RDS 2008 R2

I am using RDS. I am my farm name is rd-farm and whenever I try to log into the farm I get a unknown publisher message.
I have a certificate installed on my RDS server the names of all the servers are in the alternate names in the certificate. I jsut dont know what else to do? HELP!!!!

Hi,
Thanks for your post in Windows Server Forum.
Which version of RDP client you are using for your environment?
The Select Certificate dialog box is populated by certificates that are located in the local computer's certificates store or in your personal certificate store. The certificate that you want to use must be located in one of these stores.
In addition please go through beneath article for more information.
1. Introducing Web Single Sign-On for RemoteApp and Desktop Connections
2. TS Gateway Certificates Part III: Connection Time Issues related to TS Gateway
Certificates
Hope it helps!
Thanks,
Dharmesh

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Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
Which latest update you have installed on your server?
Does this issue occurs for all users?
In meantime, please try to reboot server once if possible and check whether your issue getting resolved. In addition you can try enhanced security configuration which might work for your case.
Internet Explorer: Enhanced Security Configuration
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd883248(v=ws.10).aspx
Hope it helps!
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Can we use Windows Server 2012 RDS CAL license in RDS 2008 R2 Server

Respected Sir,
We have RDS Server 2012 CAL license select plus but we want to use Windows Server 2008 R2 RDS so is it possible to use 2012 RDS license in RDS 2008 Server?
if yes how can put this.
Waiting for your reply.
thanks,
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Hi,
RDS 2012 CALs can license 2008 R2 and 2008 session hosts. However, RDS 2012 CALs only can be installed on the 2012 Licensing server.
RDS and TS CAL Interoperability Matrix
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/14988.rds-and-ts-cal-interoperability-matrix.aspx
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HI All,
I have RDS 2008 R2 SP1 Gateway and Session 3 session host with multiple application hosted.
We are getting Error with IE 10 and 11, Its works on compatibility mode however I need a solution or any upgraded path for RDS which supports latest browsers.
Can anyone provide suggestion to upgrade / any patch etc but not workaround / Tricks

Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
Please check that you have below security updates available on your server 2008 R2.
Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 11 in Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Edition (KB2929437)
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42471
In addition, here providing you article for information.
Internet Explorer 11 - FAQ for IT Pros
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn268945.aspx
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Thanks.
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extra CPU usage to a specific program developed internally making changes to this program is not an option.
My solution is to introduce a 2nd RDS server and load balance the users between them. My original thought was to setup a Session Broker (VM) to handle the initial connection and then that would load balance between the two physical servers.
Reading a bit more into it this is not looking like the way to go. My best route would be to setup NLB on the two Sessions Hosts as the front end which are then connected to the Session Broker (VM). This way after the initial connection the Sessions
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the two? And the same for the RD Gateway or can I do this on the Session Broker as well?
Thanks for any advice given.

Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
As you have commented that you are planning to load balance the RDSH server with RDCB, you can do the required steps for your environment. For this you need to check the following steps.
- Install the RD Connection Broker role service on the server that you want to use to track user sessions for a farm.
- Add the RD Session Host servers in the farm to the Session Broker Computers local group on the RD Connection Broker server.
- Configure the RD Session Host servers in the farm to join a farm in RD Connection Broker, and to participate in RD Connection Broker Load Balancing.
- Configure DNS round robin entries for RD Session Host servers in the farm.
More information:
Checklist: Create a Load-Balanced RD Session Host Server Farm by Using RD Connection Broker
For more information, you can go through following links.
1. Remote Desktop Server farms explained (Part 1)
2. Building a 2008 R2 RDS Load Balanced Farm with RD Connection Broker
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki

RDS 2012 Farm with RDS 2008 R2 - Switch between applications issue.

