Hello,
Which VPN software are you using to access Remote Desktop?
Many Thanks,
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VPN to access Remote Desktop Services
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Stuck at Establishing Connection Quality in 2016 and error message on broker -"RD Connection Broker failed to process the connection request for user Error: Cannot create another system semaphore."
I have users that use remote desktop to connect to a DNS farm name that has all the session host IP addresses. In Server 2016 RDS, I have the Collections setup with all the Session host in it. I have a HA broker environment setup. I have one Licensing
server.
If I use the DNS farm name to connect to Remote Desktop Session Host, randomly the Session host will stop the user at Establishing Connection Quality. It mostly happens when alot of users are logging in during shift change. I have around 10 Session host. If
I only have two session host IP addresses listed in DNS farm name, only those Session host will stick at Establishing Connection Quality. The other session host are not affected. I do not see error messages in the event viewer for the session hosts. I do see
error messages in the broker server called:
"RD Connection Broker failed to process the connection request for user Error: Cannot create another system semaphore. "
I delete the Collection that is setup in RDS. And recreate the collection. The problem goes away for about a day and comes right back.
I created another collection that does not use DNS farm name connections. It only uses RDweb apps. The session host in this collection never lock at Establishing Connection Quality.
When stuck at Establishing Connection Quality, I have to restart the server to allow users to connect again. I had this problem in 2012 r2, but in 2012 r2 I would have a Blank user in Task manager when Session host locked at Establishing Connection Quality.
I would have to connect to user in task manager and see that the user was stuck at Signing out. Once I disconnected from the session, 2012 r2 would then remove the blank user from task manager. A blank user does not appear in 2016 under Task manager but it
still gets stuck at Establishing Connection Quality. I would have to do an Ipconfig /flushdns to make the user point to a different host listed in DNS in order to log in.
Why does using the DNS farm name with Session Host IP addresses cause only those Session host to stick at Establishing Connection Quality?
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Windows Server 2016 RDSH Intermittent BSOD (DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE)
Hi,
Not sure if this should be asked here or not. If I have submitted in error, please let me know and I will redirect my query elsewhere.
We have an RDS platform (single GW/CB/Lic server - Windows Server 2016, 3 RDSH servers - also Windows Server 2016). The platform is accessed using HP Thin Clients via the Gateway's RDWeb feed. The clients connect fine and all applications and hardware devices appear to work correctly.
However, intermittently (doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason that I can ascertain) one of the servers (it can be any of the three) will BSOD with a bugcheck of 0x0000009f (DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE). The server automatically reboots after a period of time and then works normally. Sometimes the BSOD happens only once, but then other times it will BSOD three or four times in a row shortly after coming up from the previous BSOD reboot.
From what I can gather, Windows is attempting (and failing) to instruct some device attached to the system (presumably via one of the remote sessions) to enter into a power saving mode and BSODs as a result. I have disabled USB power saving on the server but this does not resolve the issue. I have tested one of the RDSH servers by removing it from the connection pool and left it running without clients for a number of months and it has so far not given me any problems.
I took the MEMORY.DMP file (which is available for anyone to peruse upon request) and tried my best to analyse it using the tools available, and it seems to point to hidusb.sys, though I am unsure as to how to trace the problem any further.
All RDSH servers are patched with latest crticial/security patches as of a week ago.
Any possible thoughts as to avenues I could explore to diagnose/resolve this issue?
Thank you in advance for any advice you might be able to offer.
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Users CAL Pool for RDS
Hello,
I have a SPLA contract with RDS licenses per user. I have to declare 1 license each time a user logs on to the service.
I would like to know if I can do the following: declare a license pool for a specific AD group. For example: 10 users in an AD group with the right to 4 simultaneous licenses. I can create my 10 users, but declare a maximum of 4 licenses actually used per month.
Is it possible to do this via the RDS license manager and AD groups?
Thank you
I have a SPLA contract with RDS licenses per user. I have to declare 1 license each time a user logs on to the service.
I would like to know if I can do the following: declare a license pool for a specific AD group. For example: 10 users in an AD group with the right to 4 simultaneous licenses. I can create my 10 users, but declare a maximum of 4 licenses actually used per month.
Is it possible to do this via the RDS license manager and AD groups?
Thank you
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DDA and group policy with a GPU
I have setup a Windows RDS box on Server 2016 that runs in a VM. I've got The DDA (PCIe device passthrough) setup on a Nvidia P2000 gpu.
To make the RDS server use the gpu instead of the CPU for video which group policies should I modify?
Thank you
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RDS Licensing Questions
OS in question Server 2016 and Server 2019
If we have a 2019 Remote Desktop Server and it has 20 RDS User Client Access Licenses. All 20 users have logged in at some point and consumed a License. Then a 21st person logs in. What Happens?
Do the old users eventually still drop off if they have not connected?
Is there a Manual way to Assign/deassign a License to a user?
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Forcing UDP for RDS session
I've got a RDS environment that is using Windows Server 2016. The thin clients we use are Wyse 3040. I am wanting to use UDP instead of TCP for the connection. I've not been able to figure out how to use UDP. I can see on my wyse client that a few packets use UDP but 99% use TCP.
