Showing posts with label Authentication and Encryption setting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Authentication and Encryption setting. Show all posts

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Looking for a specific GPO setting, corresponding registry key or corresponding .admx file?

When you work with Group Policy Objects (GPO’s) regularly, or even better, when you don’t work with GPO’s regularly, the following scenario’s will sound familiar.

- I know this GPO setting exists, I know it had the words “Delegating Saved Credentials” in it but where is that specific policy in the GPO tree?

- I have this GPO setting here, but what is the corresponding registry key?

- I have this GPO setting here, but what is the corresponding .admx file?

- I have this GPO setting here, but is a logoff required
Save yourself some time searching the net and bookmark the following page: (or this blog post J)
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=25250
It contains several fully searchable Excel sheets, which contain GPO settings with columns like policy setting name, scope, admx file, registry key etc!

These sheets have been around for some time, but I thought it might be useful information to give it some extra attention.

There also is a online variant here: http://gps.cloudapp.net/

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Resolving "Remote Desktop Disconnected" or "Unable to Connect to Remote Desktop (Terminal Server)"

Solutions for errors such as “Unable to RDP,” “Remote Desktop Disconnected,” or “Unable to Connect to Remote Desktop (Terminal server)” are frequently asked for on TechNet Forums. There are 4 commonly seen Symptoms to this error:
  1. You may be limited in the number of users who can connect simultaneously to a Remote Desktop session or Remote Desktop Services session
  2. You may have a Port assignment conflict
  3. You may have an incorrectly configured Authentication and Encryption setting
  4. You may have a corrupted Certificate
The corresponding KB is:
Article ID: 186645 - Last Review: December 22, 2010 - Revision: 3.0
Troubleshooting RDP Client connection problems
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/186645

For more details check this blog post by the Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services) Team:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rds/archive/2011/01/10/how-to-resolve-the-issue-remote-desktop-disconnected-or-unable-to-connect-to-remote-desktop-terminal-server.aspx