We had a issue with a new Windows 8.1 install, when the user login to the RemoteApp Web Access Portal, and opened a Remoteapp, it´s just stuck on “Preparing Windows”, the same thing happens if i used the RemoteApp and Desktop Connections from the control panel.
To fix it i added the RD Web Access url to trusted sites in Internet Explorer.
example: *rds.company.com
From Server Manager it´s not possible to publish an application from a Network shared folder, But from Powershell you can do it, here is how:
New-RDRemoteApp -Alias "App Name" -CollectionName "Collection" -DisplayName "APP DisplayName" -FilePath "\\server01\apps\app.exe" -ConnectionBroker connectionbroker.domain.local
If you Windows is stuck in a rebooting loop “rebooting into Windows recovery / repair mode”
put in a Windows disc and start a commandline and run this command to disabled it:
bcdedit /set {current} recoveryenabled No
In Windows 8.1 Microsoft made a bigger change related to desktop performance.
By default Users logon scripts is 5 minutes delayed.
To disabled or reduce the delay between user logon and when the scripts run, find this policy in Group policy Editor
“Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\System\Group Policy\Configure Logon Script Delay”
I installed Adobe Reader XI on our Windows Server 2012 R2 RDS servers, and we start to get this error when we started Adobe Reader.
After some time on Google i found out that disabling Adobe Reader XI sandbox protection mode fixed the error.
go to the registry and find this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\11.0\FeatureLockDown
Create a new REG_DWORD
Value Name
bProtectedMode
Value Data
0
Microsoft had released an update for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 KMS Hosts to support WIndows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2885698/en-us
Install the update and reboot, then add the new Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows 8.1 KMS Host key
We have had performance issues for a few weeks at night, all our Hyper-V Servers where performing like CRAP every night around 3 AM and for about 45 minutes.
After a long night of investigation with my colleague, we found out that Windows 2012 is running a maintenance job around 03:00 each day.
When we stopped it all began to run as normal. This caused overloading of the SAN SP and gave high disk queue on all servers attached to the SAN.
But, after we disabled the Scheduled Task “Regular Maintenance“, it got enabled Again after some hours.
To avoy this disable “Maintenance Configurator“, but this can´t be done from GUI
To disable Maintenance Configurator run this command on a server with PsExec Link :
psexec \\SERVERNAME -s schtasks /change /tn "\Microsoft\Windows\TaskScheduler\Maintenance Configurator" /DISABLE
