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Windows 10 Pro, RDP Server, "An internal error has occurred"

I have a Windows 10 Pro machine that is functioning as a RDP terminal for a single user. This machine was configured more than 2 years ago and has had no major changes made to its configuration, ...
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Remote Desktop Connection Screen is totally black but server is working perfectly

Server is working perfectly but when I do RDC screen is only black. This happened before and I fixed it by powering off the server via KVM/IP, but I don't want do that again. How can I fix this issue. ...
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Remote Desktop on multiple ports

Can you adivse how to enable the Remote Desktop/Terminal services service to listen on two different ports at the same time? ie. I wish to connect using either port 3388 or 3389 This is on a ...
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Port forwarding with Windows Server 2008

I have Windows 2008 server. It works as a mail, ftp, web server. In my LAN there is other server and i want to reach this server with RDC from outside my lan, (example: domail.com:5555 -> 192.168.0.2:...
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\\tsclient share is blank when RDP'ing to remote Windows server

I'm logging into a Windows 2003 system from a Windows 7 workstation using Remote Desktop. I'm aiming to try and copy some files to the server from the client. In the 'local resources' section of the ...
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Printer Recommendation for Three Stooges Environment

I administer a 3 stooges environment. Linux server hardware, Windows Server VMs, Mac clients. My Mac clients RDC to a Windows 2008R2, each client has their own USB printer. The USB printer is ...
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How to configure Windows RDC to use 16-color mode?

I seriously need to minimize the "eye candy" traffic overhead and only leave the graphics quality enough to actually manage the server. I've like to switch to 16 or 256 color mode if possible but the ...
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MSTSC connection quality vs RDS via Connection Broker connection quality

We have a site in the USA which has a fixed VPN into our Datacentre in the UK via a 100Mb Leaseline. Our Datacentre Environment is a 2012 R2 Session Collection of RDS Servers, using Microsoft ...
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How do i reference redirected host drives in a remote desktop session

When I remote desktop into a server, for example, local drives and mapped network drives from my host computer appear as ON . I can access these drives using Windows Explorer, but I also need to ...
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Cannot remote desktop into a non-domain joined workgroup Windows Hyper-V Server 2012R2 [closed]

Installed Hyper-V Server 2012R2 on a server. Did NOT join the server to a windows domain. Via sconfig.cmd I configured the network adapter, enable icmp, verified I could ping other PCs on the same ...
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Windows 7 Multi Monitor RDC Problem

I would like to use all my monitors for the remote session (an option in RDC dialogue) if I connect (from Windows 7) to the one server with Windows 2008 R2 it works OK (I have remote connection on my ...
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Secure Remote Desktop to Windows Server 2008 R2 from Windows XP

To summarize the rambling below: How do I connect (using Remote Desktop Connection) from Windows XP SP3 to Windows Server 2008 R2 (or Windows 7) without clicking the checkbox on the server that says ...
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WinXP RDC connection bar appears like the RDC connection bar for Windows Server 2008?

I have noticed that all of a sudden my RDC Connection Bar and the RDC Console (mstsc dialog) are appearing like their equivalent UI of Windows Server 2008. I am on Win XP and here is what I see when ...
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How do you specify a User or Group for Client Remote Desktop Access?

Existing User in our domain can use RDC to take control over a Windows 7 workstation. When I create a user in Active Directory, an add them to Remote Desktop User, they cannot use RDC : The ...
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Does DFSR include RDC on Windows Server 2008?

I had installed DFSR (DFS replication) on two servers, but recently noticed that there is a separate RDC (Remote Differential Compression) feature in Server Manager, which was not installed. DFSR ...
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Terminal Server Role broke RDC

I was connected into our SBS/2008 Server via RDC (on Windows 7). I wanted to install Terminal Services since we have the CALs and the 2 max concurrent users (administrators) was restrictive. So I ...
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Disconnect vs SIgn Out on Windows RDC

I'm wondering how different end-of-session protocols affect Windows Server performance or anything else. On our Win10 server, users can either "disconnect" or "sign out". I sign out every time after ...
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Cannot Login RDC: An authentication error has occurred (Code: 0x8007001f)

I signed up with Azure and fired up a couple of Windows Server 2012 VMs. As I'm signed up with my Microsoft account and it automatically created a user “karl” (my first name) with my MS account ...
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Preventing local network access on a RDC or LOGMEIN connection...?

I've got what may very well be an amazingly simple question (or not). Basically at the office we're using RDC and LOGMEIN-CENTRAL to manage access to computers. This allows branch offices access to ...
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Kaspersky blocked RDC on Windows - how to fix?

