I trying to explain my setup, i have a fully functioning and working internal RDWEB with published apps, all permissions are working totally fine. (version 2012R2).

Apps only appear when permissions are given etc. call this Domain A

during this current situation with Covid-19 , we want to share the apps to another domain (call it Domain B), which is currently trusted (oneway) we trust the accounts from Domain B.

So we enabled RDWEB in the firewall, and now a few of us who are testing RDS works ok in Domain B, can see all applications that are published even ones i have taken myself off, if i check on our domain A i don't see the apps, but going to rdweb on domain B i see all the apps and can even access them !! its interesting when browsing to RDWEB from domain B it doesn't ask for credentials etc. 

in IIS on the rdweb server Windows authentication is enabled. i don't understand how it can be displaying all the applications and allowing me to access them (when i click excel for example it does ask for my login and opens excel fine but i have removed my self from the app permissions. i am a domain admin on domain A if this has anything to do with it.

any ideas or suggestions would be gratefully received.

many thanks

Mark

Hi!

I am testing RDS 2019 with RemoteApp, and I have problems with startup splash screens. Each splash screen creates a button on the client’s taskbar and does not disappear from desktop and taskbar after the appearance of the main window. For example, I run three RemoteApp and I have three splash screens and three program windows on my desktop. And even if I close these windows, the splash screens will still remain on desktop and cannot be closed. This happens only in RemoteApp and does not occur with a remote desktop mode. I tried to recreate an RDS farm again, but it does not help.

This does not happen with all programs (having splash screen), but with many. At the same time, there were no such problems at RDS 2012R2/2016. 

As RDCB and RDSH used Windows Server 2019 with latest cumulative update (2019-01). As clients used Windows 10 1709/1809 with same update.

I just installed RDWebclient on our Windows Server 2016. I have it fully patched and have restarted the server since installing again. I uninstalled and reinstalled RDWebclient on the server. However, the web page is not displaying correctly. For instance, instead of display "Username" above the username input field, it says "USER_NAME_LABEL" and for password it says "PASSWORD_LABEL". In the top left hand corner, it says "ALL_RESOURCES_TAB_LABEL". Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! (Sorry, I can't post a picture of it because my account is not validated).

Hi,

A site i now managed which has a 2012 r2 server which is the terminal server and a 2016 Server which is the licensing server as well as an sbs 2011 server which is the DC has a small problem. Users inside the lan can rdp fine, but external users get this error - a A Licensing error occurred while the client was attempting to connect (licensing timed out).

Any idea's?

Alan

Hello colleagues

When we are doing such config (enable multiple sessions per user):

Computer Configuration\ Administrative Templates\ Windows Components\ Remote Desktop Services\ Remote Desktop Session Host\ Connections

Restrict Remote Desktop Services users to a single Remote Desktop Services session     Disabled

We are not able to reconnect to any disconnected session that was running previously.

It seems that it was mentioned here for Inside build, but we have same...

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-Server-Insiders/Bug-no-reconnect-to-disconnected-session-with/m-p/282056/highlight/false#M829

Any solutions for this problem?

Regards,

Sergii V

I have a Server 2012R2 VM hosted on hyper-v.

I can manage the VM, but not the hyper-v.

I want to connect to the VM with RDP (from a windows 10 computer), and redirect a local USB (some license dongle). And I hoped remoteFX could do that.

HOW do I get remoteFX to work? I have trawled througt a lot of guides and blogs, without luck.

It seems that the VM, being 2012R2, does not require vGPU, and hence the hyper-v host does not need to be able to provide that. I cannot determine if the hyper-v host MUST have the RD Virtualization Server role installed or not (I hope not)

It seems that all it takes on server VM is to enable remoteFX/USB direction, and to install Desktop Experience.

And to disable "do not allow supported plug and play device redirection" on on the server" and enable "Allow RDP redirection of other supported RemoteFX USB devices from this computer.”  on the client.

Yet, it seems not to work. Any help is appreciated.

/nikolaj

Hi everyone!

We are struggling with our new Terminal Server setup and I am kindly asking for your help.

