Managing user sessions in RDS on Server 2012 R2

I'm planning on deploying Server 2012 R2 Remote Desktop Services, and I'm finding I'm going to have to go to a training class! Unfortunately, I don't have the time to do that before deploying. I've figured out how to use policy editor to configure
what I used to accomplish in "Terminal Services Configuration". What tool do I use to manage Remote Apps, and what tool do I use to view session details? I know I can remote control user sessions from Task Manager, but that doesn't give visibility
to view session idle time, logon time, etc.

Is it on a Domain or Workgroup, if it is on a Domain (and you had previous experience with RDS 2008/R2) then you can simply read this guide
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/20684.management-how-to-changes-for-rds-in-windows-server-2012-and-2012r2.aspx
If it is on a workgroup you have to do a bit more to get it right. The only problem is if you are on a workgroup you can not have RemoteApps
Hope this helps!

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Office on RDS on Server 2012 licensing

I have a client using RDS on Server 2012 to run proprietary software. They would like to begin allowing their sales force to connect to the server via iPads and run Office, which isn't yet installed on the server.
Thus far I've come to the understanding that what that will take is a volume license for Office installed on the server and an RDS license (they already have several) for every concurrent connection.
My questions are -
1) Am I right about installing the Office volume license on the server?
2) Do they need Office installed on the client device as well? (I wouldn't think so, but some things I'm reading say otherwise)
3) One of the reasons they want to switch to iPads (or Android devices or whatever) is to limit cost if their salesperson looses or breaks their device. So my question is, does the volume license count concurrent connections like the RDS license does or
is it somehow "tied" to the remote devices? For example -- If a salesperson does lose their device is it possible just to get another one and have them start using it without any additional licenses or is the license that was "tied" to
the old device just gone forever and we have to purchase another one to connect the new device? If the salesperson wants to RDS into the server from their home computer while their iPad is off and connect to their RD session would that require another license?
Or, if one of the people who connects to RDS who doesn't need to use Office accidentally opens "Word," will that license be then "tied" to their computer and wasted?
Thank you for any help,
Jeff Minch

Hi Pure,
Your friend of a friend is incorrect.
The statement you've made about licences being locked applies to the RDS CAL (specifically a per computer CAL), not Office. As I said before, an Office licence has nothing whatsoever to do with an RDS CAL.
There are three kinds of "common" Offices licences:
Retail.
MAK.
KMS.
Unless you're buying your copies of Office from a retail shop (or online shop) - and it doesn't sound like you are, then you can forget about retail keys.
MAK keys are accessed by one of the volume licencing agreement programs and are typically used by smaller businesses that don't have enough computers to be able to access the KMS approach to licencing or for clients that will not be able to talk to
a KMS server at least every 180 days.
MAK keys involve a once-off activation and then they never renew the activation again. This makes them ideal for things like non-Internet kiosks, field laptops and the like. The once-off activation can happen with the client being Internet-connected for
this once off activation or via an offline activation using the telephone or VAMT (Volume Activation Management Tool).
KMS keys come in two flavours:
KMS host activation key, which is used to create a KMS "server".
KMS client key, which is a standard key that can be applied to as many volume licencing copies of Windows/Office ad you like, and which "instructs" the client to activate against the KMS server above.
There are a number requirements to be met before you can successfully deploy a KMS host, but it's not worth going into depth here about it as the only point to be made is that yet again, it has nothing to do with RDS licencing. The closest it would get to
being relevant is if the copies of Office installed on the RDS Session Hosts were activated via a KMS host.
I think you need to have a read-up on RDS licencing and the expiration process:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732416.aspx
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/3efeee70-9d23-4477-8b94-23e2643dd5bf/controlling-rds-user-cal-expiry?forum=winserverTS
Going back to your iPad clients, you need to determine whether you're using per device or per user licencing before you can figure out a way forward as far as RDS licencing goes, but again, this has nothing to do with Office licences being retained
on the device, as that scenario is not possible as Office activation doesn't work like that.
Perhaps the easiest way to depict the difference for you is to understand that RDS licencing functions outside of the RDS session while Office licencing functions within it, which is why a device being removed/lost has nothing to do with Office at all.
So long as you remember that you need to buy as many Office licences as there are clients connecting to the RDS environment, you can activate Office any way you like.
Cheers,
Lain

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Hello.
I have a Windows 2012 server running RDS. Before RDS was installed a remote desktop session used all available monitors when 'use all my monitors for the remote session' was checked in the RDP client settings.
After I installed RDS the default session collection had a limit of 16 monitors that I was unable to edit. When I connected to the default session collection I could only get the remote session to display on 1 monitor.
I deleted that session collection, created a new one, and was able to edit the 'maximum number of redirected monitors' setting to the desired value of 2 but the remote session still only displays on 1 monitor.
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Hi,
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Manage User Sessions

I know how to manage user sessions from Visual Administrator using Security Provider Service - Login Sessions. How can I do the same using SAP Netweaver Administrator?

