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mitachu
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Posted - 04/26/2012 :  04:36:45 AM  Show Profile  Click to see mitachu's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
Hi,

We've had a couple of instances where a 2008 R2 server has decided to stop servicing remote desktop connections. Twice this has happened after a server crash (power failure).

Terminal server licencing has been removed and reinstalled, Remote Desktop Services has also been removed and reinstalled. We originally had licensing errors in the event log which a MS hotfix was meant to resolve. After applying the hotfix the errors went away but we the server still isn't accepting connections.

We've only managed to resolve this problem by doing an inplace install of the server - Something of a sledgehammer approach, I feel. I'd love to know what the heck is going on.

Doing a netstat -an shows that the server is listening on 3389 but for whatever reason inbound connections are being denied.

Anyone know what might be occuring here?

Tim

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Posted - 04/26/2012 :  05:12:25 AM  Show Profile  Visit wobble_wobble's Homepage  Look at the Skype address for wobble_wobble  Reply with Quote
Tim,

this goes into some detail on what happens. I'm looking for the full description, but don't have it handy.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755399(v=ws.10).aspx
or
http://url.ie/f723

There are any number of things that will stop a TS working, AV, Firewall, port re-direction etc.
Best way to see is possibly to start with Netmon or Wireshark and see if the traffic is hitting the server.
Then looking with Sysinternals tools at what is going on within the Server.

Joe

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mitachu
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Posted - 04/26/2012 :  06:00:20 AM  Show Profile  Click to see mitachu's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
Thanks Joe.

Tim
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Posted - 04/26/2012 :  07:35:31 AM  Show Profile  Visit Playwell's Homepage  Click to see Playwell's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
What does seem to help as well is to delete the listener, and recreate it.

delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\WinStations\RDP-Tcp
Then create the connection in tsconfig.msc

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mitachu
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Posted - 04/27/2012 :  03:25:13 AM  Show Profile  Click to see mitachu's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
We deleted the RDP-TCP listener in the UI but didn't delete the reg key....

Tim
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Posted - 06/04/2012 :  10:12:24 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Since you mention it and since it seems to have had something to do with the problem at least twice,

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Twice this has happened after a server crash (power failure).


Shouldn't you have a UPS and related software in place to shut them down properly?
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mitachu
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Posted - 06/11/2012 :  5:13:19 PM  Show Profile  Click to see mitachu's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
Some customers like to fly by the seat of their pants.

Tim
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