- 2 Remote Desktop Session Hosts (load balanced, 20 cores and 64 GB memory each) + 1 Broker/Licensing. No gateway, only local network access. SSO with AD credentials enabled and working. Currently working with local profiles (no roaming, UPD recently disabled) for troubleshooting reasons. No MS Office installed. Mainly used software is a Terminal Server supported typical software for our business area.
- 1 Print Server (2 cores, 8 GB memory) with several new and old printers, latest drivers from the manufacturers.
All of them are Server 2019 DC 1809, patched up to January 2020 level.

Hardware base is vSphere 6.7 on a fresh HPE ProLiant set, shared SSD storage and lots of memory. There are no performance issues on a hardware base, also not on other VMs.

Printers get mapped into the Termial sessions via GPO ("Create" command as user policy with loopback mode, \\printserver\printername).

So far - so good. Most of the time all is working fine, users can print from the sessions and the sessions are performing quite well.

Since this setup has gone live a few days ago, we are experiencing intermittent issues in the sessions that have not been recognized during an extended testing phase. It seems that the Print Server's spoolsv.exe is hanging or sometimes crashing and during this period all Terminal sessions on both hosts are freezing or hanging their applications ("Not responding"). Every session does have mapped the same printers, about 12 in total. Usually programs are freezing during work without opening a printing dialog, but at the latest if a user tries to print something, the session is gone. It happens 1-5 times a day.

During that phase the RDSH are nominally not hugely loaded (10-20% CPU, 30% memory with ~30 users on each, so they are clearly overpowered), users are no longer able to log on or off ("Remote Desktop Service is busy"). After a couple of minutes or if we restart the printer spoolers on both RDSH and Print Server, the system is running again and users, that have not tried to log off, can continue their session at normal speed. After another 5 minutes new sessions can being opened again, so the RD service is no longer busy with itself.
The load on the Print Server is usually ~2-5% CPU, during a freeze it may go up to 20%. The Print Management console may be crashing also, or at least it is very slow.

We've tried to identify a faulty driver on the Print Server and have found one using the eventvwr that caused the spoolsv to crash, however the issue is still there. We've also removed all unused drivers from both RDSH and the Print Server.

We have enabled 2 new GPO settings for the hosts: "Always render print jobs on the server" and "Execute print drivers in isolated processes" without a noticeable change. On the Print Server all possible drivers are also running in Isolation (Mode 2), however not all of them are supporting this. The physical printers themselves are working fine, PC clients do have some of them installed locally on their machine without known issues.

What's unclear for me: It seems that the RD sessions are constantly communicating with the print server (according to the Resource Monitor), even when nothing is being printed. Therefore they immediately are slowing down once the Print Server is having an issue. Is this an usual behavior? Does it depend on which Default Printer the users are setting?

So the idea is now either to find the faulty driver/setting and/or to reduce the dependency on the print server, so even when it hangs or may be offline, the sessions should not hang up.

I appreciate every single hint that might help to identify the issue or to find a workaround.
Let me know if I missed any important information.

Many thanks and regards!

I may finally be out of my depth. (Clients are not on the domain) . Clients = windows 10; servers 2016

My network has its own DNS, and the FQDN of the servers are not within public DNS. remote clients use a public FQDN that matches the IP of the serves. Internal everything is <server>.private.net. outside it is <server>.<company name>.com (the servers are clueless about their public fqdn).

Here is the thing. NLA on and NTLM off. Clients can RDP into the domain controllers! Obviously there are certificate errors, but let's live with that for the moment. However all member servers get is a "this function request is not supported" "this could be due to credssp encryption oracle remediation". ALL SERVERS ARE FULLY PATCHED, 

Lets not forget that... remote clients can connect to the domain controllers. 

Obviously users are not connecting to the domain controllers, its just me with a user account 

We do have a RDP gateway (but I am testing without it to narrow down the problem),

Hi Evryone,

what is difference between quick start and standard deployment on rds Services.

Best regards,

AHL

AHL1988

Hi there

I am having a problem whereby a USB webcam works fine on my local machine but when i connect to my RDS 2016 it doesn't pick up the webcam. I have enabled it through the Remote desktop Connection applet and I have enabled RemoteFX through GPO but the Camera still doesn't get picked up. 

