Came across a weird issue at one of my customers recently where RDP connections would randomly (or so it seemed) drop when users were working on remote machines. They are using Configuration Manager 2012 and have client settings setup so that Remote Control is enabled on all clients. After seeing this post by Wes Kroesbergen and this …
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Apr 23
RDP not working after applying SP1 on Windows 2008 R2
After you install SP1 on Windows 2008 R2 SP1, you may encounter problems with RDP after reboot. This happens if http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2667402 is already installed. Fix: Uninstall http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2667402 before installing SP1J If you already have installed SP1 with KB2667402 already installed you must uninstall KB2667402 and then re-apply it. You can uninstall it remotely with following …
Mar 22
Windows 2008 R2 Terminal server stops responding after Outlook attachment error
I experienced a very strange issue on a Windows 2008 SP1 R2 Terminal Server. When a user attached an attachment from a network share in Outlook 2010, a dialog box came up stating the attachment was downloading. Outlook was slow, and both Outlook and Explorer.exe was getting “application errors”. The server was slower and slower, …
May 20
Transfering files to your RDP session
Often you need to copy a script or a file to your active RDP session. There are several ways to accomplish this. One way is to map the C$ share of the server and copy it. Another way is to make sure that local drives are checked in the RDP client like this: This will …
Mar 05
Looking up passwords in Mremote
I use the fantastic program mremote all the time. I just upgraded to mremoteng that supports tsg by the way. I usually add the password to a folder that contains a lot of connections and as times goes by I seem to forget the password. So I found out a genius method for retrieving the …
Jul 13
Hyper-V and Integration Services
So I’ve set up a Hyper-V environment in my lab and installed Windows Server 2008 on one of my guest VMs, and it works great! However, one little thing annoyed me a little bit. Using RDP to the parent OS (where the Hyper-V role is installed) didn’t let me use the mouse inside the guest …
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