Remote Desktop Services – Connection Errors (RDP Errors)
Mar07

Remote Desktop Services – Connection Errors (RDP Errors)

 RDP Errors KB ID 0001132   Below is not an exhaustive list of connection errors, it’s just a some things that have tripped me up. If you have a nasty error that you have fixed, feel free to drop me a line, send me some screenshots and the fix, and I’ll add them as well. RDP Errors: General Errors RDP An internal Error Has Occurred This is seen a lot on Windows 11, it’s because of a bug where RDP fails back to use UDP for...

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RDS Gateway Connection Error
Nov29

RDS Gateway Connection Error

KB ID 0001623 Problem I had to deploy a Remote Desktop Gateway Server into an existing RDS farm for a client this week, the RDS farm was presenting Windows Desktops (VDI) from Hyper-V. All went well until I tested the Gateway Server Externally, this is the error I got. Remote Desktop can’t connect to the remote computer ‘server/farm-name} for one of these reasons. 1) Your user account is not listed in the RD...

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FreeRDP Error: 0x2000D
Mar24

FreeRDP Error: 0x2000D

KB ID 0001416 Problem The day after I had deployed some RDP Web access servers, I got the call that all the Linux (Intel NUC Thin clients), could not connect to the RDP farm, all the windows machines were fine? Error [08:19:16:178] [21254:21255] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] – BIO_read returned a system error 14094438:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:tlsv1 alert internal error [08:19:16:178] [21254:21255]...

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Windows Server 2012 R2  – Deploying Remote Desktop Services
Jan18

Windows Server 2012 R2 – Deploying Remote Desktop Services

KB ID 0001136  Problem I’ve had to do a rollout of Remote Desktop Services on Server 2012 R2, and publish it with Active Directory Federation Services and Web Application Proxy. I’m a little rusty on RDS and needed to deploy a few roles, so for my proof of concept I deployed RDS on TWO servers. Below is a run though and my notes on deploying RDS ONLY (I’ll put the links to other articles at the bottom of this post as...

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Windows Server 2012 – RDP Server – How to get the ‘Start / Metro Screen’
Nov17

Windows Server 2012 – RDP Server – How to get the ‘Start / Metro Screen’

KB ID 0000767 Problem When you RDP to a server running Windows Server 2012, in Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Server) mode. How do you get the start menu up? If you press the Windows Key or Ctrl+Esc, you get the menu on YOUR Machine? Solution Firstly, I know it’s not called the ‘Metro Interface’ any more, but that’s what everyone calls it! 1. Drag your mouse pointer off the bottom left hand side of the screen (1)...

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