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Users can create a shortcut on their desktop to the Remote Desktop Connection Client on their local PC to make it easier to login to their remote server. The shortcut can include customization like enabling printer redirection, enabling clipboard (to copy and paste between the server and local PC), hard drive redirection and more. You […]
If you are using the RemoteApp RDWeb Access website feature (RDweb) in Windows Server 2008 R2 and have client/user PCs that have upgraded to Windows 10, read below. This does not apply if you are using full RDP desktop sessions to login and see a desktop which is what many/most people do – i.e. using RDP client […]
REMOTEAPP For remote desktop (terminal server) application hosting where the user is logging into a full desktop session, MAC users should have a good experience and there are Remote Desktop Connection Clients that can be downloaded for MACs, iphone, and ipad. (The Remote Desktop Connection Client is preloaded on all Windows machines and doesn’t require […]
By default, Remote Desktop Services allows users to disconnect from a remote session without logging off the server and ending the session. When a session is in a disconnected state, running programs are kept active even though the user is no longer actively connected. A disconnected session continues to consume server resources and we recommend […]
Automatically launching a program or application upon login to a Remote Desktop Session. See below for methods to use the “start program at login” policy which can be configured per user. Another method to limit specific programs to a user is via RemoteApp. We have several other posts regarding RemoteApp and how to set it […]
Use the steps below to schedule a task which can automatically reboot your Windows 2008 R2 server on a recurring basis. Please beware that users that are logged on will be kicked off when the server reboots. Go to administrative tools, task scheduler. Then right click on Task Scheduler and select Create Task Name the task, possibly something […]
UPDATE FOR 2012 R2: The Desktop Experience feature is still required to be installed for Disk Cleanup to be available. The Desktop Experience feature is listed under “User Interfaces and Infrastructure” when installing the feature – see Microsoft TechNet link here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/rmilne/archive/2013/07/11/install-desktop-experience-on-windows-server-2012.aspx Disk Cleanup can then be found on the Tools menu in Server Manager. […]
We had a user who was having issues sending email in an older version of outlook on their remote desktop terminal server hosted with Riptide Hosting. The error message upon pressing the send button in Outlook was errors have been detected in the user’s outlook.pst file. This issue was only affecting one user on the […]
Generally we don’t recommend installing FTP on a server unless it is necessary. In some cases, it can be easier to transfer files through RDP. If installing FTP on a remote desktop terminal server and after installation it seems like it is still blocked even though the ports were open on the Windows firewall, try restarting the […]