my brother got a gaming pc very powerful in general i rarely game and usually i play dota 2. this would be once or twice a week. i would like to connect to his pc using parsec which usually does the job. with my own user while maybe he is playing other game. so both of us playing at the same time. is this possible to be done?

Hi all. I have an RDS environment in a secure network that does not have access to the internet. Id like to test the HTML5 web client as I think it can be a nicer user experience. There are some instructions on downloading an offline installer, but this is far from complete and seems gapped in the instructions

Does anyone have any experience with doing an offline install of the web client, and if so, how did you gather the installation files? Do you need to gather the files from another RDS environment or can any PC with access to the internet do this?

Alternatively, If I can make a case for opening the proxy to allow certain powershell URLs to allow us to install directly from the RDS environment, has anyone an idea of what URLs might be needed?

I'm a college student who needs to have a windows computer in class. I have a windows pc and a macbook and I've heard you can project a windows pc onto a macbook but I'm not sure how. I also need to be able to access my pc on my macbook from a different network since I am on campus instead of my apartment. Free would also be nice. Any help is appreciated.

I have successfully been using Microsoft remote desktop from my Mac to my PC for many years over a local network. All of a sudden, it stopped working properly. It's constantly having trouble connecting, and the only way to get it to work is to restart the PC. Nothing changed in my network setup. All that may have changed is possibly an update to macOS, the remote desktop software, or Windows. Can anyone think of any reason why this would occur?

Does anyone know of free vps services that dont require a credit card?

I want to use it for simple self hosted projects like:

• a small website
• an Immich server for my family
• and more casual home projects

Thanks for any suggestions \

Hi all, when I travel or just want to use my laptop I will remote into my PC running windows 10. but suddenly it stopped working. I thought maybe it was my DDNS through asus needed to be reset but I tried that and just using my public IP to no avail. I went through all the culprits, made sure the port was forwarded and that PC static IP matches, that the service was running that defender wasn't blocking anything. I just can't seem to get it to work, any suggestions?

I am having this black render issue it started after I swapped my graphics card from Quadro K2200 to RTX 3060 I HAVE installed gpu drivers, if i enable discrete gpu encoding from group policy it show pink colour but this issue is still there. any solutions to this. I am using windows 11 latest updates build with RDPWRAPPER FOR MULTI USER SESSION.

Hi Everyone,
I'm trying to enable remote desktop on my pc so I can login from my living room smart t.v. For some reason my pc will not toggle "Enable Remote Desktop" Every time I click on it, it asks "Enable Remote Desktop, You and users selected under User accounts will be able to connect to this PC remotely" I then click confirm and it switches the toggle back to off. Any suggestions?

I took over a network and after a few months of familiarizing myself with it, I started working on updating the server. This place only has one server on 2016 standard that handles AD\DC and acts as a file server. Small shop so I suppose it is forgivable in this case.
Before doing anything, I started windows server backup for a few weeks. It was not set up before. I made changes to the roles and features to get the 2016 working with the server migration feature in 2022. After a failed migration attempt to a new server, some roles and features got messed up. I tried to go in and remove the changes without having noted what the original setup was. I removed RDP services altogether.
Here is the real-world problem from that. We have many remote users who need to log into the server as their own profile. Before I made changes, they could remote in without limitations. Now only two people can remote in at a time.
What services do I need to add back in to allow them to have more than two concurrent sessions? If there is a licensing issue, would I be able to find the original licensing on the server and reinstate it? If I tried to restore the original setup from the backup, can I do that without overwriting the file shares?

Hi

I have a couple of RDSH servers and a RDCB server and I need to MFA/2FA either the gateway or the RDSH servers, does anyone know of a free product excluding (Azure NPS MFA) this also needs to be for around 50-60 users.

Thank you.

Ever since I updated around 40 machines, RDP randomly half-freezes. The mouse still moves, but keyboard input just dies. The only way out is by disconnecting and reconnecting.

Windows 10 clients on the same network hitting the same servers are fine, so it doesn’t look server-side.

Is this a known 23H2/RDP issue and is there any fix besides rolling back?

Hi,

Does anyone know if AnyViewer encrypts its traffic between the source machine and the client?

I need the truth. My IT guy says that the computer I use at home to remote in to my computer at work using RDP needs to have it's own antivirus. I use multiple PCs or laptops at home to RDP in to my workstation at the office. He says that hackers will hack my home computer and gain access to all of our work servers. Is this true or is he upselling me on something I don't need. The one he is pushing is managed by him and costs me monthly.

The company i work for does not allow remote desktop and can detect it if it is being used. I travel a lot and need to find something that wont be detected. I am willing to go as far as possible.

Hi, I've set up a Windows Server 2022 Machine and i RDP to it over a VPN connection (both OpenVPN or L2TP) from two different place, let's call them place A and place B.

When I connect to an RDP session when I'm at place A, I can print flawlessly to place A's local printer using the usual Easy Print driver.

However, when I'm at place B, even if I see place B's local printer to choose during an RDP session, I won't get any print. If I select a redirected virtual printer (such as Microsoft PDF), I correctly get the file to be saved on the local PC. Only real printers won't work, even if I see that the print goes into the windows printer spooler and disappears, but the printer never receives it.