Can you suggest what else i can do?

Kind regards

George

Hi we have a HA env't built for our RDP ENv't

2 RD Connection Brokers

1 Licensing Server

3 RD Web Access Servers

5 RD Session host Servers

2 RD Gateway Servers

we have 3 Collection - Contractors, Employees, Guests

The Env't has been built for a few months the Contractor and Guests is working fine - moderate users maybe 25 on at a time.

The Employee Collection at this time only has about 10 users for Piloting....many of the users at different times of the day get a random black screen and cannot work.

We tried to figure it out, but then gave up and ended up deleting on of the UDP Session Host Servers and redeployed the VM to a different ESXi Host, rebuilt the Session Host and for the past week it has been fine.

I wanted to do a full healthcheck, best practises on the env't as we did not setup this env't - it was built by a consulting firm who no longer is helping.  Any suggestions on how to determine if things are setup right, what could be improved, missing...?

Thanks,

Hi,

So I have a basic test environment in order to design an RDP solution. I have two former Terminal Servers that both have the Session Host roles installed, one has the Connection Broker role the other has the Web Access role and BOTH have the RD Gateway roles. So basically, my two Session Hosts are also both RD Gateways and one is the broker and the other the Web Access.

I can connect to all of my member servers via RDP happily through the Gateway and when I open the Gateway Manager I can see every connection made. Three connections per session (1 x TCP and 2 X UDP). My issue is there doesn't seem to be any Load Balancing between the two Gateway Servers. Both servers are in a Farm and I have a DNS RR created for the Farm name. Also a collection has been made to include both Session Hosts and DNS records created for the Collection name, in the collection properties I have set Load Balancing to 100 Relative Weight for both servers.

For whatever reason every single connection goes through just one Gateway, no matter how many connections I make the second Gateway server never gets any connections. In the event of restarting or shutting down the active Gateway my live connections migrate across to the still reachable Gateway and any new connections from then on will also be made through the reachable Gateway, even when the unreachable Gateway is back up and running.

Happy that my live sessions migrate to the available Gateway in the event of losing one but can't figure out why the sessions will only be made through one Server and not spread between the two.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Andy

Hi guys,

On a random base (daily, weekly) we're experiencing major log-in problems on our Windows Server 2012 R2 Remote Desktop Services farm. The VM's are hosted on Hyper-V 2008 hosts and we're not using Citrix techniques etc.

Users are reporting that they cannot log-in, the log-in sessions hangs with a blank screen when loading their user profile (e.g. Please Wait For The User Profile Service).

In the System event log of the server on which the user is logging on the following errors are shown:

Source:        Service Control Manager 
Date:          23-12-2014 7:28:01
Event ID:      7011 
Task Category: None 
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A 
Description: 

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the UmRdpService service.

…and after 30 (or sometimes 60) seconds, the same error only another service (in random order):

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the UmRdpService service.

…and after exactly 30 seconds, the same error only another service:

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the UxmSms service.

etcetera, with the following errors:

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the Netman service.

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the AudioEndPointBuilder service.

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the WPDBusEnum service.

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the NlaSvc service.

The Portable Device Enumerator Service service failed to start due to the following error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the TrkWks service.

A timeout (30000 milliseconds) was reached while waiting for a transaction response from the UmRdpService service.

These errors are logged continuously.

An administrator cannot solve this since he isn't able to login in as well (console or remotely), only a hard reset of the VM is possible to use the affected server again.

I took different steps to solve this problem without any success, like:

- Installing the latest Windows updates
- Removed unnecessary printer drivers, print monitors and print processors (no local printers/drivers are installed, only Remote Desktop Easy Printer driver is used)
- Searched different forum posts, but found only hotfixes for Windows Server 2008 R2.

Can someone please help me with this annoying problem?

Many thanks!!

