Hi everyone, I'm pulling my hair out on this one...
In short, I easily got USB redirection working on our Win10 Workstations, but can't get it to work at all on Windows server 2016.
Set up:
- All workstations are on Windows 10.
- Servers are on Windows server 2016, we have bare metal boxes, and some VMware hosted servers as well (same behavior). Some are still on trial license, some on full fledged license.
- All Group Policies are set via Active Directory Domain Controller, and are the same for workstations and servers.
So I did all the recommended stuff:
- Enabled remoteFX for clients and hosts. (admins and users)
- Allowed all hardware.
- Enabled encoding for win 2008R2 (I'll remove this one since we dont have any win2008.)
- Do not allow supported P&P device redirection: Disabled.
- Running remote desktop client as admin.
- Enabling local devices and selecting the wanted device (usb joystick in our case).
That works great when connecting from a win10 workstations to a win10 workstation. We see the little computer in the RD title bar, the joystick redirection works, we can unplug the device, plug it back and get it working again.
When connecting to a windows server 2016 (bare metal, VM, trial or full license) the remoteFX computer icon doesn't even show up in the title bar. Again, the Group Policies are indentical and checked with GPresult.
What is different in windows server 2016 ??????
I saw a few people reporting the same issue on a few forums, but never any resolution...