Remote Desktop Services: corrupt system database, how to remove and start again?

Hi. This is my first Windows Server 2012 R2 installation, and I have a made a small mess. I'd be very grateful for any assistance in sorting it out.
I had some problems which I eventually tracked down to an incorrectly installed SSL certificate, but during my diagnostics, I foolishly deleted a row from a system table, thinking that if it messed up, I could always reinsert the row. Forgetting of course
that I couldn't recreate the ID of the original record because it's an auto-ID field. So I realise I'm an idiot.
I logged in to SQL server using:
\\.\pipe\MICROSOFT##WID\tsql\query
and deleted a row from:
Databases/RDCms/Tables/rds.Target
and from:
Databases/RDCms/Tables/rds.Pool
Predictably enough, the database is no longer coherent and RDWeb is not working properly, and I need to remove RDS and reinstall it.
I thought that removing the RDS server role and adding it again would do it, but the erroneous data is still there.
How can I get rid of it and start from a clean slate?
Thank you in advance for any help.
Stan

Hi Stan,
Thank you for your posting in Windows Server Forum.
Can you let us know the specific error you are facing?
In addition, you can try to use below powershell command to remove the rds role.
Parameter Set: Default
Remove-RDServer [-Server] <String> [-Role] <String> [[-ConnectionBroker] <String> ] [-Force] [ <CommonParameters>]
Remove-RDServer
In addition, you can refer this thread
for reference. Also check "Disaster recovery options for the RD Connection Broker
2012 (HA)" article.
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki

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Hi,
The cause of unable to remote back to the server seems to be services hung, please try to reset session as the article below guides to see if it works:
Windows Server: Remote Desktop Error: The task you are trying to do can't be completed because Remote Desktop Services is currently busy
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/28636.windows-server-remote-desktop-error-the-task-you-are-trying-to-do-can-t-be-completed-because-remote-desktop-services-is-currently-busy.aspx
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the cable, and even then, if that Bi**H does not shut down properly, one bit goes awry in a VHD or VHDX file and you are screwed. Restore from lastnights backup and forget about todays work. Not to mention it will probably take a half day to try
to fix it, then recover it then tell the 30 users they lost a days worth of work.
HYPER-V is for test servers and has no place in a small (micro) business environment. 5-30 users.
Microsoft's solution, buy another server. Need Exchange? Buy another server or take the risky cheapskate route and spin up some VHD's. Might as well put a gun to your head and play russian roulette, at least you know you have a one in six
chance of failure. With MS, its a 100% failure for a dirty shutdown power loss, motherboard blows, memory goes corrupt in a few years, your conventional method of recovery is gone, and you have some upchucked VHD file to try to recover some of TODAYS
data from.
Screw server 2012 forever.
I will sell 2008 and SBS2011 Premium unitl it rots in hell like XP (of which there is NOTHING wrong with for the average, WORD, EXCEL, OUTLOOK and QUICKBOOKS that all SMB's use. Its MS $GREED$ Grab the world by the B**ls and squeeze with all
your might to squeeze every dime you can out of *SMB* because big business is going to run thier 2003 Exchange and 2008 servers into ground before they switch to this garbage.
YOU CANNOT INSTALL EXCHANGE 2013 on DC , OR on R-DERP server.
Go buy another server license and server or MOVE TO THE CLOUD and get fleeced every month.
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any weights because it is LEAD and will sink to the bottom by itself.
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Maybe for SMB, we start selling Linux NAS Servers, host the Exchange in the cloud and be hearded like cattle to the Microsoft slaughterhouse. One way or another, you are going to bleed.    A little each month to move to the cloud, or
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