I have 10 RDP licenses managed on a Windows 2008 R2 server. Users are accessing Windows 2008R2 servers. If I wish to purchase 10 additional RDP licenses and have user access new Windows 2012 r2 servers will the original 10 User CAL's be licensed for accessing the Windows 2012 R2 servers as well? Or do I have purchase 20 RDP CALs for Windows 2012R2 servers?

What is I moved the RDP license server to a Windows 2012 R2 Machine?

Spent (wasted) about 20 hours or so trying to resolve certificate issues with RDS 2012r2.

Currently I have decided the best approach would be to get a SAN certificate from a 3rd party service that contains 2 wildcard certificates (*.domain.net, *.internal.domain.net) (the second was a screwup from the guys who originally built the domain, all internal FQDNs are server.internal.domain.net). The common name on the certificate is *.domain.net.

My understanding would be that any server with an FQDN of *.domain.net or *.internal.domain.net would be covered by this certificate. Currently I'm only working with internal addresses so only the *.internal.domain.net is relevant.

I have Windows NLB running on two servers that are both Connection Brokers, Sessions Hosts, and Web Hosts with HA configured between the Connection Brokers. The NLB DNS A record is 'RDAPP' pointing to the correct IP. (Note: I have done this with round robin to the same result)

When I connect to 'RDAPP' via RDP I am given the Name Mismatch prompt

"Requested remote computer:

RDAPP

Name in the certificate from the remote computer:

*.domain.net"

When I view the certificate I see in the "Subject Alternative Name"

DNS Name=*.domain.net

DNS Name=*.internal.domain.net

The FQDN of the NLB DNS name is RDAPP.internal.domain.net which should be covered by the second wildcard. 

The Certificate is correctly installed on all servers and clients used for testing. I've tested also on a linux thin client non-domain joined and get the same mismatch. 

Let me know if I'm missing something simple or what else I should try next. Really out of ideas here. Have used every type of certificate from our internal Root CA, have tried multiple 3rd party certificates in various formats. My original farm worked fine but it crashed and burned due to the silly 2012 architecture and the 3 other farms I've brought up have this same issue.

Hello,

I'm trying to understand some confusing behavior I've been seeing after upgrading my Windows 7 SP1 machine to use RDP 8.0 as per the instructions.

Some digging has led me to believe these updates (along with the Local Group Policy changes) will configure both the RDP Client and Host to enable the new protocol (8.0).

However, when I try to connect to this machine from a Windows 8 device (supporting RDP 8.0 by default), I do not get the "Connection Quality Indicator" that's supposed to tell you you're getting RDP 8.0.

In other words, that little signal strength bar isn't there for me. The instructions say if I don't see this, it's not RDP 8.0.

Here's what I don't understand--if I use this Win 7 machine to connect to a Win 8 machine, the connection quality indicator DOES appear, and the dialog box is there as well. But connecting TO this machine does not. It's led me to believe that the RDP 8.0 is working for this Win 7 machine as a RDP client but not as a host.

I've followed the instructions precisely: I installed the hotfix KB2574819 and then the RDP update KB2592687 and changed both group policy settings. I've restarted my machine several times. I even threw in the upgrade to RDP 8.1 in an attempt to make it work. I know that the updates got applied because selecting

Remote Desktop Connection > About

shows me 'Remote Desktop Protocol 8.1 supported.'

My group policy has the 'Enable Remote Dektop Protocol 8.0' setting enabled, as well as 'Select RDP Transport Protocols' (set to both TCP and UDP).

Thoughts?

