Windows 7 Terminal Services Configuration
New troubleshooting features in the Windows 7 System Configuration tool by Greg Shultz in Windows and Office, in Microsoft on November 2, 2010, 6:47 AM PST. Mar 29, 2019 'Terminal Services' is the former name for 'Remote Desktop Services,' which is an application built into Windows operating systems that, when enabled, allows users to access any other computer on the network from.
Use the Terminal Services Configuration Tool. Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Terminal Services Configuration. In the console tree, click Server Settings. In the Details pane, right-click Session Directory, and then click Properties. Click to select the Join session directory check box. In the Cluster name box, type the name of the terminal server cluster for this terminal server. Microsoft RDS is the new expanded and renamed Microsoft Terminal Services. In this post I will document the implementation of RDS in my home lab using an ‘all-in-one’ configuration. VBoring Blog Series: Setup Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012 R2; Setup RD Licensing Role on Windows Server 2012 R2. Terminal Services Configuration. Once you have installed the TS role and the Terminal Server role service, you can configure TS using TS Configuration. TS Configuration allows you to determine the TS connections that are on the computer and their properties, as well as the server settings. Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 or Later Computer Configuration- Administrative Templates- Windows Components- Remote Desktop Services- Remote Desktop Session Host- Connections. At the location, find the policy named Allow users to connect remotely using Terminal Services or Allow users to connect remotely using Remote Desktop Services, and set it to Enable. The area reserved for terminal servers is located under HKLM SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion Drivers32 Terminal Server RDP. The video driver configuration plays a certain role for the user session, too.
Many administrators of Windows terminal servers might have noticed that starting from Windows Server 2012, the management snap-ins tsadmin.msc (Remote Desktop Services Manager) and tsconfig.msc (Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration) disappeared from RDS servers. MS developers have decided that the majority of RDS server settings could be managed using Server Manager or group policy editor console (gpedit.msc), but the old snap-ins are more convenient and familiar.
Let’s see how to get tsadmin.msc and tsconfig.msc snap-ins back to RDS servers running Windows Server 2012/ R2.
To do it, you have to copy 7 files and registry keys from any server running Windows Server 2008 R2 to the same directory C:WindowsSystem32 on Windows 2012 Server. Copy the following 7 files:
- c:windowssystem32tsadmin.dll
- c:windowssystem32tsconfig.dll
- c:windowssystem32wts.dll
- c:windowssystem32tsconfig.msc
- c:windowssystem32tsadmin.msc
- c:windowssystem32entsconfig.resources.dll
- c:windowssystem32entsadmin.resources.dll
Then on Windows Server 2008 R2 by using regedit.exe you have to export two registry branches to the *.reg files.
- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftMMCSnapInsFX:{80aaa290-abd9-9239-7a2d-cf4f67e42128}]
- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftMMCSnapInsFX:{3FCE72B6-A31B-43ac-ADDA-120E1E56EB0F}]
And import these *.reg files to Windows Server 2012 registry.
Note. If you don’t have a deployed copy of Windows Server 2008 R2 at hand, you can download the archive with the necessary files from our website.- The set of files for the English version of Windows Server — tsadmin_msc_win2012.zip
Then try to start the necessary snap-in using commands tsadmin.msc:
or tsconfig.msc:
Terminal Services Manager Windows 7
It should be noted that using tsadmin.msc console you won’t be able to connect to the terminal user session (error: Access is denied). It is possible to connect to an RDS session using the scenarios described in RDS Shadowing on Windows Server 2012 R2.