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setadini2475
Copper Contributor
Dec 11, 2019

Port redirection

Hi everybody

I'm migrating some customer services from on-premise RDP session host to WVD.

Some of the customers are using COM-port redirection to manage local hardware devices from an application running on the rdp session host.

If I run the same application on the WVD host pool, when trying to open the COM port I get:

"unable to open com port error 2". I think it's an application error but I don't see any redirected com device in device manager.

Before starting to check in domain gpo's and other settings, is remote com-port redirection supported using wvd?

I cannot find anything in the docs mentioning it so I'd like to know if it should work or if I have to avoid this solution for customers who need port redirection (unfortunately most of them).

 

To be more precise. I'm testing a windows 10 enterprise multi-session session host with windows client (not html5).

 

Thank you in advance

  • @bhushangawale for some reason, I am not seeing your latest response. I did try with the settings you sent. I noticed that redirectcomports was duplicated. so the duplicate was removed.

  • setadini2475's avatar
    setadini2475
    Copper Contributor

    I've found that the problem is only with remoteapp.

    With desktop connection the client is correctly forwarding the com ports and the application works correctly without any difference from the "normal" rdp client.

    Now I have to find out how to make it work also with remoteapp (if possible) with windows 10 enterprise multi-session..

      • bhushangawale's avatar
        bhushangawale
        Brass Contributor

        setadini2475 have you managed to get it working with remote apps? facing similar issue (Win10 Ent Multi-session) and have no clue in documentation whether this is supported or not.

         

        I could see that there used to be a setting called redirectcomports:i:1 with standard RDP setup, however based on this documentation enlisting supported custom rdp properties here do not find this property so not sure how COM ports redirection can be enabled in WVD based setup and specifically when using remote apps scenario?

         

        Any inputs on this will be highly appreciated as it could be a deciding factor to go ahead with wvd or not for the customer in our case. PavithraT Christiaan_Brinkhoff

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