Heres a little background about my problem:

Host Hardware: 3.14GHz Quad Core Xeon, 12GB RAM, 2TB RAID-1 Array, Quadro K600 Graphics Card

Host OS: Hyper-VServer 2016 TP4 (all updates installed)

Guest Hardware Config:1GB RAM (Dynamically Scalable), 4 Virtual processors, 128GB HD, RemoteFX adapter with 1 max display at 2560x1600, 512MB RAM

Guest OS: Windows 10 Pro

With the adapter installed, I am able to install Win10 properly.  However, on the initial boot, it hangs at the "Hyper-V"(with spinning circle) screen.  No amount of startup repair or rebooting will allow the VM to boot.  I am reinstalling this VM as I had a similar issue with a previous VM.  That VM was installed and configured properly, but would no longer boot when RemoteFX is enabled.

As a point of reference, I have updated the Host OS to have the latest nvidia drivers for the graphics card.

Has anyone ever seen this before?  Anything I can do to resolve the issue?

Greetings,

My boss recently purchased a high resolution laptop (3840 x 2160). His desire is to be able to use remote desktop while he is away to keep in touch with his computer at home base.

We have connected him to our server at our main facility using remote desktop. From there he uses remote desktop to remote into his physical computer in the office.

The primary problem with both remote desktop connections ports is the fact the sizing is way to small for someone to read. I try to turn down the resolution, but a few problems arise.

1) It will not allow full screen anymore

2) It will not allow window resizing

3) The box is too small to read.

I have played with font sizes within remote desktop to make it illegible for him but the result is that it becomes unusable by others that have to remote in.

My need is to find a way to keep the native resolution for the server and get this laptop to scale the connection to full screen in order to become usable.

I have tried to make remote desktop manager work for this and I have been having repeated issues. We are currently running windows server 2009. The laptop is running windows 8.1

Please help. any advice would be great.

Thanks,

J

I have Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop services platform. I have connection broker and session host roles are running on different servers. I am trying to remove an session host server and cannot do it using Server Manager or Power shell command.

On Server manager, I am trying to remove the session host server at collections/Host Servers.  I get  this message:

Could not remove the configuration.
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

On Powershell I get this messge.

PS C:\Windows\system32> Remove-RDServer  -Server hq-rdsserver -Role RDS-RD-SERVER -Force
Remove-RDServer : The servers are not joined to the deployment as RD Session Host server.
The following servers did not validate successfully.
HQ-RDSSERVER
At line:1 char:1
+ Remove-RDServer  -Server hq-rdsserver -Role RDS-RD-SERVER -Force
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Write-Error], WriteErrorException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WriteErrorException,Remove-RDServer

Anybody any clues?

Anand

Hi.

I´m working on a project where I need to allow multiple sessions ( already done ), but limit the number of concurrent sessions on a RDS farm...

At the moment, we're using only one RDS server ( R&D stage ), but in the future, there'll be a farm with RDS Connection Broker and many RDS Session Hosts.

I've come to the conclusion that the best approach is to create a custom GPO, apply to the RDS Session Hosts, and use a vbscript or powershell to block the logon when the number of sessions reaches the defined limit.

I'd like to achieve a group based ( Groups: 1RDSsession, 2RDSsession and so on ... ) user logon limit. I have some ideas in mind for a single server, and a possible solution for a farm.

But before spending time on this "adventure" ( I really like this kind of challenge :) ), I'd like to know if Windows2012 provides any means for doing this kind of control.

I know there's a per server sessions limit, but that doesn't solve my problem.

Thanks in advance!

Hi!

i Need some help here, we  purchased 3 hp server and install Windows server 2012 data center edition, we are planning to buy CAL A.S.A.P, 

Q: what type of CAL do i need to purchased? is it WinSvrCAL 2012 SNGL OLP NL DvcCAL?

please i need you help and advice.

Thank you.

Rln

Connecting Windows 10 to Windows 10 or Windows 10 to Server 2012 R2 I get a very fuzzy desktop. What's weird is it sharpens and softens if I move my mouse over an icon. For example if I move my mouse over the start button it sharpens up and when I move away it softens again.

