When you add programs on a Terminal Server, you should follow the directions below by going to Control Panel -> Programs -> “Install Application on Remote Desktop…” You can see the Microsoft article on this here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc742815.aspx (shown for 2008R2, same process in 2012R2) Also see this: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff432698.aspx See our RDP youtube video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5Wx0i8Mv60 <iframe […]
Tag: Windows Server 2008R2
Windows Server comes with Internet Explorer (you are also free to download another browser of your choice such as Chrome or Firefox). Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration (IE ESC) is a security feature that can be enabled or disabled. If enabled, when you open IE you will see something like this “Internet Explorer Enhanced Security […]
If you are prevented from logging on to your server via RDP and receive a message that the maximum number of connections have been exceeded, see steps below to login to the special session to then disconnect the other user sessions: 1. Open Command Prompt on your local windows computer 2. Type: mstsc /admin 3. […]
If you have noticed that your windows server has a lot of files in the folder ProgramDataMicrosoftWindowsWERReportQueue you can delete them to free up space on your drive. It is recommended using “Disk Cleanup” to free up the space. To disable the files from accumulating you can turn Windows Error Reporting off. On a Windows 2008R2 […]
Last week we had a customer who’s Windows 2008 R2 server stopped responding after selecting to restart the server. If updates are allowed to be applied when rebooting your server will try updating. In this case the server started applying server updates and was stuck at 32% for several hours and displayed the following Please […]