HI,
What do you mean? usualy you use users ....... by going to T-CODE su01..
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Is there an application to monitor users who log into Windows Server 2012 R2?

I'm looking at Family Safety Feature in Windows 8 and like what they can do. I have a request to monitor, track users who log into Windows Server 2012 R2 to see how many users login, how long each login is for each user so a monthly report can be generated.
1. I just wonder if Windows Essential 2012 can be used for this purpose or not. If it can, is Windows Essential 2012 a feature can be added or installed on Windows Server 2012 R2?
2. If Window Essential 2012 cannot be used for this purpose, is there any feature in Windows Server 2012 R2 that can be used for this purpose?
3. Is there any other suggestions?
Thank you for your help.
Thanks and Regards,
Hien Phan

Hi Hien,
Anything updates?
It seems that there is no feature can do that. I agree with Tim that you can check the event logs. In general, the event 4624 would be created when a user was logged on, and the event 4634 would be created when a user account was logged
off.
More information:
Tracking User Logon Activity Using Logon Events
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Susie
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Resizing User Profile Disks in Existing Server 2012 R2 RDS Deployment Question

Once the initial maximum size is set and the VHDXs have been created in a Server 2012 R2 RDS deployment, will attempting to increase Collection's maximum UPD size by say.. issuing a Powershell command of:
Set-RDSessionCollectionConfiguration -CollectionName MySpiffyNewCollection -MaxUserProfileDiskSizeGB 10
over-write the existing VHDXs instead of simply increasing their size? (max size is currently 5GB)
I'm not at a point where I can test this in a lab condition to find out, and I have not found this question asked (or at least not definitively answered) in this forum yet.
-G

Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
We can resize the UPD file with below command:
Resize-VHD –Path c:\BaseVHDX.vhdx –SizeBytes 1TB
After running this mount the .vhdx file and open disk manager and there will be unallocated disk, and then you can click extend disk/volume and its done.
You can refer following article for more information.
Resize User Profile Disks
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Requirement to enable more than two concurrent RDP sessions on multiple Windows Server 2012

I have an existing Remote desktop licensing server, which has users CALs for server 2008. Now I have some windows server 2012 R2, where more than 2 concurrent RDP connections are required.
What I understand that I will need to install RDS server roes on all my Widows Server 2012 and I will need to have at least one RD licensing server to install RDS CALS, that’s all.
If it is correct, the questions is : Can I use my existing license server to add my newly purchased version 2012 RDS user CALs or I will need a new licensing server?
If it is not correct, then what else I need
I appreciate your detail step by step
Thanks

Thanks the for steps, provided,
So in short,
I will need a Windows 2012 Server to install RSD 2012 licencing server to setup my newly purchased X number of RDS 2012 user CALs.
As I just want more than 2 concurrent RDP connection to happen on some Windows 2012 server, I will require to select “Role-Based or feature-based installation and ONLY will enable Remote Desktop Licensing Role and Demote Desktop Session
Host.
I will need to add RD Licencing and add the server 2012 servers; I want more than 2 concurrent connections to happen.
I will need to enable RD Licensing mode as per user
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I am also in dark, how my user will connect those servers, with RDP connection or with RD Web Access.
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How to manage User Session in Adf ?

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User Rights Delegation via Powershell (Server 2012)

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In the Exam Ref 70-414 book the author refers the the following powershell cmdlets in server 2012 to assign /delegate user rights by using the constant names.
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Any help will be appreciated.

Here this will tide you over:
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SeIncreaseWorkingSetPrivilege Increase a process working set Disabled
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Number of user sessions in the Application Server for a config entry

Hi All
I am using 10g AS, with 9i DB.
My requirement is that -
i need to find the total number of users of the application in any moment, and to
display that information to the users. say, config=abc, super users need to find all
those who are using the link from the application itself.
I can see that information from the 10 g Enterprise Manager -> Forms -> User Sessions.
But is there any means of transfering that information to forms.
Can this be done by using PJC's ?
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RDS on server 2012 and outlook as a published app not working.

