Posts Tagged ‘Remote Desktop Services’

How to troubleshoot Logon Attempt Failed messages when connecting through RD Gateway

Microsoft RDS Team published an article about logon attempt failed messages when connecting through RD Gateway. Single Sign-On (SSO) was working well internally, but externally (by using Remote Desktop Gateway), it was not working and resulted in continuous logon attempt failed error messages: To start working on this issue, first test to see if you are being redirected by going to the

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How to restrict users from accessing local drives of an RD Session Host server while using RemoteApp programs

Pankaj Pande published an article on RDS Microsoft blog describing how to restrict users from accessing local drives on a RD session. Currently, when a user creates an RDP session or a RemoteApp program, they can see, and in some cases transverse, drives C and D of the RD Session Host server. They can also save anything on the desktop,

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How to resolve the issue “Remote Desktop Disconnected” or “Unable to Connect to Remote Desktop (Terminal Server)”

Microsoft RDS Team published an article about one of the recurring issues seen in product support: why a client cannot connect. Specifically, errors such as “Unable to RDP,”  “Remote Desktop Disconnected,” or “Unable to Connect to Remote Desktop (Terminal server)”  are common problems . This article summarizes the various causes for Terminal Server Client (Remote Desktop Client) connection failures and

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Configuring Virtual Display Adapters for Virtual Machines on a RemoteFX Server

Microsoft RDS Team published a blog post that describes the new Remote Desktop Services Windows PowerShell cmdlets, introduced in the Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 timeframe, that configure virtual display adapters for virtual machines on a RemoteFX-enabled RD Virtualization Host server. For a given Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) host to be able to support many users and target the full range

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Configuring Remote Desktop licensing settings on a Remote Desktop Virtualization Host server

Microsoft RDS Team published a blog post introduceing the Windows PowerShell cmdlets for configuring Remote Desktop licensing settings on a RemoteFX-enabled RD Virtualization Host server in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. Until Windows Server 2008 R2, in a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployment, the RD Virtualization Host server was not aware of licensing settings because only the RD Session Host server

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Centralized Licensing Management for Microsoft VDI

Microsoft has published an article that introduces the new Centralized Licensing Management work, implemented in Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) as a part of the RemoteFX feature, for centrally managing the licensing configuration in a Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployment. This post assumes that you have a basic understanding of the following: Windows PowerShell Various Remote Desktop

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Remote Desktop Connection Broker Scalability Testing Results

Summary Microsoft, in lab environment, is able to achieve more than 10,000 individual virtual machine (VM) run-time connections over a two-hour period. These tests show the range of scale possible with Remote Desktop Connection Broker (RD Connection Broker). Within the connection process, the overall time measured is overwhelmingly determined by the VM start and protocol connection time. RD Connection Broker

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Customize RDP settings for Virtual Desktops

Microsoft has introduced a new MMC snap-in tool called Remote Desktop Connection Manager in Windows Server 2008 R2 for managing the in-box VDI solution from Microsoft. In this blog, I will explain how you can specify various RDP settings for the virtual desktops published using this tool. You can specify a different set of RDP settings for each type of virtual

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