EDIT:
Of course is increasing the time-out not really an option here... http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/13765.event-id-7011-service-timeout.aspx

Hi,

Servers: Windows 2016 Standard

I have 3 x Remote Desktop Session Host servers, a Remote Desktop Connection Broker, an SQL Server and a shared Drive where the UPD's (User Profiles Disk) hold the User's Profiles in a .vhdx format.

We need to backup the users profiles (which is in .vhdx format) but rather than backing up the whole users profile .vhdx, I would like to backup selected Files/Folder within the .vhdx format. 

Is there any backup software out there that will allow me to select specific files and folders within the users .vhdx disk as oppose to backing up the whole .vhdx disk in its entirety?

Kind Regards

GMSS   

Hello there,

Here is the setup. I have a user who is working remotely. She uses remote desktop for one of her database-heavy applications. Unfortunately this application has trouble printing to redirected printers, and can only print to shared or local printers. This is per the company that provides our tech support for the application (NCR CounterPoint), so we have a local USB printer installed on her local computer. It is shared from the local computer and then installed on her profile on the remote desktop server.

She connects back to the office over a VPN. The remote desktop server is located back at the office. Her internet connection is fairly fast and reliable. Average ping time from my PC at the office to her PC at home is about 53ms. I originally suspected the internet connection, but I'm not totally convinced that's that problem. We have plenty of other users set up the same way on the same server, and they don't have this problem.

Through troubleshooting, it's seems that the shared printer can take a few minutes to show up in the Devices and Printers of her profile on the remote desktop server. Other times, it never shows up at all. No matter how long she leaves the session open. I have tried reinstalling the shared printer on her profile on the remote desktop server and sometimes will receive an error message that says something like, "Unable to connect to printer". I will restart the print spooler on both her computer and the remote desktop server, but this doesn't seem to make a difference.

I've even tried making her a local admin on the RDS server and sometimes this will allow me to reinstall the printer. Sometimes I will still get the same error message. I have dug through the event logs of both the server and her computer, but can't find anything that indicates what might be causing this to happen.

I've had her gracefully sign out of the RDS session by going to "Start -> Sign Out", as opposed to just disconnecting it. It doesn't seem to make a difference. She also uses a Remote App for one of her other applications, so I'm not sure if this is conflicting with her RDS session in some way. Again, we have other users set up this way and they seem to be fine.

The main issue is that the shared printer from her local computer installed on the RDS server just doesn't show up sometimes, and then she can't print. When it does show up, it stays there the whole time until she closes the RDS session. The next time she opens it, the printer may or may not appear.

She is using Windows 10 Pro 64-bit. The server is Windows Server Standard 2016 64-bit.

Any ideas?

Thank you!

Dear Sir,

I have 2 RD session Hosts for 2 different purposes and they are a bit confusing in same icon and I would change them to different icons.

Only one solution for windows 2012 was found but it doesn't work on Windows 2019.

I also tried to look for remotedesktop command but it only can change the icon for RemoteApp but it seem not for Remote Desktop.

Does any expert have an advice / idea on that change? Thx in advance

Hi. We have a new WS2016 RDS deployment (VMs on Hyper-V):

 - 2x WS2016 RDGW in NLB

 - 2x RDCB in HA configuration

 - couple RDSH servers

The problem is that in 30-50% of the connection attempts via these gateways, the connection is stuck at the "Configuring remote session" message. The connection is never successfully estabilished when this happens and it is closed without any error couple minutes later. When you try again (or just immediatelly cancel the connection and reconnect), the connection may or may not go through.

When this problem happens, I can see there's single HTTP connection on the RDGW that accepted the connection with 0 bytes transferred in either direction. There are no related errors at this time.

Can anyone help? Btw. this problem also happens when connecting to a different single-host RDS deployment through these gateways.

I suspected the problem might be in the NLB, but removing either of the gateways from the NLB configuration (and from RDS farm) doesn't help, the issue is still there.

Rebooting the gateways helps for a short while (hours), but then the issue is back.

There are some other errors on the gateways, but these don't correlate to the connection attempts (event 210, source terminalservices-gateway: "Http transport: IN channel could not find a corresponding OUT channel" with no other details).

RDP clients are various ... W8.1, W10, Mac...