"Terminal Services" is the name used in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and earlier, for what is in later versions known as "Remote Desktop Services". It allows its users to run applications on a remote server, sending only mouse/keyboard input and screen updates across the network.
Questions tagged [windows-terminal-services]
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Remote Desktop: What is the difference between "Run these programs at logon" and "Start the following program on connection"?
My organization is running a Terminal Server Farm in order to provide a specific application to the users. The setup consists of a AD domain controller plus two Terminal Servers running the Remote Desktop Services. All servers are running Windows…
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Change IP of RDP server for thin clients on Windows domain
I have some HP thin clients in user-mode at a remote site set to use the wrong RDP server, how or what do I change in order to get them to use the new IP? I am remote with no smart hands onsite but could walk through if necessary. Its a Windows…
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I can't find Terminal Services Manager
I am obviously stupid... because I'm logged into this Windows 2003 Server box as administrator, yet when I go under Administrative Tools, I can't find "Terminal Services Manager". Terminal Services are installed... I'm using them right now... and I…
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Thin-client with dual-monitor support
I'm doing a feasibility study on migrating 30 of our in-house researchers from desktop towers to thin-clients. The problem (among others) that I'm facing is that our researchers have grown used to dual-monitors. Can anyone suggest a good thin-client…
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RDWeb TS connection broken for some users post RemoteApp certificate change
We recently reissued our GoDaddy wildcard cert with the SHA256 signing algorithm (FYI they still revoke the old cert in 72 hours even if you don't re-key it, so you should re-key anyway). We use this cert for our RemoteApps, Terminal Servers' RDP,…
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Unable to remove "Run this program as an administrator" (greyed out) with Excel 2010
I have issue with one of the user in Terminal Server 2008 R2 who has "Run this program as an administrator" checked and greyed out with Excel 2010.
This causes UAC to popup requesting for administrator credential whenever user want to start excel.
I…
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2008 R2 RDS Session Host and USB not working after disconnection/reconnect session
We recently deployed a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Session Host for our 2008R2 farm.
The users frequently disconnect from a session at one computer (nurse station) and reconnect to the session from another computer (patient room station). …
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How to deal with the extremely big *.ost files in a Terminal Server environment which is running out of space
Our Terminal Server is running out of hard disk space, and the major files which occupy most of the space are *.ost files of the Outook, which come form the users which use the Terminal Server all the time through remote desktop. The Outlook is…
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TS Gateway support for Mac?
With Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services you can utilise the Terminal Services Gateway Server to allow RDP access over 443, eliminating the need for VPNs or firewall re-configurations for external users.
On windows, you need the RDP client 6.1 to…
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Load balancing inconsistencies & AD server causing network crawl
We've configured a TS load balancing farm consisting of the Active Directory server which acts as the TS Broker and 6 Terminal Servers who are members of the farm. The load balancing is set to basic DNS round robin and is accessed via a common…
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getting message open file security warning on remoteapp
I have an app published on Windows 2008R2 remoteapp.
I am getting this message:
This is how I have the setup of the drive:
Local rdp machine is called rdpvm.
//rdpvm/shared/company1 = i:
//rdpvm/shared/company2 = i:
//rdpvm/shared/company3 …
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Disable File Browsing Chrome/Firefox
Want to publish Firefox or Chrome in a XenApp/RDS environment. However, I can't find any central way to disable file browsing (ie. type c:\ in address bar). In fact, I can't find any great way in general to do this at all with these browsers. This…
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Printing on Remote Desktop session
We have to connect a Windows 2008 server using Remote Desktop from Windows XP machine. A Barcode Printer is attached with XP machine and the printer is shared as Local Resource in RDC session to the server.
On the server we have to print from an…
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terminal server logs off immediately after login
Windows 2003 Data Center edition, member of a domain. 1 user out of over 30 is unable to log in: it logs him off before ever showing the desktop.
Previously, I deleted his profile and then he was able to log in again (which created a new profile for…
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Under CITRIX, why would a user get the message "your smart card is blocked", when it really isn't?
I have a XenApp 5 farm, running under Win2k8 server. Sometimes a user's session will "hang", and when they attempt to connect to CITRIX after that, they'll see the standard authentication error "your smart card is blocked".
If the user sees this on…
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