You need a VL copy for office, OEM will not work,
You can also install O365 on the Server but that is a little more complicated, then you can have every one activate it with their E3 license.
We have both systems in production for multiple customers and it works without issues.

We are creating a new environment to use RDS, exchange 2010, office 2010 or 2013. When publishing an app of outlook 2010 or 2013 they do not work in RDS. Just keeps spinning and never launches. it will not launch from the server as well at time but at times it will if i am on the server directly via RDP.
This is a hyper-v environment as well running on server 2012 host not sure if that makes any difference with this issue though.
Any ideas here?
Thanks in advance
T.
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Managing user sessions using a database

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about implementing such a move in coldfusion?
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storing?

Logoff Script for RDS on Server 2012 R2

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I know it can be done with "end a disconnected session" timeout value but I can't change that value for other external reasons.
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Server manager not working at all. Server 2012 R2 Essentials

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Online - Cannot get role and feature data
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/getfile/560989
-----Update 03-11-2014----
PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-WindowsFeature
Get-WindowsFeature : Server execution failed
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-WindowsFeature
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : DeviceError: (Microsoft.Manag...rDetailsHandle):CimException) [Get-
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+ FullyQualifiedErrorId :
UnSupportedTargetDevice,Microsoft.Windows.ServerManager.Commands.GetWindowsFeatureCommand
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And Windows update can not check currely installed update's
Checked the .net frame work seems to be installed correctly
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Winrm quickconfig
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealthDism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealthdism /online /enable-feature /featurename:netfx3 /all /source:d:\sources\sxs
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___________Update 04-11-2014_____________
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Directory Server Diagnosis
Performing initial setup:
Trying to find home server...
Home Server = <SERVER>
* Identified AD Forest.
Done gathering initial info.
Doing initial required tests
Testing server: Roegoorn\<SERVER>
Starting test: Connectivity
......................... <SERVER> passed test Connectivity
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Testing server: Roegoorn\<SERVER>
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......................... <SERVER> passed test Advertising
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......................... <SERVER> passed test NetLogons
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A warning event occurred. EventID: 0x000727AA
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......................... <SERVER> failed test SystemLog
Starting test: VerifyReferences
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Running partition tests on : ForestDnsZones
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......................... ForestDnsZones passed test CrossRefValidation
Running partition tests on : DomainDnsZones
Starting test: CheckSDRefDom
......................... DomainDnsZones passed test CheckSDRefDom
Starting test: CrossRefValidation
......................... DomainDnsZones passed test CrossRefValidation
Running partition tests on : Schema
Starting test: CheckSDRefDom
......................... Schema passed test CheckSDRefDom
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......................... Schema passed test CrossRefValidation
Running partition tests on : Configuration
Starting test: CheckSDRefDom
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......................... Configuration passed test CrossRefValidation
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User Profile Disks with Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 VDI

Hello experts!
We are building a new server setup for the office and are unable to figure out why UPD will not work. We have VDI setup and a user for instance
connecting through the RDWeb workplace will dynamically get one of the available Windows 8 Machines delivered through Hyper-V and can successfully login on this machine via Active Directory. So far so good...
However, when we activate the User Profile Disks "UPD" feature the login takes forever and the VHDX will not mount on c:\users\...
as expected within the virtual Windows 8 machine.
The UPD config is quite simple, with just the path "\\vmhost\upd\" set. This share has (now during test) full access for everyone,
both on share level and on security level, but still the VHDX will not mount.
The UVHD-template.vhdx file gets created just fine when UPD is activated, and during login through RDWeb a TEMP-UVHD-S-1-5-21-1477358240-4159876597-995667825-500.vhdx
gets created, but there it stops... The login process takes a couple of minutes by the "Windows förbereds" (roughly translated to English "Preparing Windows"), and then the user gets logged in with a temporary profile.
- The event log says (translated using Google translate):
Failed to obtain a user profile disk for the user account with SID S-1-5-21-1477358240-4159876597-995667825-500.
Make sure the location of the user profile desk can be reached, the server's computer account has read and write permissions to the site and that there is a template file for user profile disks at the site.
Name of the virtual desk"font-size:14px;font-family:'Droid Serif', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;color:#222222;line-height:23px;"
/>HRESULT: 0x8007007B.0
Please help, it should not be that hard to achieve this.

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