removedReason)
   at System.Web.Caching.CacheEntry.CallCacheItemRemovedCallback(CacheItemRemovedCallback callback, CacheItemRemovedReason reason)


Custom event details: 

Error3/11/2016 5:26:14 PMESENT455Logging/Recovery

svchost (3576) Error -1032 (0xfffffbf8) occurred while opening logfile C:\Windows\system32\LogFiles\Sum\Api.log

Warning3/12/2016 3:34:23 AMVSS31None

Volume Shadow Copy Service Warning: A writer with name System Writer and ID {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220} waited 4294967 seconds for in-progress calls to complete before shutting down. 

Error3/12/2016 9:16:24 AMPerflib1008None

The Open Procedure for service "BITS" in DLL "C:\Windows\System32\bitsperf.dll" failed. Performance data for this service will not be available. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the error code

Warning3/12/2016 9:19:21 AMWinlogon6005None

The winlogon notification subscriber <Profiles> is taking long time to handle the notification event (Logon).

Here is Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-Gateway/Admin:

Error3/5/2016 11:19:20 PMTerminalServices-Gateway523(4)

The connection authorization policy "RDG_CAP_AllUsers" could not be created. The following error occurred: "183".

But there is already a RDG_CAP_AllUsers.........

Error3/5/2016 11:19:21 PMTerminalServices-Gateway543(5)

The resource authorization policy (RAP) "RDG_AllDomainComputers" could not be created. The following error occurred: "183". To resolve this issue, ensure that you have configured RAP settings correctly and set the correct value and permissions for the RAP.xml file and the RAPStore registry key.

But this policy already exists.........

Here is Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-Gateway/Operational:

Nothing but information in here........

Here is Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-RemoteConnectionManager/Admin:

Warning3/12/2016 10:02:09 AMTerminalServices-RemoteConnectionManager20499None

Remote Desktop Services has taken too long to load the user configuration from server \\server.domain.com for user administrator

This appears to be from when the GW was in a non-responsive state according to the time stamp......

I scanned for viruses and nothing was found (used malwarebytes). Any ideas?

We try to open two Virtual Channels with the same name on a Windows Server 2012 with two WTSVirtualChannelOpen(WTS_CURRENT_SERVER, WTS_CURRENT_SESSION, "name") calls from within a single process.

While the first call succeeds, the second call always hangs for 10 seconds and returns NULL. Afterwards called GetLastError returns 0x80004005 (unspecified error).

This problem only happens on Server 2012, the same code works without problems on Server 2003 and 2008, using the same client.

Firewall is disabled (personal and domain).

•Did anything change between Server 2008 and Server 2012 that would cause such an "unspecified error"?
•Is there any way to get more detailed information on the cause of the error (e.g. activate logging on WTS... functionality)?
Any answers are appreciated ...

Andreas

PS: There seem to be several related issues reported e.g. in unanswered threads http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowssdk/thread/b0705799-4a22-43e8-b5e5-d0b1f60e1cad and http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowssdk/thread/0823f44f-785b-4c5c-b809-61a4a74327e2

So I have been researching all over and having some trouble finding some details on the subject of RD Gateway & RD Web and how (or if) they work together.

I am come from a Citrix background and I am used to a Citrix NetScaler / StoreFront deployment. The Netscaler providing the HTTPS encryption proxying to the StoreFront which is the web interface where a user can launch a full desktop or application. I am curious if RDS works in a similar fashion, with RDS Gateway playing the role of NetScaler & RDS Web playing the role of StoreFront.

I am finding mixed information on this subject. Am I completely wrong and the two are independent of each other?

Is RDS Web used for the LAN only? RDS Gateway used for WAN access and only allowing access from an RDP client?

I have read it is best to have these two roles co-exist on the same machine (which I have done). I also plan to use an externally trusted SSL for my external FQDN remote.mydomain.com

Any information or articles that can me figure this out will be greatly appreciated!

