Black Screen on a RDP Session on a Windows 8 VM (with a RemoteFX 3D Card) running on Windows Server 2012 HyperV

Hi,
I am trying to test a Windows 8 VM (RTM) with a RemoteFX 3D adapter (I used Powershell command to add the RemoteFX adapter to the VM) and when I connect the machine with the RDP Client (Windows Server 2012 RTM),
I just get a black screen.
Off course, I can not connect using VM Connect (because RemoteFX is enable in the VM).
I tested same configuration but this time with a Windows 7 VM and this time it's OK, RemoteFX working fine.
Any Idea will be apreciated :-)
Stanislas Quastana, Microsoft France http://blogs.technet.com/stanislas

I may have a solution for this which I am about to test.
My environment is 2012R2, Win8.1 VDI Machines on a Dell R720 with Nvidia GRID K2.
I've been trying to rollout VDI all week with everything working except RemoteFX.
On logon the screen is just black but if you press enter it continues to log on, it appears that the logon message text may be causing the issue so I have created a GPO for my template machines and client machines which disables require CTRL+ALT+DEL
and also deletes from the registry the logon message and logon text entries that are displayed on all machines, I figure the users will see this when logging onto their ThinPC machine before connecting to VDI so it's not needed twice.
CONFIRMED working!!

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Hi,
you might find the dedicated TS/RDS forum is better suited to your question:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/home?forum=winserverTS
Some related information which may be helpful:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/cbffb2d4-ff9d-49ee-a9ce-a60db2262422/managing-server-2012-rds-in-a-workgroup?forum=winserverTS
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2833839/en-au
http://ryanmangansitblog.com/2013/10/30/deploying-a-rdsh-server-in-a-workgroup-rds-2012-r2/
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Unable to Change Screen Resolution in Remote Session - Windows Server 2012 R2

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Hi,
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Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
You can check the GPO setting “pin Apps to Start when installed” which will pin the new program to start and other setting “Start Screen Layout” which will lets you specify the Start screen layout for users and prevents them from changing
its configuration. You can find this setting under below mention path.
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In addition please check beneath article.
Customize the Start Screen
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134269.aspx
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
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Serial Port communication very slow in RDP on windows server 2012

Hellò, we have installed a new server 2012 and connected some thinclients via RDP, since that moment all peripherals connected to the imported com ports of the thinclients are running very slow, for example the cash register issue any receipt only after
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OS windows Server 2012. Also note this is a bi-directional communication because the cash register use a bi-directional communication for printing each one of the voice on the receipt, this problem wll not affect other printers unidirectional where the
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Hi,
Thanks for your posting in Windows Server Forum.
When the slow performance issue occurs on server 2012, check the Windows Logs – Application category of the Event Viewer (eventvwr.msc) on both the client and server sides. If there is any logs recorded, please let us know them. Please also check the
driver is properly installed on server and check the compability guide with the cash register machine, whether it support server 2012 with remote session. If there is particular requirement then you need to solve them first.
In addition, would like you to try connecting with RDP 8.1 and check whether it faces same issue.
Remote Desktop Protocol 8.1 Update for Windows 7 SP1 released to web
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Thanks,
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Single server solution for RDS / TS / RDP using Windows Server 2012 R2

Planning on setting up a small single server and need this functionality:
* 3 local users runnnig Windows 7 Home Premium needs to access files on the server
* The same 3 users should also be able to connect from home (PC, Mac, iPhone) and run an application on the server. (Session-Based Remote Desktop).
We want to use Windows Server 2012, and found out that Essentials does not support RDP, so that leaves Foundation and Standard versions.
However, I also found out that in WS 2012 the RDP can not be on the same server as the Domain Controller, and we therefor needs to run 2 server instances on our hardware. I think this starts to look way to complicated for what we want to do, but found out
that WS 2012 R2 allows a single server to run RDP (See TechNet article 2833839).
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functionality on the server?
And, will WS 2012 Foundation R2 do this as well as WS 2012 Standard R2?
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Hi Ryan,
and thanks for the answer! I do not know how to do "multiple quote" in this forum so I do it this way:
"have you considered virtualisation, as you can run multiple virtual machines under one licence. I think this would be the cheapest and most efficient use of your money. Upgrading your clients to Windows 7 pro would allow you to have domain control
Single Sign On SSO. "
This is the "official" solution I think: Upgrade all clients to Win 7 Pro and run two instances of Win Server 2012 Standard on the server.
However, I was hoping to get away with something a bit more Quick & Dirty.....;-) We do not have big security issues and will have a good backup system, and I think for 3 users only, it will be more work trying to centralise administration like updating,
backups etc, than to just go to each machine and do what is needed.
We are good with computers/Windows but have no Server experience. A server guy will help us get started, but I dont want him around after that, so it must be a very simple solution.
Also, installing 2 instances of WS 2012 and upgrading all 3 clients to Win Pro, and then installing all software and settings on the clients into the new domain user accounts on these clients is quite a lot of work. So I was hoping to keep only existing local
users on the client machines and only have some kind of file share thing going on with the server disks that we need to access. So perhaps use a Workgroup instead of a domain, if that works with the RDS setup?
"Option 1
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So, if we set up RDS this way (so we can log in remote and run our application session-based on the server), can we keep the local clients running Windows Home Premium using our current local user logins (ie no domain user accounts created on the client machines,
as this is impossible in Home versions) and still access the server disks somehow, or is it impossible?
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"Option 2
2 virtual machines 1x DC and 1x RDS server.
You can configure your RDS solution as a domain joined platform and will still be able to access resources from the local device as you can map local drives to the session host. http://www.serverintellect.com/support/techfaq/drive-rdp/
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"Option 3
1x Server
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Rgds
Petter

