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Local administrator temporary profile after add server to RDS session host group

Two weeks ago we have to install a new server (Windows S. 2012R2) as terminal server. There was ServerA ; ServerB; and now ServerC We tried to clone the ServerB to ServerC but because of issue with ...
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RDP to Virtual Machine now asking for user sign in

We have a Windows Server 2012 VM that I installed a product on: Smart Bear TestExecute(v15.43 - latest): https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/other-tools/testexecute.html I was trialling ...
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Windows Server RDP session keeps killing AudioSrv (audiodg.exe) leading to audio startup delays

Running Windows Server 2012 R2 I have noticed an annoying feature on RDP connections: Windows keeps killing the Audio Service audiodg.exe if it is idle for more than 5 minutes. The problem with this ...
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Server 2012R2 Remote Desktop all non-admin users are logged off immediately without getting to desktop

I have Windows Server 2012R2 virtual servers connected to an Active Directory domain. The servers accept both domain user/pass and domain Smart Card logins. All administrative accounts/users can log ...
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Problems trying to access my VM [closed]

I have a VM running on Google Cloud which I access remotely using an .rdp icon. Starting last week I´m frequently getting the message "Remote Desktop Connection ‘Internal Error has Occurred’"...
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How to use remote app on local computer [closed]

Hi is there any way that I can use any remote app on my local computer Using RDP, CLI, web browser or in any other way, I don't want to access remote PC directly I just want to access the Application, ...
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Windows 2012 R2 Builtin/Remote desktop users AD group not working

Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Users AD Group Not Working Hi I have a query on the answer given for the question in the above link I have added users to builtin "Remote Desktop Users" in ...
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Accessing Remote Desktop through VPN on Windows Server 2012 r2

We have 2 networks at my current workplace - an administrative network everyone uses and a "lab" network which only engineers, scientists, and developers use. I have control over all servers and PCs ...
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RDP connection timeout when host is under cpu load

For over 3 years I have routinely observed the following: while our server is busy compressing backups (7z, all cores, idle priority), the first attempt to RDP to any other computer on the local ...
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remote desktop disconnects when i connect to vpn on remote server

I have a VPS running windows server 2012 R2. I need to connect to a VPN throw L2TP on this machine. I connect to this server with remote desktop and everything is good. Also I created VPN connection. ...
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Possibility to recover from majority of C:\windows being deleted

So I have an interesting and somewhat fun scenario. A developer was working on some scripts that have worked in the past when run by him which deleted files in the working directory, but supposedly ...
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Remote Desktop SSO 2012 R2

The client and server are using Active Directory - when connecting using Remote Desktop, "Your Windows logon credentials will be used to connect" is shown but the login screen is still being shown. Re-...
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Windows server users private remote desktop?

This may be a really stupid question, and if so I apologize. I was recently introduced to a "remote desktop" to a windows server, where the user account seemed to have his/her own private VPS type ...
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EventId 4625 without IP Address in Windows Server 2012 R2

I am registering all RDP logon failures on my Windows servers through the IP address. In Windows Server 2012 R2, in Event 4624 the Event Viewer shows me the IP, while in Event 4625 it does not. I ...
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RDSH logon is hanging at 'Please wait for remote desktop configuration'

RDSH logon is hanging at 'Please wait for remote desktop configuration'. Can anybody tell me what it's actually doing at this stage? It will proceed eventually but we're talking like 5-10 minutes of ...
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Cannot transfer large file(s) using remote desktop connection (Windows 2012 server)

I am trying to transfer over a large file using remote desktop. I end up getting this error from the image below. Source computer is a windows 7 laptop and destination is a windows 2012R2 server. ...
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User cannot connect to 2012 R2 session deployment, session with no name created and stuck

We have this week, started having an issue on one or two of our remote desktop session host servers running 2012 R2, whereby when a user attempts to login, they are stuck on one of the login messages ...
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Reporting Event Log content via triggered Email Windows 2012

I am able to send email based on event log triggering a Task Scheduler action which runs a powershell script. However, I am unable to pass any of the important data that this event carries. Like for ...
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Excessive Remote Desktop Login Attempts

Running Windows 2012 server with IIS 8. Windows Security Log This log shows ~40,000 failed login attempts in a 6 hour period/over 160,000 per day. Example Data My Server IP Addresses ***** Failed ...
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Resetting an expired password on Windows RDS session

I have an RDS solution for one of our customers. There is a session collection serving desktops via an RD Gateway and there are a handful of session host servers; all load balanced etc. It works a ...
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A temporary profile created by service if User Profile Disk of RDS collection is enabled

I configured Remote Desktop Service on Server 2012 R2, and enabled User Profile Disk on the RDS collection. Then I configured a Windows service and assign a user account (say MyUser) as the logon ...
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Storage of User Profile Disks on file server cluster (SOFS or normal)

We are looking to deploy a new file server cluster, one of the things of which to be stored on it, will be Server 2012 R2 remote desktop User Profile Disks (UPDs). My question is, is it best practice ...
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Windows, IIS, Remote Desktop: after disabling insecure ciphers for ssl, I cannot login with remote desktop [closed]

In the process of setting up an HTTPS website and in the best practices of it, firstly I disabled ssl v3 (no problem with that) and then I disabled older insecure ciphers and only enabled: ...
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Windows 2012 Remote Desktop License error

I am exactly in this situation: Windows 2012 remote access can't connect The RDS role was installed erroneously, and the grace period to decide the licensing mode was left to expire; when I ...
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How to log on to Windows Server 2012 if password has expired

