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Matt_OCC
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Apr 02, 2020

Cameras To Redirect Custom RDP Property Does not Work

In mstsc.exe, under Local Resources > More.. there is an option for Video capture devices.  Which lists my webcam and Devices that I plug in later.  I have determined that this option the an RDP file...
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Matt_OCC
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May 19, 2020

I was able to run this powershell command on each connection broker and it was able to work.  I would also still run the Set-RDSessionCollectionConfiguration command for the custom value as well.

 

<collection alias> would be the value of CollectionAlias from Get-RDSessionCollection

 

 

$alias = <collection Alias>
$RDPFileContents = (Get-ItemProperty "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Terminal Server\CentralPublishedResources\PublishedFarms\$alias\RemoteDesktops\$alias\").RDPFileContents
$RDPFileContents += "camerastoredirect:s:*`n"
Set-ItemProperty "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Terminal Server\CentralPublishedResources\PublishedFarms\$alias\RemoteDesktops\$alias\" -Name RDPFileContents -Value $RDPFileContents

 

 

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Matt_OCC
Copper Contributor
May 19, 2020
Like I thought, editing the collection overwrites this value and it has to be updated again. The fact that the property does not get to the file property is a bug I believe. How can we escalate this with Microsoft's rdp team?
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    RoanPaes
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    May 29, 2020

    Matt_OCC  I was unable to upload the VB because of clients info within the file.  But I feel your solution works way better. 


    The one I used roughly looks like the below (it is missing lots of bits and pieces, but the idea is, once you have your registry exported, you create the VBS file with all you need plus the camera support).

     

     & "promptcredentialonce:i:1" & VbCrLf _
    & "videoplaybackmode:i:1" & VbCrLf _
    & "audiocapturemode:i:1" & VbCrLf _
    & "gatewayusagemethod:i:2" & VbCrLf _
    & "gatewayprofileusagemethod:i:1" & VbCrLf _
    & "gatewaycredentialssource:i:0" & VbCrLf _
    & "full address:s:REMOTE.yourdomain.com" & VbCrLf _
    & "gatewayhostname:s:remote.yourdomain.com" & VbCrLf _
    & "workspace id:s:REMOTE.yourdomain.com" & VbCrLf _
    & "use redirection server name:i:1" & VbCrLf _
    & "loadbalanceinfo:s:tsv://MS Terminal Services Plugin.1.RDS-Desktop" & VbCrLf _

    Dim WSHShell
    set WSHShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
    WSHShell.RegWrite "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Terminal Server\CentralPublishedResources\PublishedFarms\BCB-Desktop\RemoteDesktops\BCB-Desktop\RDPFileContent", myval, "REG_SZ"

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      Matt_OCC
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      Jul 13, 2020

      RoanPaes I found editing the registry directly through powershell the easies.  I've run into the issue with a HA collection continually gets written over any time any collection in the deployment changed.  It seems to be part of the sync process between the collection brokers.  I've written a small script to cycle through all of the collections and append the registry to deal with it, just haven't decided on when I should trigger this.