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...
Terminal Server / Remote Desktop Services Server – Printer Not Working (Adding Print Drivers)
KB ID 0000850 Problem Windows Server 2008 R2 and 2012 are a lot better with printing support over remote desktop, that their predecessors were. But to be able to print to your remote users ‘local’ machines. The TS/RDP server still likes to have the correct drivers installed. What about Easy Print? Easy Print (Introduced with Server 2008 R2) is a ‘proxy’ service that simply sends all print processes to the...
RDS Server – Remove the Shutdown Command
KB ID 0000499 Problem I’m surprised that when you make a server a Terminal Services Server / Remote Desktop Services Server, that this does not get applied from an administrative template anyway, but it does not. Why would you want to do this? Well users are used to hitting Start > Shutdown, when they are finished working, which is fine, unless they are in a terminal session with 500 other users and they’ve just issued...
Windows Server 2008 R2 Deploying Applications with RemoteApp
KB ID 0000528 Problem RemoteApp is a solution for delivering applications to your users from a Remote Desktop Services Server. Why would you want to do this? Imagine you only had one copy of office to update in your entire organisation when a new service pack or security update is released., or Adobe bring out a new version of Dreamweaver that’s on all your machines – you simply update the master copy on the RDS server, or...
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...