We connect using a VPN so we don't have a gateway setup. Is there a group policy I can add or what is the best way to do that?
Thank you
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Windows server 2008 R2 - How can I fix the warning message (120 days) appears when using remote desktop session
Hello
I am using windows server 2008 R2 with multiple users (5 users accounts). I facing a problem where a 'pop up' warning message appears saying * you have 120 days left ......* every time when I or other users logged in to this server. I tried to check through the remote desktop licencing server and add the license server's name and its credentials (Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration) in the configuration. Then there is no error and green tick appears in the License diagnosis tab under 'Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration' seem every thing fine. However, when log off and log in again I need to supply the credentials again and again for every time and for every user who log in. Also, the days are reducing meaning , I am left with 118 days more for remote desktop sessions .
Q: Why every time the user logged in to the server , still getting this warning popup, although a valid license server name and its credentials were supplied ??
Q How can I fix this problem . I need complete solution for multiple users ?
I hope you understand the problem.
Thanks
Faisal
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Multiple RDS License Server with Split licenses
Hello
We have 2 RDS License server in the domain with 40 Per User CAL on each server with OS Windows Server 2016 DataCenter. and we have GPO in place as well point RDS license server But only one RDS License server is allocating the licenses. Second server is not allocating.
Both server are activated for RDS license.
Need help in this.
Thanks & Regards,
Sapan Shah
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RWW via a Mac or IOS
Hello support,
I have Windows 2012 R2 standard server as a RDS clients on it. it runs an applications on it called ACT! and 7 users login to it to access the Act! program and their individual email outlook. There are three users that have Apple devices that use RDP client for Mac that access the server. I want to close port 3389 and use Remote Web Access (via a ssl certificate) and using essential experience to access the server instead of RDP. But when I go to browser (Safari) and put in the remote link. https://remote.domain.com/remote, I am able to log in and the remote client is downloaded and when I click on it, it wants to open it with an app and it cannot find and goes to App Store but all the programs there are greyed out or not available.
The same process for iPad and iPhone. How can safely access the server? I appreciate your help.
Jamshid
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RemoteAPP after windows 10 update 1803 are slow and right mouse button is not responding (it reacts only sometimes)
Hi,
our workstations with Windows 10 pro are in this weekend updated to version 1803. For main system we use RemoteAPP aplications on Windows server 2012R2 (Windows server 2012R2 is full updated). After update on client station are RemoteAPP slower, and right mouse button is unresponsive, or react verly long time...
It is a big problem for us.
PS: after replace mstsc.exe and mstscax.dll from older version Windows 10 is all OK. but this is not a solution.
Thanks.
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RemoteApp cant seem to write to Program Files (x86)
I have a (old) ERP system setup as a RemoteApp.
When you go to spool invoices etc and display them, it goes to generate them, brings up WordPad but then comes up with the following message:
"\\ServerFQDN\c$\Program Files (x86)\Application Folder\Sub Folder\Filename.txt
Cannot find this file
Please verify the correct file name and path are given."
It has never written the file.
If I open WordPad as a RemoteApp and manually browse to that location I have full access and create and modify a file there so I dont believe its a permissions issue.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Per User RDS licensing on Windows Sever 2016 in Workgroup environment
Hello to All!
We have a problem with RDS feature on 2016 Server.
Server was deployed with no CALs installed and worked some time in a trial mode. Then owners of this server bought 30 Per User licenses trough SPLA programm and I was asked to activate and install licenses in it.
Before I connect to server I saw that owners are now in procces of deleting grace period registry entry (because grace period has ended and they was in big hurry to make it work again).
After all this and mine (standart activation and installing licenses proccess) manipulations server now did not want to see legal licenses and continuing working in trial mode (grace period still ticking). Last manipulations was to delete grace registry again and reboot the sever (I found similar situation https://www.360ict.nl/blog/no-remote-desktop-licence-server-availible-on-rd-session-host-server-2012/) but it did not helped and now grace period start ticking from beginnig (120 days).
I found info that 2016 server is still can issue Per User CALs to local users in Workgroup environment and made all manipulations with local group policies https://digitalbamboo.wordpress.com/2017/04/05/deploy-remote-desktop-services-in-a-workgroup-easily/ and other stuff and now in diagnostics there have no warning and all green.
Maybe some one faced similar problem or have any suggestions I would be very graceful. I'm desperate already.
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RDS design limitations ?
Hi
I am doing a POC on RDS and I am currently running into some limitations that I hope someone here on the forum can help answer if those are indeed limitations or if what I try to do can be achieved in another way.
Explanation of environment.
1 datacenter site (6 RDS hosts)
11 large branch sites (2-3 RDS hosts in each branch)
Datacenter is publishing applications from central systems running in the datacenter
Branches are publishing applications from system running locally on the branches. Most of these local systems for several reasons have to run locally in the branches and it is mission critical for thin clients and computers running at the same local branch to have access to those local published applications 24/7. That means also when the WAN link to the datacenter should go down.
