>NULL: August 2017

Wednesday 30 August 2017

RemoteApp on Windows 7 client prompts for credentials second time and says Login Failed

Sometimes people have older PC's that you have to support. I know right, FFS...

A perfectly functional RDS RemoteApp deployment (in Win 8 - 10) will give you a Login Failed password prompt when launching an app from the web portal.

Your primary suspect should be HTTP Redirection in IIS. Turn it off! 

To bump people from the default HTTP site to RDWeb use the following html file customised with your domain.

<html>
  <head>
    <title>RDWeb redirect</title>
    <META http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=https://remote.EXAMPLE.co.uk/RDWeb/">
  </head>
  <body bgcolor="#ffffff">
    <center>Forwarding you to https://remote.EXAMPLE.co.uk/RDWeb/ <a href="https://remote.EXAMPLE.co.uk/RDWeb/"> https://remote.EXAMPLE.co.uk/RDWeb/</a>
    </center>
  </body>
</html>



Thursday 24 August 2017

DNS name resolves wrongly on Windows

I had an issue where a DNS record was updated but a Windows PC would not see the change, even adding an entry in the hosts file was ignored.

Running the following in an elevated command prompt fixed the issue.

netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt