Configure which IP Win2012 R2 RD Session Host listens on

I have Windows 2012 R2 RD Session Host servers that are multihomed. One of the NICs is connected to an isolated management network. The management IP is NOT in DNS at all. However the RD Connection broker attempts to redirect sessions to
the management IP address of the session hosts - which is not available to users. This results in the connection failing. I found event log entries that showed that the broker is sending session requests to the management IP's of the hosts.
If I disable the management NIC then everything works just fine.
My question is: How can I either configure the Session Hosts to only listen for RDP connections on a specific IP/NIC, OR how can I accomplish this in the Connection broker by specifying an IP for each session host server that it will be redirecting to?

Hi,
You can use WMI to set the redirection ip, however, I have not tested to see if Server 2012 R2 will honor what you set. I do not have the WMI command handy so it would be faster if you change the registry or use RD Session Host Configuration from
Server 2008 R2. As a test please make the following change to one of the RDSH server's registry:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\ClusterSettings
SessionDirectoryRedirectionIps REG_MULTI_SZ 192.168.1.100
Replace the ip address above with the ip address that should be used for redirection for that RDSH server. After making the registry change please restart the server and then test to see if only the correct ip address is used.
As an alternative to the above you may use RD Session Host Configuration (tsconfig.msc) from a Server 2008 R2 box and connect over to the Server 2012 R2 RDSH. Before connecting the 2012 R2 RDSH should already be a member of a collection. Once
connected, double-click on Member of farm in RD Connection Broker and then select the ip address at the bottom. Since tsconfig is using WMI to make the change there is no need to restart the RDSH in order for the change to take effect.
If the test is successful then you would make a similar change to all of the RDSH servers.
Thanks.
-TP

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I have a server 2012 which is running Remote Desktop Session Host role without the Connection Broker like described here:
http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2833839
Now the client would like the Network Level Authentication (NLA) disabled. And since server 2012 does not have the Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration tool, I have to use the server manager console.
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Hi,
Have you configure the certificate for your server?
Add the user under Remote Desktop user local group, configure FQDN name of server. Please see that if we are using RDS server in workgroup then most of the tools provided to make managing/configuring RDSH servers easier in 2012 will not work in a workgroup
configuration including some PowerShell command. You can check the below article for information.
Deploying a RDSH Server in a Workgroup – RDS 2012 R2
Hope it helps!
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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
Richard Steele

Hi Richard,
You need to uninstall Remote desktop session host feature. After removing it, you will default two connections which does not need to purchase RD CALs'.
Thanks,
Umesh.S.K

The remote desktop session host configuration & Remote session shadowing options missing in Windows server 2012.

Hi All,
I am using a Windows server 2012 Standard. When i leave my session idle for more than 20 min it disconnects and post more 20 minutes my session is logged off.
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User
End session when time limits are reached
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End session when time limits are reached
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Set time limit for disconnected sessions
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Set time limit for disconnected sessions
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Set time limit for active but idle Remote Desktop Services sessions
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The grace period for the Remote Desktop Session Host server has expired

<p>I'm running Windows Server 2012, we only have 1 server and it's a DC. I'm trying to RD to the server from my Windows 7 laptop. It was working fine on Friday but when I came in on Monday I got message saying that 'The remote session was disconnnected
because there are no Remote Desktop License Servers available to provide a license'
So after a bit of digging I found out my 'grace period' had expired, so ordered a new license which I got today, installed this all ok but still i cannot connect via RD I get the same message....went into the RD License Diagnoser and it said the problem
was as follows
'The grace period for the Remote Desktop Session Host server has expired, but the RD Session Host server has not been configured with any license servers. Connections to the RD Session Host server will be denied unless a license server is configured for
the RD Session Host server.'
Suggested Resolution as follows
Configure a license server for the Remote Desktop Session Host server. If you have an existing license server, specify that license server for the RD Session Host Server. Otherwise, install RD Licensing on a computer on your network and Configure RD Session
Host Server to use it.'
I cannot figure out how to do this as I cannot find the RD Session Host Server tool.
Can any of you lovely people help me please

Hello,
Best option would be to assign the license server by using AD GPO. Youl will need to configure the following:
Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Remote Desktop Services\Remote Desktop Session Host\Licensing
and define the settings for:
Use the specified Remote Desktop License Server
Set the Remote Desktop Licensing mode
Then assign the policy tho your server.
regards Robert Maijen

Windows 2012 RDS - Session Host servers High Availability

Hello Windows/Terminal server Champs,
I am new middle of implementing RDS environment for one of my customer, Hope you could help me out.
My customer has asked for HA for RDS session host where applications are published, and i have prepared below plan for server point of view.
2 Session Host server, 1 webaccess, 1 License/connection
Broker & 1 Gateway (DMZ).
In first Phase, we are planning to target internal user
who connect to Session host HA where these 2 servers will have application installed and internal user will use RDP to access these application.
In second Phase we will be dealing with external Party who connect from external network where we are planning to integrate with NetIQ => gateway
=> Webaccess/Session host
I have successfully installed and configured 2 Session
Host, 1 license/Broker. 1 webAccess & 1 Gateway. But my main concern to have session Host High Available as it is hosting the application and most of the internal user going to use it. to configure it i am following http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753891.aspx
However most of the Architecture is change in RDS 2012. can you please help me out to setup the Session Host HA.
Note: we can have only 1 Connection broker /Licensing server , 1 webacess server & 1 Gateway server, we cannot increase more server due to cost
factor.
thanks in advance.

Yes, absolutely no problem in just using one connection broker in your environment as long as your customer understands the SPOF.
the session hosts however aren't really what you would class HA - but to set them up so youhave reduancy you would use either Windows NLB, an external NLB device or windows dns round robin. My preferred option when using the connection broker is DNS round
robin - where you give each server in the farm the same farm name dns entry - the connection broker then decides which server to allocate the session too.
You must ensure your session host servers are identical in terms of software though - same software installed in the same paths on all the session host servers.
if you use the 2012 deployment wizard through server manager roles the majority of the config is done for you.
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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…

Certificate Mismatch RDS Session Host

I've been banging my head against this for the last few days. I have a server 2012 remote desktop setup as follows:
1 Gateway Server
1 RD Web Access Serve
1 Session Broker, which is also a session host
1 Additional Session host
I'm using remote app to publish applications rather than desktops. I've got a wildcard certificate for the external domain, which works fine for the gateway and web access server, the problem comes with the session hosts, which are giving me a certificate mismatch
error because connections are made to the internal name (which is a .local address) which obviously does not match the external certificate.
I have a DNS zone for the external name setup on this domain, so that machines can be resolved by internal or external names.
I've made some progress by following the steps here - http://serverfault.com/questions/524092/rds-rdweb-and-remoteapp-how-to-use-public-certificate-for-launching-apps-on-s, and things now work fine if I only have the session host that is also the broker
enabled. Once I add the second session host, any requests that go to that get the certificate error. Connections to the first session host still work fine.
Does anyone know a way to have requests be made to the external name of the session host?

