Category: Terminal Services | A Windows System Admin's Blog

Adventures with setting up RDS RemoteApp and Web Access in Windows Server 2012 R2

So I was recently setting up a demo environment in Azure with two servers. Our goal was to have Remote Web Access and then publish RemoteApps through that so we could give live demos. The process to setup Remote Desktop Services is much easier in Server 2012 / 2012 R2 thanks to the Add Remove … Continue reading

Default printer changes after Terminal Server (or print spooler service) restart

Just a quick post today. I was troubleshooting an issue where a user would set a default network printer (say Printer01) in their user profile, upon a server restart (which happens nightly) their printer would be set back to the Adobe PDF local printer. After going through event logs and some basic troubleshooting through Group … Continue reading

Remotely enable Remote Desktop to connect to a remote PC

Occasionally you need to get something done on a remote computer (or a clients computer) but the computer doesn’t have an easy way for you to connect to it. Luckily, if you have admin rights to the remote computer, you can still connect without needing to turn on remote desktop before hand. To do that … Continue reading