Hello All,
We have setup Windows Server 2012 R2 RDS farm with two hosts and joined Windows Server 2008 R2 to the farm. We joined server 2008 to the farm becouse we require Internet explorer 9 for compatibility testing. Internet explorer 11 in emulated modes does not
work for us. Now we seem to be facing a wierd issue.
When switchig between RemoteAPP application from server 2012 R2 and server 2008 R2, the applicatoins don't get displayed on screen. The computers try to desplay the applicaitons but it seems that Server 2008 R2 applications win and stay on top. The applications
are switched only with effort, 4-5 clicks on the applicaiton.
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Any suggestoins are welcome.
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Regards, Luka

Hi Luka,
When switchig between RemoteAPP application from server 2012 R2 and server 2008 R2
Do you mean that both Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have published remoteapp applications, and users are switching remoteapp applications from these two servers through RDWeb page?
I suggest you try to fully patch servers and clients to see if the issue persists.
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Hi,
How can i silo apps from a 2008 R2 RDS server into an RDS 2012 R2 farm?
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Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
Yeah, as suggested by Kasper we need to point the RDSH server 2008 R2 to new server farm 2012 R2 for specifying a License server for an RDSH server to use. A Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) server must be able to contact a Remote Desktop license
server to request Remote Desktop Services client access licenses (RDS CALs) for users or computing devices that are connecting to the RD Session Host server. Also the Remote Desktop licensing mode configured on an RD Session Host server must match the type
of RDS CALs available on the license server.
More information.
1. Specify a License Server for an RD Session Host Server to Use
2. Specify the Remote Desktop Licensing Mode on an RD Session Host Server
After performing the above steps, RDSH server 2008 R2 can communicate with Server 2012 R2 farm and then can get the old application running with RD Web server 2012 R2.
In addition, check below article for information.
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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”
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Windows Server 2012 RDS CALs on Server 2008 R2 License Server

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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
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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/20684.management-how-to-changes-for-rds-in-windows-server-2012-and-2012r2.aspx
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Create a second RDS host cluster, with existing brokers and redirectors?

We currently have a RDS 2008 R2 environment with;
1. Two clustered RDS broker machines with a highly available connection broker service.
2. Two RDS dedicated session redirectors
3. 7 RDS Host servers
We aren't using NLB.
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Tried to find this on the web, but didn't succeed to find an answer or a howto about this. The two different clusters, are these the
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Hi,
The broker supports multiple farms, but each dedicated redirector only supports a single farm. What this means is if you follow your same pattern you will need to add at least 1 dedicated redirector for your new RDSH farm.
Just so you are aware, Server 2012 and 2012 R2 support Active/Active RD Connection Brokers, and the brokers serve as redirectors for the collections (a collection is like a 2008 R2 farm). If you were using 2012 or 2012 R2 you would not need the dedicated
redirectors to achieve the same goal.
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RDS 2012 Architecture Documentation

I am looking for some guidance or documentation about designing a RDS 2012 environment both session hosted and virtual desktops.
Some actual questions I have around RDS 2012 are:
- Can RD Connection brokers shared over more than 1 datacenter with one collection of Session hosts? What connection is required between the datacenters?
- Can RD Gateway shared over more than 1 datacenter with one of more collections? What connection is required between the datacenters?
- Can we have 1 RD Gateway for more than 1 RDS Session host deployment in te same domain (not collections but complete seperated RDS environments)
- Can we have 1 RD Web Access for more than 1 RDS Session host deployment in the same domain (not collections but complete seperated RDS environments)
The only documentation I have found is the IPD of RDS 2008 R2, however there are a lot of changes in RDS 2012. Technet also doesn't have the RDS 2012 documentation online.
Thnx,

Hi have a look at the following site:
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Maybe you should install new Windows Server 2012 RDS CALs on the Windows Server 2008 R2 to achieve the target. Please refer to the following thread to see if it helps.
Can we use Windows Server 2012 RDS CAL license in RDS 2008 R2 Server
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Does anyone know where I can find the RDP folder found in C:\Windows\Web\RDWeb\Pages? I remember in RDS 2008, there is an RDP folder exists inside RDWeb\Pages which contains all the RDP files and icons. Its missing on RDS 2012.

Hi,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
Are you talking about RemoteApp RDP files which is stored under that part?
In server 2012\R2Now the RemoteApp RDP file and RemoteDesktop files are stored under following path.
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Hope it helps!
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