Hi,
1. After making the DNS change, did you flush the DNS cache on the RD Gateway server? Or even better restart the whole server?
2. Do you have DNS round robin for any of the other servers in your deployment? You should
not. Additionally, do you have any NLB or other hardware/software load balancing solution in place?
3. To make sure I have the facts correct, please let me know if the following items are correct:
a. You are launching a RemoteApp from within RD Web Access using IE running on a Windows 8 PC
b. When you launch a RemoteApp, the prompt has the following on it (for Calculator in this example):
Publisher: *.domain.com
Type: RemoteApp program
Path: calc
Name: Calculator
Remote computer: rdbroker.domain.com
Gateway server: gateway.domain.com
c. After clicking Connect it goes through several status messages and then you get a Certificate error saying essentially:
Name mismatch
     Requested remote computer:
     rd02.domain.local
     Name in the certificate from the remote computer:
     *.domain.com
Certificate errors
The following errors were encountered while validating the remote
computer's certificate:
     The server name on the certificate is incorrect.
d. In Deployment Properties, RD Gateway tab, Bypass RD Gateway server for local addresses is
unchecked.
4. Do you have multiple configured network cards in each server, or just a single NIC that has an ip address?
5. Have you modified the default firewall configuration of your servers? In other words, can I assume they are on the same subnet and are able to communicate with each other in the default domain configuration, or have changes been made and/or is
there a third-party firewall software or device in place that could be affecting things? I ask because normally the broker will authenticate the destination server using Kerberos and if something interferes with this you can get unexpected errors.
I believe you are close to solving this now.
Thanks.
-TP

Server 2012R2- RDS Farm Certificate Miss-Match on Session Hosts

Hi Guys,
I've another RDS2012R2 issue. Internal and external domains do not match. External: domain.com.au; Internal: domain.com.net.
I'm getting certificate miss-match errors when connecting to the Farm/RemoteApps.
I have performed the follow fixes:
Change published FQDN for Server 2012 or 2012 R2 RDS Deployment (http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Change-published-FQDN-for-2a029b80). This resolved the original issue where I was getting a certificate miss-match error externally
for the FQDN of the server.
Updated the RDP-Tcp certificate used on the Session Host Servers. This was to resolve an issue where using mstsc to RDP to the farm externally(via gateway) would give a Certificate is not trusted error on the RDSH side.
Now whenever RDWeb is used to launch a RemoteApp or the farm, I get a certificate miss match error as the RDSH server is called RDS1-TCC.domain.com.net and the certificate is for remote.domain.com.au.
I rolled back the last change so that RemoteApps and the Farm would work successfully internally without certificate issues. How do I go about resolving the certificate errors?
For extra background details see my orignal thread, It was marked as answered when only 1 out of 2 issues was resolved. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/b664ddaf-6c11-49e2-8a69-0df3b8ef13a1/server-2012r2-rds-farm-with-xp-and-windows-vista-clients?forum=winserverTS
Cheers,
Ben

Hi Ben,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
In your case, I can suggest you to check that the certificate must match the FQDN of the server. If you are creating SSL certificate then it must be signed by trusted authority and also the certificate must be stored under “local computer/personal store“.
Also you can buy the certificate from 3rd party which is wild card certificate and only 1 certificate can be used for your network. Please check below links for more information regarding certificate issue.
1. Certificate Requirements for Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2012 Remote Desktop Services
2. Configuring RDS 2012 Certificates and SSO
3. Windows 2012 RDS Certificate mismatch
Hope it helps!
Thanks,
Dharmesh

[Forum FAQ] Troubleshoot the error "The Remote Desktop Session Host server is in Per User licensing mode and No Redirector Mode"

Symptom
RD License server is a key component of RDS. It licenses users to access RDS servers.
After purchase the required RDS CALs, we need to activate the RDS License server and install the purchased RDS CALs. However, during the installation or after installation, we may face errors
about RDS License.
In most cases, the following error may occur.
Error:
The Remote Desktop Session Host server is in Per User licensing mode and No Redirector Mode, but license server "Server name" does not have any installed licenses with the following
attributes:
Product version: Windows Server 2012
Licensing mode: Per User
License type: RDS CALs
Troubleshooting
1. Check whether the RD License Configuration is configured properly and there are no Warnings in the Event.
2. The License Server should be part of 'RD Server License' group in Active Directory Domain Services.
3. Check if the Licensing Mode is correct.
- To change the Licensing Mode we can use RD Licensing diagnose, PowerShell cmdlet and Group Policy.
Via PowerShell cmdlet:
To change the licensing mode on RDSH/RDVH:
$obj = get-wmiobject -namespace "Root/CIMV2/TerminalServices" Win32_TerminalServiceSetting
$obj.ChangeMode(value)
# Value can be 2 - per Device, 4 - Per user
Via Group Policy
Path: Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Remote Desktop Services -> Remote Desktop Session Host -> Licensing
Use the specified RD license servers = FQDN of server name
Set the Remote Desktop licensing mode =
Per User
However, if issue persists, please provide detailed information and post the question in the
Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services) forum.
Please click to vote if the post helps you. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Hi Richard,
You need to uninstall Remote desktop session host feature. After removing it, you will default two connections which does not need to purchase RD CALs'.
Thanks,
Umesh.S.K

