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Nicholas Semenkovich
Copper Contributor
Mar 26, 2019

Does MFA Work? & Oops, we couldn't connect to "Session Desktop"

I can't seem to connect to a WVD host after following the tutorial. 

 

With my account (MFA enforced), access via the web prompts for a password again, then gives the error: Oops, we couldn't connect to "Session Desktop"

 

 

Access via the desktop client gets stuck in a loop, asking for my password over and over.

 

The Powershell diagnostics (via Get-RdsDiagnosticActivities) shows a "Failure" with each attempt -- but no more details:

 

ActivityId : f5dfe22c-9ec7-4c49-be1e-ab5658900000
ActivityType : Connection
StartTime : 3/26/2019 2:02:37 PM
EndTime : 3/26/2019 2:02:56 PM
UserName : ***
RoleInstances : rdwebclient;mrs-eus2r1c002-rdgateway-prod-staging::RD0003FF459F62;mrs-eus2r1c002-rdbroker-prod-stag
ing::RD0003FF45DF76;≤ahp-0.contoso.com≥
Outcome : Failure
Status : Completed
Details : {[ClientOS, Linux x86_64 Chrome 73.0.3683.88], [ClientVersion, 1.0.13-wvd], [ClientType, HTML],
[PredecessorConnectionId, ]...}
LastHeartbeatTime : 3/26/2019 2:02:56 PM
Checkpoints : {LoadBalancedNewConnection}
Errors : {Microsoft.RDInfra.Diagnostics.Common.DiagnosticsErrorInfo}

 

Anyone else seeing this? I'm tempted to blame MFA but ... ?

2 Replies

  • Nicholas Semenkovich : Can you run the same query and save the object to a variable, then look at the errors by expanding the Errors property?

     

    Also, some quick steps to troubleshoot...does the user exist both in Azure AD and your Windows Server AD?

    • Nicholas Semenkovich's avatar
      Nicholas Semenkovich
      Copper Contributor

      Closing the loop here --

       

      We were using Azure AD online only (with Azure AD joined desktops) & just added Azure AD Domain Services for WVD.

       

      Apparently enabling Azure AD Domain Services doesn't sync passwords to the Cloud DC on login -- you have to change user passwords for hashes to sync to the DC (which is what caused this error).

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