I have a Windows Server 2012 instance on which there is only one administrator account (which is not the default admin account) and the password for this account has expired. The default admin account ...
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"Access is denied" message after logging in to windows 2012 r2 via remote desktop

I installed the Remote Desktop Session Host server role on a windows 2012 r2 machine. After that, I rebooted the VM and now when I try to log in via remote desktop, after a little while in the log in ...
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Windows remote desktop goes blank on miminize

I have a few users that connect to my server via vnc and share the desktop to work together on a few things work related. I stay connected via remote desktop and they might continue working on our ...
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Log into Read-Only Domain Controller as administrator without connectivity to Primary Domain Controller

OK, I'm in a bit of a pickle. At one of our remote sites, we have a Windows Server 2012 R2 read-only domain controller that does not sync Domain Admin passwords. Anytime a domain admin tries to log ...
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Remote desktop services deployment has vanished - Server 2012 R2

I've been working on a new solution recently which is basically a 2012 R2 RDS Farm. In a nutshell, the users RDP to the connection broker which in turn passes their connection out to one of the ...
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Unable to login to server using RDP after server left domain

I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 which is a member of an AD domain. I need to disjoin it from the domain and make it a stand-alone server. I have local accounts on the server and can log into them ...
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Hyper-V Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

We're designing a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) on Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 Remote Desktop Services using Windows 7 clients and I need some information on how it works in order to see if how we ...
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Unable To RDP To VM Host On External Network

Weird problem here that occurs on all servers i roll out for clients. I am unable to RDP to the VM host using Windows RDP, teamviewer, tight VNC, etc. Just hangs on "initiating remote connection" ...
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Unable to Remote Desktop into Windows 2012 R2 Kimsufi Server Due to Possible Windows Hibernation

I recently set up a Windows Server on Kimsufi's dedicated server plan. I was able to successfully get it up and running and was able to successfully remote desktop into the server. After updating the ...
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Configure NLA to not use client-side credentials check

Situation: Using a Windows 10 workstation, that's in the domain OFFICE, I initiate a RDP connection using smart card logon and certificates to a RDS gateway in a foreign domain REMOTE. The foreign ...
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Restrict each client to one session per user?

I would like to restrict each client to one session per user. Currently I have group policy set to allow for an unlimited number of sessions per user however I cannot set group policy, as far as I ...
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How do I deactivate an RDS License from a crashed licensing server?

One of my licensing servers crashed (SRV01). I can't deactivate it because its down and when I open the licensing diagnoser on a server in the same RDS collection it says SRV01 is not available (...
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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 ...
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Language Bar Disappears After Terminating a Shadow Remote Desktop Connection to a User in Windows Server [2012 R2 in my case]

Essentially, the question is the way it is. The bug has been out there for quite a while but it doesn't seem to be a specific way to get rid of it. I've been able to find some stuff both in Russian ...
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Clearing remote desktop user restriction of 2 concurrent users

I am using a Microsoft Azure VM with Windows 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition for developing application with my team. Sometimes there also have to log in some colleagues from db or reporting team. But then ...
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User profile disks still active after removing roles

I wanted to try out all the remote desktop roles on my server, so I did a hyper-v install of Windows Server 2012 R2 datacenter on my server which also runs Windows Server 2012 R2 datacenter. However I ...
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Unable to deploy RD Gateway

I was just trying to deploy my RD Gateway but it failed. The deployment shows succeeded, but the RD Gateway icon doesn't grey out. That means i can still redeploying it again and again. So i went to ...
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How do I prevent having two profiles when remoting to the AD server?

When remoting to the AD server running 2012R2 using a domain account, the server syncs the profile to itself, making the profile consume twice it's space on the server. The users folder will look ...
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Wrong credential when connecting to Remote Desktop

I have been working on this issue for the past week without any success. Here's what's happening, I use Global SonicWall to VPN in, then I go through our internal firewall. Everything works perfectly ...
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How do I connect to an RDS sessionhost farm without DNSRR

I have an RDS deployment on Windows server 2012 R2. There is 1 connection broker, which also has the RDWeb roles installed. There are 2 session host servers; Lets call them shost1 and shost2. I ...
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Troubleshooting "log on to" workstation access

I have added a server srv09 to the "logOnWorkstations" for an active directory account adAccount1. It previously had 8 other server names in the field and the account can access them, but Remote ...
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Connecting a AWS Window 2012 R2

So I found remote desktop unusable on a AWS Windows 2012 server, I'm unable to connect via remote desktop. I have the admin credentials, but without remote desktop I found myself unable to logging ...
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Denied permission of a symbolic link to a shared folder

I use Microsoft Remote Desktop to connect my Mac to Microsoft Azure VM. I follow this thread (apple.stackexchange.com/a/140506/20747) to share a Mac folder named Music with the VM. It works fine, here ...
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Error adding RDS license to a server

I have an RDS license for 100 users. I successfully assigned it to one RDS server without issue, but when I tried it on another server I get an error. Open RD Licensing Manager Right click the ...
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Printer Permission in RDS envirement

I have a problem in the print management in a multi-site environment, where all users use remote desktop sessions on a HQ server (Win2012R2). All printers are network printers, installed with TCP/IP ...
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Remote Desktop 2012 R2 performance lacks when multiple sessions are open

We have a performance issue on our Virtual Windows 2012 R2 server that is configured as a Remote Desktop Server. Also a customer of us, that uses our software, is facing the same problem on a 2012 R2 ...
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