Remote Dekstop Connection using Azure MFA
Hello Everyone, I am facing a little problem now. We are thinking to implement MFA to login in to our servers on-prem from internal network. Obviously we can use some third party tools such us DUO or AD Professional Plus. However from what I can see there is a possibility to use RD Gateway with NPS that will have MFA plugin on it. I just need to understand something correctly - am I right saying that I can handle all RDP traffic to all the servers through RD Gateway that will be redirecting authentication through NPS to Azure MFA or it is no go? Regards, WojciechAnnouncing public preview of RDP Shortpath transport for Windows Virtual Desktop
As we promised during the Microsoft Ignite conference, we are introducing a new capability that can take into account the type of network you are connecting from, and when possible, establish a direct peer-to-peer UDP transport rather than using the Windows Virtual Desktop gateways. For a starter, I would like to remind you that Windows Virtual Desktop uses Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to provide remote display and input capabilities over network connections. RDP has initially released 22 years ago with Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition and was continuously evolving with every Microsoft Windows and Windows Server release. From the beginning, RDP developed to be independent of its underlying transport stack, and today it supports multiple types of transport. It could be a Hyper-V bus transport for managing VMs using the Enhanced Session Mode or TCP-based transport in Quick Assist, or combined TCP/UDP transport for on-premises deployments. When we designed Windows Virtual Desktop, we built an entirely new transport called Reverse Connect. Reverse connect transport is used both for establishing the remote session and for carrying RDP traffic. Unlike the on-premises RDS deployments, reverse connect transport doesn't use an inbound TCP listener to receive incoming RDP connections. Instead, it is using outbound connectivity to the Windows Virtual Desktop infrastructure over the HTTPS connection. This gives a secure and simple way to implement connectivity for your remote desktops. For the details about reverse connect, see a brand new topic in Windows Virtual Desktop documentation. While reverse connect gives a secure and reliable way of communicating with desktop, it is based on TCP protocol, and its performance is heavily dependent on the network latency. It also inherits other drawbacks from TCP, such as slow start, congestion control, and others. Introducing RDP Shortpath RDP Shortpath is a family of UDP-based transports that extend Windows Virtual Desktop connectivity options. Key benefits of Shortpath are: RDP Shortpath transport is based on top of a highly efficient Universal Rate Control Protocol (URCP). URCP enhances UDP with active monitoring of the network conditions and provides fair and full link utilization. URCP operates at low delay and loss levels as needed by Remote Desktop. URCP achieves the best performance by dynamically learning network parameters and providing protocol with a rate control mechanism. RDP Shortpath establishes the direct connectivity between Remote Desktop client and Session Host. Direct connectivity reduces the dependency on the Windows Virtual Desktop gateways, improves the connection's reliability, and increases the bandwidth available for each user session. The removal of additional relay reduces the round-trip time, which improves user experience with latency-sensitive applications and input methods. RDP Shortpath brings support for configuring Quality of Service (QoS) priority for RDP connections through a Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) marks RDP Shortpath transport allows limiting outbound network traffic by specifying a throttle rate for each session. Sounds good? Then try it yourself by following the detailed documentation. Feedback We'd like to hear from you about your experiences with this public preview! For questions, requests, comments, and other feedback about RDP Shortpath, please use this feedback form. Don't hesitate to post feature suggestions on: https://aka.ms/wvdfbk Next steps Learn more in the brand-new networking section of Windows Virtual Desktop documentation : Understanding Windows Virtual Desktop network connectivity Windows Virtual Desktop RDP Shortpath Implement Quality of Service (QoS) for Windows Virtual Desktop Remote Desktop Protocol bandwidth requirements
Server 2019 auto-locks when idling even over RDP, how to prevent?
In 2016, the monitor timed out and required a password at the actual computer. But when using remote desktop, the screen never idled off for as long as the connection was open. But in 2019 while I am sitting at my desktop with an RDP window open to the server on a second monitor, it will blank out after a couple minutes and show a password. Is there any way to prevent it from idling off under an RDP connection, while still keeping that behaviour when actually at the server? As in, how it worked for me out of the box in 2016. Thanks
Windows server 2019 RDP UDP mode
Hello! RDP is not working in the currently released 2019 iso version. After connection we have black screen. The RDP service hangs and crashes. The problem can be solved by switching the connection to TCP mode. In the latest build of Preview, this is not seen as known bugs or corrected. Is this fixed?Windows server RDP black screen
Hello! I have 3 windows server machines in different places (with different domain, fully separated) with windows server 2019 OS, all of them does this, sometimes when I try to log in to the computer with remote desktop I only get a black screen, the CRTL+ALT+END does nothing, and after some time the connection closes. If I open the computer via idrac (DELL) nothing works I cannot move the mouse, the only solution is the hard reboot. I have a foth server with server 2016 OS which works well. I tried to update one of them to server 2022, but nothing changed the problem persists. The problem mostly occurs when I don't log out of the remote desktop, I just close the window. But it also happened that I logged out before. This is very annoying, what can cause this?
Custom resolution on Android Remote Desktop app only offers fixed ratios connected to device screen
I have two Android devices using nonstandard monitor display ratios (21:9, 5:3). I have previously set up profiles on one of these devices with a 16:9 ratio resolution that matches my remote session's actual physical display. This prevents a number of strange resizing issues when switching between a local and remote session. However, in the current latest (beta) version, 10.0.13.1167, I'm now limited to resolutions matching the device's ratio. Is there a way to change this to allow for picking a ratio, or at least revert to the previous functionality? If this is the wrong place for this, I apologize. I was linked here from a Remote Desktop support page, and couldn't find a better place via searching.
RDP Licensing in Server 2019
Good morning Everyone, I had posted this message the other day but I can not find it now so I hope it's not a duplicate! How do I license RDP for Windows 2019? I've stood up 2 Windows 2019 Insider servers, one for an RDP license server and the other for a development server. My developers need Windows Services for Linux and the likes so moving to 2019 was the only way I found to get there with a GUI. I'm trying to activate licenses and the license server, when set to automatic, returns an error and says chose another method of activation. Trying to use activate.microsoft.com doesn't work and neither does telephone activation. Are there any facilities in place for activating RDP licenses yet? If so, how to I get there from here? If not, I can run RDP in eval mode for the 120 days but then, are activation facilities expected to be in place before the evaluation ends? Thanks, -brian
Applications not launching with latest AVD update
Hello there fellow users - first time poster. I also have an open ticket with Microsoft with this particular issue. I feel like this is something obvious I'm missing here though and any ideas would certainly be appreciated. My org utilizes AVD for connecting to a AVD pool of terminal servers for end users. Within that pool are application groups and clients assigned to the groups, although application groups by and large have the same clients. Here's our typical workspace: The issue we are currently having, is that with the last 2 or 3 recent versions of Remote Desktop, and only on SOME computers, is that the applications will not launch properly. The application will begin to launch for a second or so, and then stop and disappear. This is the last thing an affected user sees before the launch box disappears (AVD will remain open): As a work around, we've had affected users/workstations remove the latest version and install version 1.2.2688.0 where this behavior does NOT occur. There are no relevant windows event logs from what I can tell. All affected users are using Windows 10. Here are my AVD RDP Properties in Azure: Thank you!RDP freeze issue on some websites - RDS 2019
Hello, I've seen a few of these strange issues before and hear other people about this too. When a customer is logged on a RDP session on a RDS host, sometimes when they open a website (in Chrome), the whole RDP session just hangs. The only option is to log off the session or to kill all chome processes. Does this sound familier to anyone? This seems only to happen(as far as i can see) on server 2019. Any idea what this could be causing?