Windows Server 2012 R2 RDP access too slow when user access

HI Team,
Recently installed Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard edition .
The above server also promoted as Domain controller.
I am trying to access the server VIA RDP from Windows 8 client machine access is toll slow and welcome screen shows for 2 to 3 minutes then only i can able to see my server desktop.
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We have two applications published on Rdweb.
1. MS
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We are using Windows Server 2012 Standard installed in VMWare / Virtual machine and to access this we use vSphere client and Remote Desktop Connection / service was already enabled and was working fine with User PCs / laptops remote desktop into the server
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resumed to stop, here I assume its where the licensing part comes in to re-enabled this.
I have been trying to follow these articles online: http://ryanmangansitblog.com/2013/03/27/deploying-remote-desktop-gateway-rds-2012/ and http://www.concurrency.com/blog/rds8-add-a-licensing-server-2/#Install the overview part that I cannot get into,
because I think we have to be is AD DS for this which we don't. Is there a way around this for non domain / just standalone set-up? Is it a must / requirement we need to be in a domain in order for Remote Desktop Connection to work?
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where I followed: http://www.concurrency.com/blog/rds8-add-a-licensing-server-2/#Install in Install Licences section and I have used the licence key of CAL - 10 mentioned above; it stated I have successfully completed the install licences wizard and displayed:
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I then tested the Remote desktop connection from my PC and the same error message was there and checked the RD Licensing Diagnoser and the same error messages was there. I haven't restart the services of Remote Gateway / the server itself; do I really
need to reboot server?
Any advice / guidance would be very much appreciated and this is a urgent matter.
Thank you for your time.

Hotfix Released here:
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Windows server 2012 Data Center with VDI configuration error message ( The remote session was disconnected because there are no remote desktop license servers available)

Dears,
I have two windows server 2012 Data Center and I configured (Virtual Desktop Interface)VDI on it's.
All my clients connected on both of servers by used Remote Desktop sessions ,5 months since.
Currently,when the clients is connected on the both of servers they received the following error:
"The remote session was disconnected because there are no remote desktop license servers available to provide license"
Kindly note, I installed windows Licenses Server Data Center on the both of servers.
Regards.

Hi,
Please let us know if you have purchased RDS CALs and install it in your RD licensing server.
Also, on RD Session host servers, please make sure that you have specified the license mode and point them to the RD licensing server.
Remote Desktop Services Client Access Licenses (RDS CALs)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753650.aspx
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
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Jeremy Wu
TechNet Community Support

Can't print a pdf file with adobe reader 10.1.12 on a Windows Server 2012 R2 RDS session

Situation : My users are connected with RDP on a Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Remote Desktop Service and when they log on, their share printers are installed.
When some users open a pdf file, they can't print it. When they try to print a file, nothing happen... No file sent to the printer...
I have seen a difference between the shortcut icon of adobe reader for users who have this problem and others.
No Problem :
Problem :
If someone can help me
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Hi Ajlan,
To fix my problem, i uninstalled adobe reader X with "Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat Cleaner Tool", rebooted the server, installed Adobe Reader XI and rebooted again.
For some users, this fix the problem but with some others i had to define Adobe Reader by default again.
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Using Windows Server 2012 per-User RDS CAL on Server 2008 R2 Session Host