In our production environment, we currently run Provision/vWorkspace to publish applications to users via an HTTP link. It works very similar to RDS in terms of the user clicks the HTTP link, they logon using their MS credentials, they are presented with a web page with the applications they are permitted to run and by clicking on one, an RDP session is created from their workstation to the target server and their application is executed for them.

Due to some of our applications being from the Win2K3 days, we have found that we can run them in a Win2K8 Non-R2 environment (x86) and not higher, so I would like to as if the following setup would run OK in terms of compatibility and what would be our restrictions?

* 2x Win2K12 RDS Connection Brokers
* Various Win2K8 Non-R2 terminal servers running our legacy apps.
* Various Win2K8 R2 terminal servers running newer apps.

Has anyone tried this setup and will it work?

| +-- JDMils |

Where would be the best place to submit a feature request for an enhanced clipboard feature?

I would like an optional transfer of clipboard to local host but not enabled by default.  I have users with a workflow that requires frequent copy/paste functionality between remote apps and I would like to have the default clipboard feature disabled because the user base is frequently on a high latency lower bandwidth connection.  

If the clipboard feature is disabled then they can copy and paste between remote app sessions without affecting bandwidth by transferring clipboard to local workstation but occasionally it is necessary to copy and paste to or from the local workstation.  I would like something like a shift-ctrl-c to copy to local clipboard but a regular ctrl-c would just copy between remote app sessions.

If enable the clipboard then every copy paste function is transferred to local workstation and large text or image transfers are very slow .

Hi,

Is it no longer possible to publish remoteapps using MSI?

The problem with this is that it's not possible to do file associations unless you use the Remote Desktop Web Connection.

Best regards

Kjartan

Hi There,

I'm having a rather odd and annoying issues with our client's RDS servers and some printers. Some users printers seem to 'bleed' to all other users sessions.

Printers are all configured on the same print server and are shared out from there. Onsite IT then manually add printers to users sessions as they need them.

However, for some reason some printers are showing up in all user sessions, which is causing Devices and Printers to show 2 and 3 of the same printers installed. I'm logged into the server as my domain admin account and I have no printers installed under my profile (other than XPS/Onenote/cutePDF as these are local printers), yet as you can see from the below screenshot, all the printers highlighted in blue show up, and these show for all users.

When I try to remove these printers one of a few things happens:

1. Nothing. The printer does not remove and it just stays there.
2. It disappears for a second and then reappears at the end of the list.
3. It disappears for a few minutes and then reappears on its own.

Interestingly enough, these printers come and go on their own through out the day and it appears to be related to user logons, but I've been unable to narrow down what users are causing what printers to appear for all users.

Printer redirection is turned off so cannot be the cause.

How is such a thing even possible given that if the printer was installed as an admin, then it would show up all the time and removing it would actually remove the printer and user printers are meant to stick to that users sessions.

And more importantly, how do I resolve this annoying issue as it is confusing users when they have multiple printers to print to of the same type.

Hi,

We are running several RDS 2012R2 servers and some users need to use the on-screen keyboard.
I've created a tile linked to OSK.exe and they can also use the search field on the right-hand side to type and search for OSK.

On all servers users will get the error: On-screen Keyboard does not work any more / Cannot start on-screen keyboard

When an administrator starts the osk it works fine.

How can we make sure users can use the OSK?

Hi,

Any chance to use User profile disk previusly used in OLD domain for newly created account in NEW domain?

RDS environment already in NEW domain.  

I have a problem

On a some domain PC by Windows 8.1 user can't connected to any RemoteApp - freezes in "Prepare Windows"

All servers have windows 2012r2, on each install all updates

2 servers - RD gateway (for external users), Broker, Web Site - configure HA

10 host for apps

1 serv License

All cert purchased (CA External COMODO) and installed for RD Gateway and Web Site.

All site add to Trusted in IE

And this problem i have only Windows 8.1 

How can i fix it?

P.S. : I will be grateful for any help!

Hi,

I'm facing some problem since a month now on my RDS server 2012 r2.

