RDS 2012 (non-R2) Unable to Logoff/Reset/Kill A Disconnected Session

I am running a Remote Desktop Services deployment with HA on Windows Server 2012 (not R2). This occurs weekly for me, a user will be logged into server running a remote application, the user will report that they were disconnected during their session
and when they try to reconnect they are unable to do so. On the server side the user will either have a disconnected OR a couple days old active session (which should not be possible as I have GPO session time limits configured to kill the session in
12 hours). I have tried to kill the session may different ways:
1) Task Manager > Users Tab > Right click logoff
2) Server Manager > RDS > Collection > Right click user and select logoff
3) Open CMD run - rwinsta ## (## being the user
session ID)
4) Open CMD run - logoff ## (##
being the user session ID)
5) Open CMD run - reset session
rdp-tcp#XX (XX being the user rdp-tcp# session ID)
All of this yields no result, i
have also opened task manager and killed all running applications however this leaves
a few running applications: rdpclip.exe, taskhostex.exe, rdpinit.exe, rdpshell.exe, mstsc.exe
when i try to kill these, I get a warning that this
may cause the server to shutdown OR access denied.
Has anyone found a solution to this problem?

Hi,
Did you receive any useful event id during this issue?
Have you applied group policy session setting for computer configuration or User configuration?
Note: If both the Computer Configuration and the User Configuration policy settings are configured, the Computer Configuration policy settings take precedence.
Also recheck whether there is setting applied under collection properties. In addition, try below PowerShell command with sysinternal tools (psexec) whether it will work for you.
psexec [\\computer[,computer2[,...] | @file]][-u user [-p psswd][-n s][-r servicename][-h][-l][-s|-e][-x][-i [session]][-c [-f|-v]][-w directory][-d][-<priority>][-a n,n,...] cmd [arguments]
You can download the Software from here.
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki
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Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
Please read below for clarification.
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HI,
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Hello, Niek
Slenders.
Your problem very similar to us. We are using RDS on Windows Server 2012 R2 and RD Clients are Windows 7. Using Profile Disks too.
Main problems :
1). Print Spooler crashing. We enabled execution of Print Drivers in isolated process Group Policies. Learn
more.
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Hello fapw,
Thanks for your response. It is very detailed and i'm sure it will help us.
1) Already enabled isolation mode in case it were bad drivers. But the spooler keeps chrashing.
2) Just as we are experiencing. Thanks for pointing out the registery location. This might a great shot during the next maintenance window.
3) We have not yet seen this issue. Might be because we use the internet printing role and the users connect trough the webpage.
4) Hasn't been an issue so far. But good to know.
Will keep you updated.
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We have an RDS 2012 setup. 2 Servers. Both session hosts. only 1 is the broker. Cert from official CA.
My authentication is set to ONLY allow devices with Network Level Authority. I don't want to remove this.
Windows XP and Windows 7 can connect both internally, and externally via the RDWeb address perfectly fine, but all Win8 machines get the error "An authentication error has occurred. Code 0x607.
Can anyone please advise why?
Many thanks

Hi,
I have seen other similar cases got resolved by setting the encryption level to low and security layer to Negotiate.
Here is a thread below:
An authentication error has occured (Code: 0x607)
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/94780a11-23ba-4a3c-b11a-734007c2d2fd/an-authentication-error-has-occured-code-0x607?forum=winserverTS
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Users see all applications in RDS 2012 Web access in one-way trust domain environment

Hello!
We have RDS 2012 deployment in domainA.local. There is a one-way trust between domainA.local and domainB.local: A trusts B and B doesn't trust A.
A user from domainB.local authenticates in Web-access interface (wa.domainA.local) and sees
every published application in every collection in the deployment independently of UserGroups setting of collections and applications. This occurs for any domainB user.
In the security log of wa.domainA.local we can find an event :
An account failed to log on.
Subject:
Security ID:                IIS APPPOOL\RDWebAccess
Account Name:                RDWebAccess
Account Domain:                IIS APPPOOL
Logon ID:                0x2C7B16
Logon Type:                        3
Account For Which Logon Failed:
Security ID:                NULL SID
Account Name:
Account Domain:
Failure Information:
Failure Reason:                An error occurred during logon
Status:                        0xC000005E
Sub Status:                0x0
Also in network trace on wa.domainA.local kerberos error could be found:
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Any help would be appreciated.