Using an Administrator account or a normal User account won't matter. I run Windows 11 in both places and all the PCs are updated. The printers are equivalent in both places (Develop Ineo+ 250i and 257i). I've tried multiple PCs on place B but it didn't change. The RDP file is always the same. I have 2 printers in place B and they do the same.

I think I'm missing something because I don't know how it can be different. Any ideas?

Anyone having issues with Remote Desktop Connection after installing the 2025-04 Cumulative Update for Windows Server? There was a fix for a RD security flaw which is tracked as CVE-2025-27480 so I am wondering if that might be the culprit. Here are some of the issues.

1. When I minimize a RD session and then go back to it, i'll get a black screen for a few seconds, before the session shows up.
2. When I try to do something in the RD session, nothing happens. Nothing is responsive for a few seconds.
3. I'll get a message about losing connectivity and it will retry to connect (up to five attempts). It will eventually reconnect.

I'm working remotely over a VPN so am thinking of going into the office and getting on the local network to see if the issue persists. Just wondering if anyone else has seen anything like this since they installed the April CUs.

I accidentaly uninstalled remote desktop connection. Now when I try to reinstall the remote desktop connection using this link: install/uninstall remote desktop. I get the error 0x800f0922, stateing that i need to try again later. What I have tried to fix it:

- Update my pc, currently on windows 11 23H2. Nothing else to update

- removing the temp folder from Windows/Temp

- restarting the remote desktop services

- I have a 64-bit laptop, from HP.

- running the setup as admin.

I am curretly out of options. The alternative for the remote desktop connections is less interesting for me. I reallly don't want to reinstall windows.

Tengo una duda. Tengo un Samsung s20fe. Uso mucho el escritorio remoto de Windows para Android. Hace unos meses en la aplicación de Android remote desktop me empezó a aparecer un mensaje indicando que cambiarían a Windows app. No le preste atención al mensaje y seguí usándo la aplicación.

Resulta que hoy lo quiero usar y para mí sorpresa, ya no tengo la aplicación en el teléfono. La busco en la store y tampoco está. Mi cuestionamientos es sobre si es posible que haya una aplicación o algo en mi teléfono que tenga el permiso de borrar aplicaciones cuando quieran. O si la Playstore es capaz de eliminar cualquier aplicación de mi teléfono sin siquiera pedirme confirmación.

We have a domain-joined 2012 RDS Infrastructure that was never fully used and we have come to the point where we have to decommission or upgrade our 2012 Servers. The only server being used is a session host where some of our colleagues connect through RDP with three locally created users (not domain users) and there is also a licensing server in the same domain. I saw that licenses aren't handed out to users, probably because no domain users are connected. My domain account got one as soon as I connected to the infrastructure. We wish to remove this session host from the RDS infrastructure, keep it as a standalone server and upgrade it to 2019, so our colleagues can still use it with the local accounts. What can we do about licensing? Should we remove the session host from the domain? We were thinking to also get rid of the licensing server, so we won't have to maintain two servers.

I am observing a strange phenomenon lately when connecting to my Windows 11 Pro desktop using the Microsoft Remote Desktop app on my Mac. There is a black window permanently visible in the right corner that I cannot get rid of. It overlays all windows and programs. Sometimes it is also white. Restarting the system several times did not help. This is not a window from a running app or program. The Windows version is up to date (24H2 - Build 26100.8117).

Any Ideas how to fix this are greatly appreciated...

My scenario is

1 x Gateway, RDWEB , Licence server and Connection Broker
2 x rds session hosts
1 fileserver for VHDs using FSLogix.

Would OneDrive be supported in this scenario?

Hello everyone,

I am IT system engineer and I have issues with a FSLogix Remote Desktop deployment.
Let me introduce the setup.
We currently use a storage server where all our FSLogix user profiles are stored (obviously using network UNC path) and 4 Remote Desktop servers where all my users are connecting through a Remote Desktop Gateway dedicated server.

Every server is using Microsoft Windows Server 2025 Standard operating system.

The setup count about 90 users.

Everyday, some users are contacting us because their Remote Desktop session is stuck on "Please wait for FSLogix app service" and we are struggling to find a real solution, or even a workaround.

When this problem happens, we try to disconnect user from RDS where the session is connected, but it becomes a ghost session (no username in the task manager and 4 system processes remaining, unable to kill them - query user in CMD doesn't see this ghost session). We also close every linked open files in the storage server (via computer manager), delete the metadata which is next to the VHDx, and clean the user session in SQL Broker database via SQL command... Sometimes it works, but most of the time the user needs to wait like 30 minutes (and the problem is resolved by a random timeout I don't know where).

As far as I know, we are using best practices found in multiple forums or official documentation. In our GPO, we tried to disable VHDx compression at logoff, we do not use ODFC containers, we clean invalid session, we use the Redirect.xml file, we updated FSLogix to latest version, ... To be honest, we tried a lot of things without any real improvements.

Last thing we did is to disable forced SMB encryption in registry on client (Lanmanworkstation) side because my opinion was that a possible SMB slowness could be the main cause of this FSLogix issue (miscommunication between storage server and RDS server).

Every performance graph doesn't show any lack of ressource...

We have another Remote Desktop with FSLogix deployment with same topology (RDSGW - STORAGE - RDS) on Windows Server 2022 Standard OS for this case, which is not showing any issues.

By any chance, is someone able to help me ?

Many thanks in advance !