"Remote Desktop Services" is a component of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and newer. It allows its users to run applications on a remote server, sending only mouse/keyboard input and screen updates across the network. In previous versions of Windows Server it was known as "Terminal Services".
Questions tagged [remote-desktop-services]
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Configure custom SSL certificate for RDP on Windows Server 2012 (and later) in Remote Administration mode?
So the release of Windows Server 2012 has removed a lot of the old Remote Desktop related configuration utilities. In particular, there is no more Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration utility that gave you access to the RDP-Tcp properties…
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How can I view active remote connections (RDP) to a Windows server?
How can I view, who is currently connected to a server (Windows 2012) with a remote desktop client? I am myself connected to this server via RDP.
This question offers a solution to get IP addresses with established connections. I would be interested…
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How can I work around problems with certificate configuration in Remote Desktop Services?
I am setting up a Remote Desktop Services farm, and am having trouble configuring certificates for it to use. A demonstration of the problem I'm seeing can be found in Step #4.
At this point I am convinced that there are problems with the user…
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Can Remote Desktop Services be deployed and administered by PowerShell alone, without a Domain in WIndows Server 2012 and 2012 R2?
Windows Server 2008 R2 allowed deployment of Terminal Server (Remote Desktop Services) without a domain, and without any insistence on domains. This was very useful, especially for standalone virtual or cloud deployments of a server that is managed…
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Mouse cursor jumps around when using RDP
We have over 350 users complaining that their mouse cursor keeps jumping around when typing. It seems like it's happening when the protocol is starved for bandwith, but I'm not quite sure yet.
If it only was the cursor moving it would be fine -…
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How often do you restart a heavily-utilized Windows Server 2008R2 Remote Desktop Server (VM)?
Note: I've read How Often Do Windows Servers Need to be Restarted? but this question pertains to our Remote Desktop server specifically.
We have a Windows Server 2008R2 server - a VMware ESX VM - licensed for Remote Desktop Services, 25 users that…
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How to allow more than two Remote Windows sessions on Windows Server 2012 Standard?
Recently setup a new 2012 server. After I create two Remote Windows connections to the server using ordinary user accounts (not administrators), I get this error when I try to create a third connection:
Select a user to disconnect so you can sign…
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What does shadow /V actually do?
According to shadow:
C:\Users\mark.henderson>shadow /?
Monitor another Remote Desktop Services session.
SHADOW {sessionname | sessionid} [/SERVER:servername] [/V]
sessionname Identifies the session with name sessionname.
sessionid …
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Set-RDSessionCollectionConfiguration Connection Broker connects to localhost
I am running the following command from a PowerShell console on a Windows 8 machine, trying to configure a Server 2012 R2 RDS Connection Broker:
Import-Module RemoteDesktop
Set-RDSessionCollectionConfiguration -CollectionName "Example"…
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Remote assistance from Remote Desktop sessions: unable to control
Since Remote Control (aka Session Shadowing) is gone for good in Server 2012 Remote Desktop Session hosts, I am looking for a replacement to support users in a cross-domain environment.
Since Remote Assistance is supposed to work for Remote Desktop…
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Using tsconfig/tsadmin in Windows Server 2012 locally
I got used to tsconfig.msc and tsadmin.msc (aka Terminal Services Configuration / Terminal Services Administration MMC snapins) from the previous Windows versions and thus profoundly hate the new-style RDMS user interface which is intended as the…
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Find out the bottleneck for windows remote desktop server (Terminal server)
I have Windows server 2008 R2 (SP1) installed on my VMware Host to work as RDS server. Sometimes my remote users can see the lagging/delay on RDS server. Can anyone tell me from their experience what are the best practices to find the bottleneck for…
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Link servers to RD Licencing server
I have around 20 servers that are running at the moment, they are working on the 120 day RDP grace period.
I have now set up a server to act as the licencing server and connection broker.
All these servers are on the same domain.
I was wondering how…
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Connecting to Remote Desktop using proxy and Remote Desktop Gateway?
I have setup a Remote Desktop Gateway server using Windows Server 2012 R2. I am using the Remote Desktop Gateway as an intermediary between to provide the remote desktop session over 443 since 3389 is blocked at many client locations.
However, I ran…
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RDP Client address is unknown when connecting through a gateway
I've come across a showstopper in my magnificent task to create a printer GPO which maps printers inside the TS session based on the RDP client address - the address isn't known when using a gateway server :(
Right-click + status on a session via RD…
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