Hi,
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Please check below links might useful for your case.
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Anyone seen this before???
Joe Gomez

Hello,
Thanks for your response.
1. Windows Server 2012
2. it appears that it is connecting then it times out after about 30-40 second.
3. "Remote Desktop can't connect to the remote computer for one of the these resons:"
Remote access to the server is not enabled.
The remote computer is turned off.
The remote computer is not avalible on the network.
Make sure the remote computer is turned on and is connected to the network and that remote access is enabled.
4. I will try the a non customized RDWEB page.
5. Our users have a range of RDP clinet version, I will make sure that these having the problem are on 6.3.9600
6. Yes they use the Connect to Remote PC feature to connect to a physical PC in the office.
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Joe
Joe Gomez

Open IE slow in RDS 2012

Hi Guys,
Today one of the users connected to the RDS 2012 server. And she found that it took about 5 minutes to open the IE explorer. We deployed the RDS 2012 with session mode and other users worked well in this RDS server except this user.

Hi,
Before deleting user profile, please try the following steps to see whether it can resolve your case.
- Please make sure IE Enhanced security is disabled for Users in Server Manager
- Try running following command in user account with add-ons disabled.
iexplore.exe –extoff
If this helps then perform additional troubleshooting to determine which addon is causing the problem.
- Try resetting IE settings to default under the test user account through Tools--Internet Options--Advanced tab--Reset button.
- See if turning off Smartscreen filtering makes any difference
- You can also try using process monitor as administrator and see whether user session is trying to access iexplorer.exe to different folders/registry keys/etc. that the user does not have access to.
- Try lower version of IE and see whether it makes any difference.
For more details, you can refer below article.
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How do you configure a farm name in RDS 2012?

I understand Remote Desktop Services has undergo some drastric changes.
How do you configure a farm name in RDS 2012? Or is the concept around farm name changed in another concept?
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Boudewijn Plomp, BPMi Infrastructure & Security

You don't. You create a collection. A client connects to the Connection Broker and then is redirected to the collection it is connecting to. The collection name is embedded in the connection file that the client downloads from RDWeb or
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PLEASE HELP me select new internal hard drive for Macbook Pro 2012 (non-retina)

Good afternoon.
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I want to replace the hard drive with a 1 tb hard drive, preferably something that is $100 or less.
I talked to Other World Computing (OWC) and looked at the Data Doubler Option to replace the optical drive with a Solid State drive, but decided that for now I want to keep the optical drive inside the computer for portability issues.
I know that Solid State drives are better, but they are still too small, and I want the ease and portability of a 1 tb size INSIDE my computer.
Initially I was going to order this from Other World Computing: 1.0TB 2.5" HGST Travelstar 7K1000 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 9.5mm Notebook Drive 32MB Cache. *'New' Factory Replacement with 2+ Year HGST Warranty*    As of April 4, 2014 it's on sale for $79
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I saw on Amazon the Seagate 1TB Solid State Hybrid Drive SATA 6Gbps 64MB Cache 2.5-Inch ST1000LM014 It's on sale for $94.
But according to some reviews, this Seagate has a platter that is only 5400rpm, unlike the previous Seagate Momentum that has a platter speed of 7200rpm.
How reliable are the Seagate, versus a Toshiba or Western Digital or Hitachi or something else?
Here are my questions about replacing the hard drive:
1. Is a hybrid solid state drive going to need some kind of special formatting after I put it into the macbook so that I can put the operating system on it?
2. Is a "normal" platter hard drive more reliable than a hybrid solid state drive?
3. Is there any additional driver or special software that I have to install for a hybrid solid state drive?
4. Currently there is no personal data stored on the computer. Can I just put the new hard drive in, and then insert the snow leopard install cd?
5. If I install snow leopard, can I just go to the App store and get the free upgrade to Mavericks?
6. If I want to do the "Data Doubler" option in the future and add a normal Solid State drive into my computer, will it have trouble interacting with the 1 tb hybrid solid state drive?
I would love to get some recommendations about the smartest option to upgrade my hard drive with something that will be fast (I edit lots of photos) and large (1 tb) that isn't going to cost too much. I don't know much about the different brands or options (and there are so many listed in tons of online reviews), that I got really overwhelmed and confused by the info out there.
I would really appreciate any help and advice. I've never switched out a hard drive before.
PLEASE HELP !!! Thanks!
Here is the "About this Mac" Info:
Macbook Pro 15-in Mid 2012
Model Identifier: MacBookPro9,1
Processor: 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Software: OS x 10.8.5
Storage (Hard drive): APPLE HDD ST500LM012 Media, Rotational, SATA, GPT (GUID Partition Table)