I've tried turning off font smoothing and desktop composition. I've tried remote desktop connection manager instead of the RDP client with desktop set to client area and full screen. I've tried the tool here and setting to Windows 8 on both ends of the connection. I've turned off and on clear type text. DPI scaling is set to 100% on both computers. I'm connecting with full screen 1920x1080. 

What can I do to fix this?>

Here are some examples. 

Even PowerShell which is particularly annoying. 

Hi,

2012 R2.

I have connection broker, gateway and web access on same box.  A collection has been create with access to two session hosts.  The rdp connection is presented in RDWeb.  When clicking on this it attempts to connect but immediately fails.  If I manually create an RDP session to one of the session hosts in the collection and specify the gateway server it works correctly.

Error wise all I see on the CB is:

TerminalServices-SessionBroker-Client

Remote Desktop Connection Broker Client received request for redirection. 
User : xxxx
RDP Client Version : 5

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

Remote Desktop Connection Broker Client failed to redirect the user xxxx
Error: NULL

under TerminalServer-SessionBroker

So this all looks like a connection broker issue but I cannot see any more clues as to what is causing it...

On the session host the following is logged:

there is a firewall between the CB and the session hosts so perhaps a required rule is missing?

Any ideas?

Thanks

Dear Team,

I am facing some issues with remote desktop services (client system is not getting connected   to server through remotely desktop)

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Ravi Jasuja

I have this working perfectly for Windows clients running IE.  A Windows client running IE will connect normally on the internal network and from the internet.  A Windows client running Chrome (on the internal network) will download the RDP file, and if you double-click the RDP file, it will connect and run the application.

However, I have to support some Macs for some of our end-users, and the connection process from the internet doesn't appear to work.  They authenticate at the WAP, authenticate at the RD Web page, and are presented with the applications available to them.  When they select an application it downloads the RDP file.  Running the downloaded file then errors out, as I think it can't navigate through the WAP/ADFS/RD Gateway, presenting a dialog which says "trying to send new request before old one is complete."

Similar behavior when connecting to RD Web through WAP via Chrome on a Windows Client from the internet, with error "missing firewall credentials."

Any ideas?  I have seen nothing in writing which indicates Windows and IE are the only supported client combination.

IT architect - Terminal servers, virtualizations, SQL servers, file servers, WAN networks and closely related to software devleopment (8 years + experience in VB, C++ and script langugaes), MCP for SQL server and CCAA for Xenapp 6.5

I've set up a HA Connection Broker cluster, and in order to get the web gateway working again, I need to set up a new RAP policy that specifies the RD Broker RR Address, but every time I try, when I click 'Add' in 'User Groups' (And anywhere else in the MMC, it seems), the MMC crashes with the following output:

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:    BEX64
  Application Name:    mmc.exe
  Application Version:    6.3.9600.17415
  Application Timestamp:    54504e26
  Fault Module Name:    clr.dll
  Fault Module Version:    4.6.1055.0
  Fault Module Timestamp:    563c12de
  Exception Offset:    00000000002fdbd8
  Exception Code:    c0000409
  Exception Data:    0000000000000002
  OS Version:    6.3.9600.2.0.0.400.8
  Locale ID:    1033
  Additional Information 1:    96f9
  Additional Information 2:    96f9c5010a52aa0dfa6dd4f9281ffe93
  Additional Information 3:    7b9b
  Additional Information 4:    7b9b3ea08d2dac897bb696ccf51055a9

As far as I can tell from searching, it seems to be .NET that's crashing, but I haven't found any solutions.All three servers (Web Gateway and both Connection Brokers) are fully patched.

has anyone else sen this and/or have any ideas how to either fix it or maybe some kind of workaround?

Hello, I am new system administrator in my company and supporting an infra of RDS and Citrix XenApp 7.1 servers. We have got all scripts and user profiling set up by old administrators so i don't have much clue how things are working in my environment. I see that whenever a new user logs in to our Citrix/RD session host Servers, They get 5-8 icons automatically populated to his desktop. I tried investigating alot on this matter and found that there there is a folder named as "Sources" under C: drive on each server and we have a script which checks user membership in AD and then copies icon from same sources folder to user desktop. I searched almost at all level like GPOs, local policies and task scheduler but couldn't find any setting where this script was exclusively called but still every time this script is getting run. Its a small script and look like this.

