Remote Desktop Web – Session Timeouts (Altering)
Jul04

Remote Desktop Web – Session Timeouts (Altering)

KB ID 0001215  Problem Timeouts for the RDWeb portal are defined by the choice you made when you logged in, if you selected ‘private’ or ‘public’ on the PC options, this sets the timeout. The default is 240 mins for private, and 20 minutes for public connections. Solution To alter these values you need to make changes in the ‘Internet Information Services Management Console’ on the RDWeb server....

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Windows RDWeb – Remote Desktop Shortcut Missing
Jun23

Windows RDWeb – Remote Desktop Shortcut Missing

KB ID 0001208  Problem  As soon as you start publishing apps to your RDWeb server the ‘Remote Desktop’ icon disappears. Now there’s a good reason for this, it stops users having a desktop open, then opening apps on multiple different servers, and the whole thing turning into a resources nightmare. But what if you only have one RDS server?  Solution To get the shortcut back you need to change a registry key. Navigate...

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Remote Desktop Web Access – Connection Error
Jan22

Remote Desktop Web Access – Connection Error

KB ID 0001141  Problem Eleven days! That’s how long it took to fix this, after seven days, I bit the bullet and logged a call to Microsoft. I spent hours on the phone to the Remote Desktop Team, The Web Application Proxy Team, and the Networking Team. I replicated the error by building a complete new domain, PKI, ADFS, Remote Desktop Deployment and Web Application Proxy Server. Then today I got a call from the...

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Remote Desktop Services – RemoteApp Error ‘The remote computer could not be found. Please contact your helpdesk about this error’
Nov17

Remote Desktop Services – RemoteApp Error ‘The remote computer could not be found. Please contact your helpdesk about this error’

KB ID 0000768 Problem While attempting to launch a web app from a Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Services (Terminal) server. Clients were greeted with the following; RemoteApp Disconnected The remote computer could not be found. Please contact your helpdesk about this error. Solution 1. On the Server, Start > RD Gateway Manager > Locate your server > right click > properties > Server farm > Type in the FQDN of...

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Install and Configure Remote Desktop Services (Web Access)
Nov17

Install and Configure Remote Desktop Services (Web Access)

KB ID 0000104 Problem Originally we had TS Web in 2003, and while I had a little play with it, it basically just gave you RDP over web, which would have been good if it ran over HTTP or HTTPS, but it didn’t. Also, as anyone who has ever done a complex Google search for “/tsweb” will testify, left a nice big security hole in to your servers. With the release of Server 2008 we got TSWeb 2008, this was a whole different...

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