Its a virtual machine, hosted on hyper-V 2012 r2.

Everything worked so far since one month when i add some trouble for all my users.

Randomly during the day, the server slow down, some users got kicked from remote session, and when they try to come back, they got a black screen.

When this event appear, i'v tried to check the server state, task manager or anything, and i cannot browse anything on the server because it is slow answering or not answering at all.

The only work arround i found about this, is to reboot the server. The problem is, right now, i need to reboot the servereveryday ....

I've tried many things :

- restore the VHDX system from a previous state (using veeam 14 days ago restaure backup)
- Enable automatic disconnection for all inactive or pending remote session (users doesnt log off properly) set to 1 or 10 minutes.

- All windows update are installed.

None of those things correct the problem.

ANy ideas ? Any tools i can use on my server to gather data to provide to find a solution ?

Hello

So i have a windows 2012 r2 RDSH configured for terminal session together with user profile disk.

Wenn a user logs on everything seems fine, the UPD UVHD is created correctly and in the right Share, but he gets a popup notification that theres a propblem with his roaming profile.

In the eventlog i get an error with id 1521 from user profile service with detail "Path not found".

I looked into registry and, yes under HKLM,Software, Microsoft, Windows NT, current version, profile list, SID i have
"ProfileImagePath" which is "C:\Users\username"
and
"CentralProfile" which is "test\username.domain.V4"

I was under the impression that this CentralProfile value is filled by the GPO "Set roaming profile path for all users logging onto this computer". Is this correct?
Because I ran RSOP for this user but said GPO isnt set.

I search the entire registry for a default value for this key, but to no avail, ive searched the default profile, found nothing.

Where does the Server take this path from? Where can i change this path to the correct path to our UPD Store?

Also, why do all users listet under the profilelist registry entry have a "V4" in the CentralProfile PAth? Is this something i need to worry about?

Also is this CentralProfile even useful while using UPDs?

So, we have an old WTS environment for which the users have tprofile path set in their AD Accounts.

Now for a new WTS i want to use UPD.

What is the recommened way to tell this new WTS to ignore the path under TPRofile Path in the AD Account?

How do I do this the best way?

Old WTS is win 2003, new is 2012 r2

Or does the 2012 collection automatically ignore tprofile if set to use UPD?

Hi all,

I have a VDI2012R2 farm with personal desktop collection. All VMs in collection are Win7.

There are a number of client computers from outside that cannot connect to VDI VM. The connection is stuck on 'Configuring remote session...'. After period of time I got a message: "This computer can't connect to the remote computer. Try connecting again. If the problem continues, contact the owner of the remote computer or your network administrator."

I have checked a TerminalServices-SessionBroker -> Operational logs and found this "This connection request has timed out. User could not log on to the end point within the alloted time. Remote Desktop Connection Broker will stop monitoring this connection request.". Other logs are fine, I see that broker found necessary VM and succesfully processed the connection request.

If I tried to connect from other client PC - everything is ok. All clients, VMs, VDI servers and HyperV Hosts are fully updated. Affected clients are with different OS's (Win8.1, Win Server 2008R2, Win Server 2012R2).

What can cause these problems? Additional troubleshooting steps needed.

Hello,

We're building and RDS environment and are running into a use issue we don't like.  We're going to serve RemoteApps strictly from the Web interface.  We have the login working without requiring the domain to web but can't seem to get the RDP login to work without requiring the domain.

I've tried to set the customRDP settings but they never make it to the RDP file that is downloaded. 

Set-RDSessionCollectionConfiguration -CustomRdpProperty "use multimon:i:0`nusername:s:DOMAIN\"

I've also added to the RDS HA Database and tried the domain custom property as well.  Nothing seems to work.

I followed these directions for the web, and they worked great: msfreaks.wordpress.com/2014/07/22/properly-removing-the-domain-prefix-requirement-from-rd-web-access-2012-r2/ 

Does anyone know if it's possible to get this to work?