I installed Kaspersky Endpoint security, but as soon as the installer finished, my remote desktop connection broke and I wasn't able to login anymore. Seems that Kaspersky firewall blocks RDC ports ...
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Network performance issues on windows 7

One of my machines has started to get serious networking issues. This all started to happen suddenly although I am not aware of any specific changes made to the machine. It is running Windows 7. Some ...
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Is web browsing in a remote session on windows server 2008 safe?

I am thinking about having employees use a remote desktop connection to connect to the server running windows server 2008 r2 to access programs and run programs from the server. The majority of their ...
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Remote Desktop Connection

If I am asking on the wrong stack exchange site, please let me know. We have a remote server that we connect to using Remote Desktop Connection. It works when we enter the IP address 192.x.x.x . The ...
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DFS Replication server role and Remote Differential Compression feature

In Microsoft documentation about DFS Replication is written that DFS Replication uses Remote Differential Compression algorithm for efficient data replication. But when you install the DFS Replication,...
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Remote Desktop Connection: "This computer can't connect to the remote computer"

I'm unable to connect remotely to one of a number of servers on the network running 2012 R2 using the Windows RDC client. Here is the error: So far I've done the following: Ping the server in ...
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Win Server 2008: RDC to Win7 Pro machine not authenticating user password

I am running WinServer 2008 and am trying to RDC into other machines within the network. I am able to ping the machine and trying to connect via RDC does bring up the Remote authentication dialog for ...
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Multiple computers in SBS domain that need a Remote Desktop Connection with a sub domain

I've been searching the internet for a while for this answer. I have a bunch of computers that are part of a small business server domain and would like to be able to connect to each one individually ...
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Putty connection error but RDC working fine [Windows 7]

I wanted to establish a RDC from my Windows 7 machine to a remote server (Server version: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.2p2 Ubuntu-4ubuntu2.4). I followed and adapted the instructions from: http://laptops.eng....
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how do I troubleshoot rdp

I have one Windows XP SP3 pc on the domain that I cannot rdp into. The xp pc is enabled for rdp sessions. Port 3389 is open in the firewall. There are no errors in the event logs. I have tried to rdp ...
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The RDP protocol component "DATA ENCRYPTION" detected an error in the protocol stream and has disconnected the client

I have a W 2K3 Terminal Server which most of my computers can connect to without a problem. There is one computer which always fails and says: The client could not establish a connection to the ...
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Remote Desktop Connection through VPN

A little about our setup and what I'm trying to do: All machines in question running Windows 8.1 Pro Remote machine users connect to our internal network with Cisco Systems VPN Client 5.0.07.0440 ...
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RDP randomly slows to a crawl (not tcp autotuning)

Most of the time my RDC works perfectly. Sometimes it slows to a complete crawl and I cannot even get my mouse clicks to register on the remote computer. The client computer is Windows XP, so there'...
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RDC client access permissions

I've got this annoying problem in setting up a WIN2008R2-server as a TS-Server. Basically, I've got everything up and working and have tested the connectivity of the RDC clients I've added through ...
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Adding users from DC to remote desktop users

How to add a user from DC to allowed remote desktop users for certain PC? It lets me choose only users on local machine, although I am connected with a user defined in DC server. A domain user. Even ...
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Logging into Windows Server via RDC Takes Too Long

My group uses a Windows 2016 server. I log in via RDC - after I hit "OK" on the notification that this is a production box, I have to wait 10-15 minutes before I can use the machine. This behavior is ...
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Copy configuration between multiple RDC sessions

I have a requirement to configure 25 remote desktop sessions identically ready for users to connect and start using them. The type of config that is needed is things like browsing to a site and ...
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Problems with RDC into Win2008 Server

I'm having the same problem with a variety of new machines that I have built. When I RDC into the machine, the display does not update correctly. I get partial images, or refreshes only every 20-30 ...
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RDP-ing or RDC-ing [closed]

I have always used the terminology RDP-ing when describing connecting to a remote desktop. Today I heard a colleague use the term RDC-ing, which triggered a debate. I have not been able to find any ...
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Safe to Disconnect during RDC Logoff

I'm on a windows server (10 I believe) that I use via RDC. I usually sign out, but this takes at least 5-10 minutes. It's always stuck on the blue screen "Please Wait for the User Profile Service." So ...
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RemoteApp isn't working [closed]

Today I got bit with an issue with published applications (via RemoteApp). Clients were complaining about RDP. You could connect to the server, run the application from there, but you could not run ...
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