Terminal Services has fallen and it can't get up...

[FredUG]

What a bad week so far. Exchange died and I finally got it recovered and now the TS server died. I had to do a repair of teh windows install to get the box back up but the ex-admin had installed the system drive as "G:\" instead of "C:\" but when the repair install it changed the pointers to "C" and now stuff stopped working.

TS service starts OK but when a client tried to connect it fails with a pop-up box that reads:

"The client could not connect to the remote computer..

Remote connections might not be enabled or the computer might be too busy to accept..." blah blah blah...

So I fired up the TS Manager and instead of showing a "RDP-Tcp (listener)" it shows "Down (65537)" so I suspect that's the problem.

Additionally, I can't find the licences the company bought for app mode so is there a way to recover them from a file or the registry?

Thanks,

FredUG

 

[svsawkar]

You can wack the client license and it will get a temporary license until the license pack is reinstalled. This goes against the EULA, but if you have the paperwork, you are ok for a short time. I don't have a TS Manager GUI in front of me- but can you right click on the RDP-TCP?

/Siddharth

 

[FredUG]

Thanks for the advice. I've rebuilt a new TS machine because the old one was too far gone. I just need to find the license info and I understand that it's machine dependant so even if I find it for the old machine it wouldn't work on the new one.

FredUG