Published applications must be able to be launched from computers and mobile devices, from the internet. This should be archived with gateways and web access servers placed only in the Datacenter. We don't want to have internet facing servers running on our branch sites. Of course those local published apps on branches can only be launched from internet when the WAN link to the datacenter is up, but this is ok. Critical part is for local clients on the same site as the RDS hosts to be able to launch them if WAN should be down.
Design considerations
Since we don't want an individual deployment for each branch, where we would need internet facing gateway and web access servers on each branch, those should be placed in the datacenter, so the best fitting design here would be the below.
Datacenter: 2 x RDS gateway/Web access servers, 2 x connection broker, license server and 6 RDS hosts.
Branches: 2-3 RDS hosts
Collections: 1 for datacenter and 1 for each of the 11 branches.
This setup however would not allow clients to start locally published applications if the WAN link is down to that branch, since users in that branch cannot reach the Web access and broker in the datacenter.
Questions:
Is there any way around this or any way it could be designed to allow users to start local published apps (not desktops) when users cannot reach the broker and web access servers.
Can you setup that if a broker is not available, the remote apps will still launch, just without load balancing and the feature to reconnect to disconnected sessions. So it should just launch directly against RDS host servers (You could probably use DNS RR to then still get some kind of client distribution across the hosts) ?
When setting up remote desktop clients on phones and computers, they require a URL feed. This is pointed to the Web access server "https://server.domain/rdweb/feed/webfeed/xxxxxx.aspx" does this mean that the web access server is mandatory to even be able to launch remote apps or is there another way to launch them that doesn't rely on the Web access server ?
Thanks
Martin
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Server OS 2016/2019 Session hosts (RDS) problems with Remote Desktop Services is currently busy
Dear colleagues and support.
That is not something that was solved here, I found a couple of similar problems with 2008r2, but it cannot be applied to latest OS. And problem described in other topics are a little different
Our case:
We are using large infrastructure based on many Servers 2012r2 all in one RDS servers (Broker, Web, SH is installed at every server). Many servers published behind some load balancer.
As we have a lot of servers in farm - we have a redirected profiles configured (over GPO) and placed at DFS.
We started testing 2016 servers, and our test group start reporting problems with "Remote Desktop Services is currently busy".
Usually problem solved itself in 1-2 min, user have to try several times before he is able to connect. There was no hanged user sessions or something like this or some useful even log as i can see.
There was no solution for 2016 problem over the internet, so I was hoping to find it with 2019 server.
But we are able to reproduce problem even on "clean", powerful (8 cores, SSD, 32 GB RAM), freshly installed server with single role (RDS) on it for the minimal number of users (1-2 users online)
So that is not something like server load or not enough resources.
I assume it is related somehow to redirected profiles or some service really "busy" with what? But why it is working stable for 2012R2 and has such problem with 2016/2019? May be we can adjust some parameters, timeouts or something like this?
Do we have any workaround for this except disabling redirected profiles or living forever based on 2012 r2 (that is not an option when you have a farm for 1000 users online and many member servers behind balancer)
Many thanks for your ideas!
Regards,
Sergii V
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Exclude file from UPD not working
Hey
I'm trying to exclude this file from the UPD:
Added this in the GUI: \AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat
All new users still have the file included in the UPD file - why?
Michael
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RemoteApp connection window - Cancel button not visible
Hi, on some clients when connecting to a remoteapp the abort button is not displayed correctly.
On one of the clients where this problem is occurring is Windows 10 Enterprise Version 1809 (Build 17763.437) installed. The OS of the RDS-Server is Windows Server 2016 Standard.
Any ideas how to solve the problem?
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Mouse cursor interacting with Remote Desktop App windows on the wrong monitor
We have a WinForms application we use as a remote desktop app and recently we've had multiple users report a situation where clicking on one monitor actually interacts with windows on another monitor. Restarting the remote desktop application seems to fix the problem. Our users have a two monitor setup.
Has anyone else experienced this issue?
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Remote Apps do not display in RDWeb - Remote desktop server 2016
I have a single Remote Desktop Server on the domain.
I have added the server to the RDS Access Servers group on the local server and Active Directory.
All of the Remote Apps are set to be visible in RD Web Access.
I did setup the server and publish the apps prior to adding the Remote Desktop Web Access role.
Joshua Lance
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VDI and RDS
Hello, I've got a question regarding the use of VDI and RDS at the same time.
We managed hotels and most of our front desk computers will be required to use VDI and not RDS due to software that has to be installed at each front desk pc for credit card and room keys and it won't work on RDS since each reader is independent.
My question is if we setup VDI for the front desk computers which will use Dell Wyse ThinOS and then all the other computers in the Hotel are RDS on Dell Wyse ThinOS can we set it up so that if a user logs into a front desk computer it goes to the VDI machine and then if they sign into a back office terminal it goes to the RDS server?
If that's possible do you just have the wyse terminal set to sign into the VDI machine using the vdi hostname or would you still point it to the Broker?
For RDS I've went into the DNS and put in a A record since we have multiple RDS servers. How would this work with VDI?
The other question is what is the difference between buying a VDI license vs just buying a Windows 10 license and putting that on a Hyper-V VM?
Thanks
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