Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: Remote Desktop Management Server

re: Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: Remote Desktop Management Server

Oliver Wilcock2 — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 11:00:20 GMT

Like some others who commented I landed on this page trying to figure out where in Server 2012 I can find tsadmin to answer the simple question: do any other admins have an open session on machine X? And then how can I send them a message if I need to reboot the server?

Someone suggested RDCMan is the answer to the first question and it does provide a list sessions feature. www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx.

But it doesn't help me send a message, shadow a session or set a certificate on a server that is not intended to provide remote desktop services. Administrators need to do these things on servers which are not RD hosts.

I have to agree with Dave and Gtrapp. Microsoft has made my job harder, again. Another productivity sapping dehancement. I was happy to read that the four tools had been combined but it seems instead of doing it in a useful way Microsoft did it the hard way. Sigh.

re: Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: Remote Desktop Management Server

Gtrapp — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:54:10 GMT

Wow - that's a lot of work to just see who might have a disconnected RDC connection. in 2008 R2 I could check that on any server in about 30 seconds. Now I need to go in and either install all of this stuff of which 95% I don't need or go through a server addition to a group or not be able to have this knowledge. What's the upside for me on my time? How does this make me more productive?

Any chance I could just run a Powershell command to find out who has an open RDC session before I reboot? Blogging that would be most helpful.

re: Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: Remote Desktop Management Server

andreas tan — Fri, 03 May 2013 06:45:13 GMT

i've installed the remote desktop service, client can connect. when i tried to create session collection localhost server (the RDS Host server itself) doesnt appear on server pool, whats wrong ?

Installing RDS on windows server is more complicated on 2012 than 2008 R2 :(

re: Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: Remote Desktop Management Server

Praveen_Tvd — Wed, 01 May 2013 09:33:46 GMT

How to take Win Server 2012 Remote desktop from Win XP systems

re: Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: Remote Desktop Management Server

Dave — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:48:54 GMT

Could you possible make this any more complicated? I'm running a 2012 test server with RDS for Administration only. All I want to do is figure out if another session is established. Easy as pie in 2008R2. Thanks for the "progress"! I love having to relearn things that were previously perfectly easy and commonplace with new ideas that are neither. Looks like I can still use my tools on 2008R2 to do what I need to do on my 2012 test server.

re: Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: Remote Desktop Management Server

Eloy Sánchez — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:28:30 GMT

Una pregunta tengo un solo servidor Win server 2012 Standart -- como activo RDM y configuro en el mismo el servidor de licencias. me esta generando RD no configurado, faltan x dias. para hacerlo.

re: Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: Remote Desktop Management Server

dgeddes [MSFT] — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:00:46 GMT

To answer some of the comments:

You cannot manage 2008 R2 or earlier RDS or TS from Windows Server 2012 RD Management console.

The Certificates UI in 2012 is designed to deploy certificates to remote machines and add them to the correct store automatically. It does not have a feature that will use a certificate that is already in the store, only a certificate that is already stored in the Connection Broker database.

re: Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: Remote Desktop Management Server

Sarun — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:23:14 GMT

How do you add them in Windows 8 ??

re: Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: Remote Desktop Management Server

RDS 2008 R2 — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:50:28 GMT

How do you add 2008 R2 terminal servers to the collection?

re: Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012: Remote Desktop Management Server

Use existing certificate? — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 19:48:03 GMT

The Certificates configuration wizard doesn't seem to pick up existing certificates in the server's certificate store. Is there any programmatic way (such as PowerShell) to do so?