[RDS2012] Assign desktop icons and start menu items (metroview) to specific...
As you probably know Windows 2012 does not have a classic Start Menu anymore. To replace that we now have the Modern UI Start Screen. In fact, as soon as you enable the desktop experience feature on a...
View ArticleMicrosoft Access 2013 high CPU usage on RDS 2012
Hi all,We have a small cluster of RDS boxes (2 for users) (on Hyper-V) to run MS Access for an in house application (connecting to SQL Server 2012), which has been running with live users (approx 50...
View ArticleCannot connect with Windows 10 Internet Explorer?
Hi folks,The RDS 2012 R2 RDweb solution requires ActiveX to allow passthrough authentication. Obviously the new Edge browser doesn't have ActiveX so doesn't work, however when I attempt to use Internet...
View Articlescaling remote desktop display to larger size ("pixel doubling") ?
I'm displaying the console of various remote hosts using Remote Desktop on my 2560x1600 display, and they come out very small. I would like to enlarge the RDP windows and have the remote displays'...
View ArticleRemote Desktop Gateway will not setup, RD Web Server fails to find itself,...
This was done on Windows 2012 Server R2. It has been a roller-coaster ride trying to get this server setup for remote access. I have had the ability to remote desktop locally on the network since day...
View ArticleServer 2012 File Preview Locks Files
Hi everybody,I recently reinstalled one of my customers server.The previous installation was Server 2008 Foundation running RDS and the new installation Server 2012R2 Foundation (RDS).With the previous...
View ArticleHow to monitor how many users are currently logged into my Remote Desktop...
I have a Windows 2012 R2 server in a work group.Is there a way to see who are actively logged in using Remote Desktop Service?
View ArticleAccess Remote Desktop Computers trough public ip assigning port to each computer
I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 network and i use a server as a RDS Server.When i access my public IP, it connects directly to that server because on my router i assigned the 3389 port to that server.I...
View ArticleRDS Licensing Server Setup
HiWe have a scenario where we need around 5-6 users to be able to RDP (Windows 2008 as well as 2012) to a same server concurrently. I want to clarify the following points: Do we need RDS CALs for...
View ArticleTerminal Service Confiugration in Windows Server 2012 R2
Hi frenz, I have a requirement to configure a Terminal Session on windows server 2012, I would like to give RDP access to 100+ users for a Particular server (single server) which is in...
View ArticleRDP audio issues with Windows Server 2008
I have a server with an M-Audio 1010LT audio card installed, running audio playback software. This software needs to stay running and playing at all times. We were previously running Windows Server...
View ArticleRDP protocol TLS1.1 Support
Hello, I have a question:does RDP protocol supports TLS 1.1. I did find similar question for TLS 1.2:http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserverTS/thread/e308a2ac-2443-4a24-abc7-fab6079fac86
View ArticleRDP protocol TLS1.2 Support
Is there any way to force RDP to use TLS version 1.2 since I would ideally like to switch to the Suite B TLS ciphers e.g. TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384. I have always felt rather lukewarm...
View ArticleIE11 using up 25% of CPU per user
Hello,We have a 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services environment that was recently updated from IE9 to IE11 through Windows Update and now user iexplore.exe*32 processes are using up 25% of the CPU per...
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Why set an Active RDS Connection broker?
Hello,I have a Windows 2012 R2 RDS Deployment with 2 Connection Brokers in HA Mode. I understand this is an Active/Active configuration so why do we have this menu option?:
View ArticleRemote Desktop Services Pane -- Select Multiple Users
In Server 2012 Remote Desktop Services, how do you select multiple users to send a message to or log off of the server?
View ArticleSet up licensing mode Windows Server 2012 R2 in a workgroup setting
Running Windows Server R2 Standard Edition on a Lenovo ThinkServer. Trying to get licensing mode set up, and we're not running in a domain setting. One server, 10 user network, so no real need to set...
View ArticleRD License Server and RODC
Hi,I have an environment consisting of four RD Session Host servers, 2 RD Gateway servers (of which one is also the licensing server about which I am posting and the other is a Session Broker) and two...
View ArticleHow to add users to access RDS without local account
Guys, Gals,I recently deployed a Windows 2012 setup with a DC and RDS VM's.Everything works fine now, where if I add an user to the DC this one can authenticate without any problems to the different...
View Article2012 R2 RDS Gateway issue with full desktop connections (RemoteApps work ok)
I have a 2012 R2 RDS install that includes 3 session hosts and one server that functions as Gateway, Connection Broker, and Web Access server. I the proper CAP and RAP policies set up to allow...
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