You may want to see which users are logged on to your Windows 2012R2 Server at any given time and may want to logoff a user. Users can be active on a server or in a disconnected session status which means they disconnected from the server but didn’t log off. Since disconnected sessions continue to […]
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Users can create a shortcut on their desktop to the Remote Desktop Connection Client on their local PC to make it easier to login to their remote server. The shortcut can include customization like enabling printer redirection, enabling clipboard (to copy and paste between the server and local PC), hard drive redirection and more. You […]
Adjusting Server Manager settings to it doesn’t automatically start upon login (or turn it back on) Update: the steps below for modifying auto-start for server manager within the server manager GUI will only affect the user account under which it is being set. To change the auto-start behavior for all users to not automatically start, […]
Summary – Hosting desktops in the cloud goes by many names and can be setup in several methods depending on your needs. As you can see below, some setups can be costly from a Microsoft licensing perspective and some setups are better if you wish to share applications among users or alternatively have a completely […]
RDS SUMMARY: We get many questions about Remote Desktop Services on our hosted Windows Servers and below is a summary of many of our blog post, issues and links to helpful solutions and discussions. Most clients that use Remote Desktop Services (RDS) use full “desktop sessions” where each user has their own desktop session to […]
Fixing login problems with Remote Desktop Services If you have having issues logging into a Windows Server with Remote Desktop Services, below are some things to try. For example, some users have seen an error like this when trying to login “Remote Desktop Connection: An authentication error has occurred. The Local Security Authority cannot be […]
We can provide most Microsoft software licensing on a monthly basis through the SPLA program. These licenses are provided on a monthly basis and are easily provisioned. In some situations, you can use your own valid Microsoft volume licenses but there are numerous restrictions. For example, Microsoft Office does not have license mobility rights and […]
If you are using the RemoteApp RDWeb Access website feature (RDweb) in Windows Server 2008 R2 and have client/user PCs that have upgraded to Windows 10, read below. This does not apply if you are using full RDP desktop sessions to login and see a desktop which is what many/most people do – i.e. using RDP client […]
Users often ask if there is way to share documents between users on a remote desktop / terminal server running Windows Server 2012 R2. There are multiple methods to accomplish this and below is one method to consider: All user (administrators and non-administrators) should have permissions to view the documents in the Public User’s “Public […]
Although hosting providers are generally required to provide the Windows Server operating system license via the SPLA program on hosted servers, very few offer the Remote Desktop Services (previously Terminal Services) user licenses (aka CALs/SALs) to their customers. If you are using the Remote Desktop Services role, you are required to have RDS user licenses […]