=======================================

@echo off

:: Copies developer icons to the user desktop, if they are members of the developers group

net user %username% /DOMAIN | find "TELCO_ XenApp Dev users"

if %errorlevel% == 0 (
::Got a developer, lets copy icons to the desktop
xcopy "C:\Sources\Developer Icons\*" "%userprofile%\Desktop\" /q/y

)

==========================================

I have come to conclusion that when i remove my test user from this AD group, I don't get any icons populated but when i add it to this group, All icons listed at location "C:\Sources\Developer Icons" get copied to my desktop. I know it could be a very small thing which i couldn't make it on my own. I request you to please get me some idea as to where this script can be called or if there is any explicit setting or GPO. Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi there,

we set up a terminal server farm featuring Windows Server 2012 r2.

However, after publishing several apps we noticed the taskbar icon is often not displayed correctly.

I.e. for Explorer.exe  the remote desktop icon will be used, as well as different, native msc consoles.

For calc.exe the icon is displayed correctly, therefore its not a general problem, it only affects selected executables.

Every hint on google did not lead to an solution. Since we published many applications users complain they cant differentiate anymore.

I'm thankful for any advice!

Hi! 

Recently we set up a little RDS2012R2 farm with few session hosts and one broker. On my win10 and some of win7 machines we can see option Reconnect to Work Resources in system tray RDS icon, but on most of our machines this option is missing. It is critical option for our users, we need provide the ability to restore all running remote applications on the users desktops with one click.

Please, point me to a right direction, i have no idea why on some machines option is present and why is not on others.

Current setup:

RDCB, RDWB and RDLC roles on same server.  x 2 servers.  These are load balanced using MS NLB.  Lets call these CF01 and CF02.  External cert deployed to all servers, DNS Round robin name: remoteapp.mydomain.com which points to the NLB of both these servers.  

1. Are Active Remote Desktop management server and Active Collection Broker the same? Or are these different entities? I think the same? https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj215479.aspx

I note in RDS Server Manager > Overview > Deployment Overview the drop down to change the active Connection Broker. However this displays the machine names either CF01 or CF02.  

During HA testing (set Active Broker to CF01) disable NIC on CF01, new and previous clients can still access apps via RDWB fine with no interruption :-)  So CF02 must be being accesed via the NLB at remoteapp.mydomain.com

The RDS Server Manager can't find the alternative Collection Broker for around 3 minutes, Get-RDLicenseConfiguration will also show a change in ActiveManagementServer and returns the second broker after this approx 3 minutes. Update - not true, after checking fail-over from CF01 to CF02 this appeared true but CF02 to CF01 not - weird! Get-RDConnectionBrokerHighAvailability : The active Remote Desktop management server is not reachable.

 Clients appear completely unaffected by this outage and RDS Server Manager facilities are available too (after 3 minutes), on the surface all good.

Get-RDConnectionBrokerHighAvailability returns:

ActiveManagementServer   : CF02.mydomain.com
ConnectionBroker         : {CF01, CF02}
ClientAccessName         : REMOTEAPP.mydomain.com
DatabaseConnectionString : DRIVER=SQL Server Native Client
                           11.0;SERVER=DB01;Trusted_Connection=Yes;APP=Remote Desktop Services Connection
                           Broker;Database=RemoteApp
DatabaseFilePath         : E:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\RAPP\RemoteApp.mdf

2.  But for this HA environment, should the Broker HA settings be set as follows?

Set-RDConnectionBrokerHighAvailability -ConnectionBroker "remoteapp.mydomain.com"

 Confused as to why HA works without 2. being set above!

Any pointers welcomed

Lea