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Step by Step Redirecting and Managing the modern Start Menu in Windows 2012(R2) RDS

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Arjan Mensch — 47 Comments

I got several requests and questions about customizing and managing a redirected Start Menu when using a Full Desktop session collection. This post will cover the basics for doing that and is based on implementations we have done for real…

Tagged with: RDS, Windows 2012, Windows 2012 R2
Posted in Remote Desktop, Step-by-Step guide, Windows 2012, Windows 2012 R2

Sidder: Quickly see which User Profile Disk maps to which Domain User

Posted on December 15, 2013 by Arjan Mensch — 26 Comments

UPDATE November 23rd 2014: I removed the download link. There’s a new version available, along with a new blog post. Working with a Remote Desktop Services deployment where User Profile Disks are used in an environment with a lot of…

Tagged with: Remote Desktop Services
Posted in Remote Desktop, Tools, Windows 2012, Windows 2012 R2

Redirect to the Remote Web Access pages (/RDWeb)

Posted on December 7, 2013 by Arjan Mensch — 27 Comments

If you have published Remote Desktop Web Access out of the box, and you visit http(s)://<url for remote desktop web access>, you’ll be presented with the IIS welcome page: To prevent this you need to redirect the root to /RDWeb.…

Tagged with: RD Web Access, RDS, Remote Desktop Services, Windows 2012, Windows 2012 R2
Posted in Remote Desktop, Windows 2012, Windows 2012 R2

Remove “Connect to a remote PC” tab from Remote Desktop Web Access

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Arjan Mensch — 10 Comments

UPDATE: See Paulo’s comment for an update / fix from Microsoft for this issue. My solution still works, but a Microsoft update is available. Recently we published a Remote Desktop connection for a customer using Windows 2012 Remote Desktop Web…

Tagged with: Customizing, RD Web Access, RDS, Windows 2012
Posted in Customize, Remote Desktop, Windows 2012