Windows 2012 Remote desktop session host server not detecting RD licensing server

Hi,
We have a customer server which is Windows 2012. We installed RDS session host server role and configured it to use RD licensing server as per the
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2833839?wa=wsignin1.0
After configuring, when I open RD license diagonser tool, it says, RD license server is not available. Also shows, credential not available. When I enter the credential by clicking, provide credentials, it does not get applied. I see no event logs related
to RD service. However, I see the below event log which points to RD licensing server.
DCOM was unable to communicate with the computer <RD license server> using any of the configured protocols; requested by PID 273c (C:\Windows\system32\mmc.exe).
Please help in fixing the issue.
Thanks,
Umesh

Hi Umesh,
Thanks for your comment.
During your configuration, have you specified RD License server for RDSH to use?
You can also specify a license server for the RD Session Host server to use by applying the Group Policy under below path.
Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Remote Desktop Services\Remote Desktop Session Host\Licensing
Use the specified Remote Desktop license servers – Provide the FQDN of the license servers to use
Also this setting can be specified by below method.
To configure the license server on RDSH/RDVH:
$obj = gwmi -namespace "Root/CIMV2/TerminalServices" Win32_TerminalServiceSetting
$obj.SetSpecifiedLicenseServerList("License.contoso.com")
Note “License” is the name of the License Server in the environment
To verify the license server configuration on RDSH/RDVH:
$obj = gwmi -namespace "Root/CIMV2/TerminalServices" Win32_TerminalServiceSetting
$obj.GetSpecifiedLicenseServerList()
More information.
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
In addition you can refer this article for reference.
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki
TechNet Community Support

Onscreen Keyboard appears when shadowing session on 2012R2 Remote Desktop Session Host

As the title suggests, whenever I shadow a session on our 2012R2 RDSH server, the onscreen keyboard appears. The taskbar also unlocks.
Both of these behaviours mean that the user can tell when their session is being shadowed, which I don't always want to be the case - sometimes I want to be able to monitor the session without their knowledge.
Anyone know how I can stop this from happening?

Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
Yeah, we can use the following command where we can take user shadow session without giving him any notification, and no need to approve by the user.
mstsc.exe /shadow:ID /v:ServerName /control /noConsentPrompt
But for this, we need to set the following group policy:
[Computer Configuration | User Configuration]
\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Remote Desktop Services\Remote Desktop Session Host\Connections
Set rules for remote control of Remote Desktop Services user sessions: Enable
Select the option: Full Control without User’s permission
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki
TechNet Community Support

Renaming computers in Win2012R2 Session Host Farm

We have Windows 2012 R2 RDS Session Host farm setup with the following numbers of servers
2 x RDWA in Win NLB
1 x RDLic Server
4 x RDSH Servers configured in two collections with each collection having 2 RDSH servers
1 x RDCB server
1 x File share cluster for UPD storage
All the above mentioned RDS servers are VM's on a HyperV 2012R2 3 Node Cluster.
We wish to achieve the following
Rename ALL the above mentioned RDS computers retaining the AD Domain name. e.g. server1.domain.com will become host1.domain.com
Is there a set procedure to rename computers those are part of RDS session host farm?