I have a Remote Desktop Licensing Server setup on my domain controller running Windows Server 2012 R2. I have installed a
’Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Services per-User CAL’ there and activated the licensing server already.
Currently I use ONLY Windows Server 2008 R2 machines as RDS Session Hosts (in the future I plan to transition them to 2012 R2, hence the CAL I bought is
already in the newest version).
I have already configured my WS 2008 RDS Session Hosts: set
Per-User licensing mode and specified license server address. The connectivity between my Session Host(s) and my License Server seems to be ok as the
Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration window on the Session Host correctly lists the 2012 per-user
license (CAL installed on server) from the license server.
On the License Server I can also see event logs entries (in
Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-Licensing/Admin), indicating that the user has been issued a license.
The issue I am having is that the license being issued is
2008 Per User CAL license (Build-in OverUsed - temporary) and not the 2012 Per User CAL license which is the only license installed on the server. According to the RDS CAL interoperability matrix at
social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/14988.rds-and-ts-cal-interoperability-matrix.aspx, I was expecting the 2012 license to be backward-compatible with 2008 client (and that
in the absence of legacy licenses, the (only) 2012 license would be used for all clients connecting to the licensing server)
Before I bought my license, I found this document:
download.microsoft.com/download/3/D/4/3D42BDC2-6725-4B29-B75A-A5B04179958B/WindowsServerRDS_VLBrief.pdf
which says that - "newer version RDS CALs can be used with an older version of the server software" (In section FAQ, Q4), which means to me that
the 2012 license would work as-is for the 2008 Server and gives me flexibility when upgrading to the new server version.
How can I make this CAL work in my environment?
Note:
I have already explicitly disabled
Prevent license upgrade Group Policy setting which I assumed would fix the issue but nothing has changed.
Then I have enabled License server security group Group Polity setting
and added computers from my domain to RDS Endpoint Servers AD group. I have also created new AD group called
Terminal Server Computers and added the computer accounts there, but it changes
nothing. Reference - technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee791761.aspx , technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725704.aspx and blogs.msdn.com/b/rds/archive/2009/09/17/control-the-issuance-of-rds-cals.aspx.
I found one potential ‘workaround’ which involved manually downgrading my CAL license by calling
Microsoft Clearinghouse. I am very reluctant do to so because, as I upgrade parts of my infrastructure to Server 2012, I’d need to then ask Microsoft to manually upgrade a part of my license back as well.
Am I missing something? What should I do to get my 2012 CAL to be issued to 2008 R2 server

Hi, I have tried several other possibilities.
I change expire date for my temporary assigned license (2008 CAL overused). It can be done, by changing Active Directory user properties – msTSExpireDate. When I restart my Session Host server and logged again, my license was renewed
for next 60 days (event ID - 4145).
I also delete information about license for this user (clear msTSExpireDate and msTSLicenseVersion). And the license was successfully removed from License Manager. After another SH restart it gets the same – 2008 overused – license
(event ID 4143 - license server has successfully issued …)
I now, that changing info in AD attributes is a little trick, and this is not a real value - only a reference, but it was useful to delete or change expiration date of license. But it didn’t change type of license as I expected.
Reference -
http://discussions.citrix.com/topic/243320-windows-2008-licensing-questions/
To TP:
I have found your post with information:
If you have a Server 2012 RD Licensing server you may install your 2012 RDS CALs on it (no downgrade necessary) and then set your Server 2008 R2 RDSH to
use the 2012 RDL server. The 2012 RD Licensing server will automatically issue the CALs as 2008. -
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/6046ded1-96bf-4d79-89ce-38aac2a6694e/can-we-use-windows-server-2012-rds-cal-license-in-rds-2008-r2-server?forum=winserverTS
And it showing my situation in brief. I also found
similar problems, but the solutions don’t meet my expectations.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/dcfb1966-89a8-4b5d-bf5a-ff03ac0b7a66/rds-cal-licenses-not-recognized?forum=winserverTS
– “sudden all of the CALS were available”
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/f1228599-8452-4a3e-a263-061de14bfcfe/server-2012-rds-builtin-overused-cals-issue?forum=winserverTS
– “this should go away after a while”
Is there a way to determine this time you mentioned before? Or should I just wait patiently…

Windows Server 2012 The licensing mode for the Remote Desktop Session Host server is not configured

Hi
I have a standard Windows Server 2012 that is hosted in the cloud by a hosting provider -
This server has been up and running fir 6 months - recently we have been getting a warning
"The licensing mode for the Remote Desktop Session Host server is not configured" - The Remote Desktop Session Host server is within its grace period, but the RD Session Host server has not been configured with any license server.
Yet, we only use this with 2 connections as part of the standard licence agreement and this server is not used as a user's desktop only an ftp and web server- do therefore we do not need to purchase any cal licences (we have another server with the same
hosting company that does not have this issue and has been up for 18months)
Please can someone advise how I resolve this issue, the hosting company states that I must resolve it as they only host and resell the server licence
Thank-you
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Hi Richard,
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How to RDP access my Windows server 2012 system with Windows 7 system

In the VMWARE workstation, I have a " Windows server 2012" & " WIndows 7" OS deployed. I am not able to RDP the " Windows server 2012" from "Windows 7" system even though i have performed the below step.
1. Enabled the " Allow Remote Connections to this comptuter " in windows server 2012
2. Disabled the firewall in Windows server 2012.
Can someone advice me on the below.
1. How to RDP my windows server 2012 from my Windows 7 with " Firewall disabled" & "Firewall Enabled" conditions

Hi,
Just make sure that the firewall is disabled in all three profiles Domain/Private/Public.
Create a incoming UDP rule on firewall to allow port 3389 and give a try.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/b1ec4602-7120-4660-a1ba-e05289a479cf/windows-2012-r2-firewall-blocking-remote-desktop?forum=winserverTS
Regards,
Rafic
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