1. Is a hybrid solid state drive going to need some kind of special formatting after I put it into the macbook so that I can put the operating system on it?
The boot drive, regardless of what it is, needs to be formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). This is standard with OS X.
2. Is a "normal" platter hard drive more reliable than a hybrid solid state drive?
There are arguments pro and con. Bottom line, SSD's and hybrid drives are still quite expensive per GB than standard hard drives. If you have the bucks and are a speed demon, go ahead.   I have better use for my money.   Standard hard drives are mechanical and may wear out over time. But even though SSDs are not mechancial, they can still go bad and ultimately they even have a limit to their write capacity. The jury is still out on this debate.
3. Is there any additional driver or special software that I have to install for a hybrid solid state drive?
No
4. Currently there is no personal data stored on the computer. Can I just put the new hard drive in, and then insert the snow leopard install cd?
You can physically put the hard drive in but probably not install Snow Leopard on this MBP.
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5. If I install snow leopard, can I just go to the App store and get the free upgrade to Mavericks?
Not via Snow Leopard on this MBP. See my response to #4.
6. If I want to do the "Data Doubler" option in the future and add a normal Solid State drive into my computer, will it have trouble interacting with the 1 tb hybrid solid state drive?
No. They are completely independent of each other; they are just independent storage units (drives) and their RAM does not interact.

Installed the RDS 2012 Server License per user CAL (5pcs) after not allow over two users remote desktop connection problem

I have successfully to installed the RDS 2012 Server R2 per user CAL (5pcs) Open License after is found not allow over two users to remote desktop connection on this Server problem, I try to uninstall the license and then (internet on-line & telephone
call Microsoft Activate Center get the activate key) to reinstall is still same of the result on below problem.
Select a user disconnect so that you can sign in.
There are too many users signed in
User1 Active
User2 Active
() Force disconnect of the user

Hi,
In addition you can also refer following article for RDL configuration.
RD Licensing Configuration on Windows Server 2012
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2013/09/20/rd-licensing-configuration-on-windows-server-2012.aspx
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki
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I want to daisy chain my 15 inch mid 2012 non retina macbook pro to a 2012 27inch imac and then to a 27 inch thunderbolt display

I have a mid 2012 non retina 15inch macbook pro, and a 27inch 2012 imac, and a 27inch thunderbolt dsplay and I want to use the imac and the thunderbolt display as dual monitors for my macbook pro and daisy chain them together. I have an extra thunderbolt cable, How would I go about doing this, every time I try to connect it via Target Display mode it only shows up on the imac and the thunderbolt diplay shows the imac screen but I cannot access anything on it. I would love some help, I am probably just missing something simple.

Yes there is on Mac computers that do not come from the factory with "Built In", Note the Words Built In, DVD drive.
On all Mac computers that come with Built In DVD drive Apple has Restricted the installation of Windows from ONLY That Built In drive and Only when it is Physically installed inside the system.
Many people have tried what you want to do and to my knowledge None have been successful.
It is something that is Hard Wired, Written, into the Firmware of these Mac computers.
Some have tried installing Windows on the standard HDD and then moving that HDD to the optical bay or leaving it in the main bay and installing a SSD into either the main drive bay or optical bay and have been greeted with the system not booting to either OS or not booting to Windows.
Something about how boot camp sets up the drive and possibly makes changes to the Firmware or EFI partition on the drive that Windows is installed to or to both that restrict it. You can't even make another Mac OS X partition on that drive without screwing up the Windows install.
To your last post the Answer is NO as stated above.

Best practice for RDGW placement in RDS 2012 R2 deployment

Hi,
I have been setting up a RDS 2012 R2 farm deployment and the time has come for setting up the RDGW servers. I have a farm with 4 SH servers, 2 WA servers, 2 CB servers and 1 LS.
Farm works great for LAN and VPN users.
Now i want to add two domain joined RDGW servers.
The question is; I've read a lot on technet and different sites about how to set the thing up, but no one mentions any best practices for where to place them.
Should i:
- set up WAP in my DMZ with ADFS in LAN, then place the RDGW in the LAN and reverse proxy in
- place RDGW in the DMZ, opening all those required ports into the LAN
- place the RDGW in the LAN, then port forward port 443 into it from internet
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Hi,
The deployment is totally depends on your & company requirements as many things to taken care such as Hardware, Network, Security and other related stuff. Personally to setup RD Gateway server I would not prefer you to select 1st option. But as per my research,
for best result you can use option 2 (To place RDG server in DMZ and then allowed the required ports). Because by doing so outside network can’t directly connect to your internal server and it’s difficult to break the network by any attackers. A perimeter
network (DMZ) is a small network that is set up separately from an organization's private network and the Internet. In a network, the hosts most vulnerable to attack are those that provide services to users outside of the LAN, such as e-mail, web, RD Gateway,
RD Web Access and DNS servers. Because of the increased potential of these hosts being compromised, they are placed into their own sub-network called a perimeter network in order to protect the rest of the network if an intruder were to succeed. You can refer
beneath article for more information.
RD Gateway deployment in a perimeter network & Firewall rules
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rds/archive/2009/07/31/rd-gateway-deployment-in-a-perimeter-network-firewall-rules.aspx
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki
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