Hi,
There is no rename functionality for servers in a RDS deployment. What this means in general is that you need to remove the servers from the deployment, rename them, then add them back to the deployment.
The biggest "catch" is probably the RD Connection Broker. You cannot rename it since it is the heart of the RDS deployment which means you essentially need to wipe out your deployment (remove RDS Role Services from the broker), rename the server, then
install the deployment again.
I have not tested it but I think it would be possible to remove/rename/re-add a RDCB server if you had an HA deployment with at least one other RDCB server that you could leave in service while renaming the other broker.
It should not take too long to redo the deployment from scratch since you only have 2 collections, unless you have lots of published RemoteApps. Usually the longest part is installing all of the applications on the RDSH servers and configuring
custom settings, security, etc., which most likely you will not need to do. Some applications may have a problem if the server they are on gets renamed but that is specific to certain applications.
I would recommend you test the various steps of your rename so that you know what to expect.
So in general the steps would be:
Write down any customizations/settings/etc. for the deployment and the collections
Unpublish all RemoteApps from the collections
Remove all RDS servers from the RDS deployment except the broker (the various Role Services will remain installed on each server)
Delete all collections
Uninstall RD Connection Broker Role Service from the broker
Rename the broker server
Rename the other RDS servers
Install a fresh RDS deployment on the broker, verify there are no remnants of old deployment
Add the other RDS servers to deployment, create collections, configure, publish RemoteApps, etc.
Test everything, verify there are no "phantom" RemoteApps showing in RDWeb, etc.
I'm probably forgetting some details but the above should give you enough to figure it out.
-TP

Setup email profile at Remote Desktop Session Host Server

Hi All,
We have setup a RemoteApp environment hosted in Server 2012 R2. We are trying to create outlook profile for remote users during logon. Our approach is to create customised outlook profile (.prf), and assign it via logon script. However,
as the logon scripts are park under AD server (where Outlook is installed under Remote Desktop Session Host server), the script could not find the Outlook.exe, which is obvious as the Outlook wasn't installed on the same server.
Can someone advise what we should do to create the outlook profile when users remote logon? You are also welcome to suggest if you find other better approach. Thank you.
Best regards,
Lih Ping

Hi Lih,
Thank you for your post in Windows Server Forum.
I would recommend just publishing Outlook as a RemoteApp to the RDS Session Host/RemoteApp Server. Once the User configures there email in Outlook, this should register in the User's profile. This should allow the User to send emails through this connector.
(Quoted from this thread).
In addition please check below article.
Creating Outlook Profiles for RemoteApps
Apart from that suggest you to upgrade the version of RDP client to RDP 8.1 for better feature and functionality.
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki

Office 2013 Initiates Restart Remote Desktop Session Host

We have a Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Session Host that gracefully restarted on it's own today, logging off all of the users. When it came back online I found the following event log:
The process msiexec.exe has initiated the restart of computer ESDTS01 on behalf of user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM for the following reason: No title for this reason could be found
Reason Code: 0x80030002
Shutdown Type: restart
Comment: The Windows Installer initiated a system restart to complete or continue the configuration of 'Microsoft Office Standard 2013'.
I discovered that a new user had opened Outlook, and msiexec went through a configuration and prompted to restart the computer. The user had clicked Yes, which prompted the server to restart.
I can't seem to replicate the issue with a new user profile, and it seems to only have happened randomly with two users. What can I do to stop this?

Hi,
To my knowledge, this is not an Office specific issue, any updates that require a reboot might cause the issue. You might either want to disable the automatic Updates or disable the ability of non-admins to restart the system with a Group Policy.
However, this is out of scope of this forum, I'd suggest you to seek assistance in the forum of
Windows Server. Thanks for your understanding.
Below links might be helpful, you might want to have a look:
http://serverfault.com/questions/306133/how-can-i-prevent-terminal-server-users-from-restarting-the-server-after-an-auto
http://superuser.com/questions/190448/disable-restart-after-update-prompt-for-server-2008-r2
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the accuracy of this information.)
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Ethan Hua CHN
TechNet Community Support
It's recommended to download and install
Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office
programs.

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