TS Web Access Question

[dberg35]

Currently my users use RDP to log into the TS Server but I want to use TS Web Access but having an issue. It is asking to install Active X but users are not allowed only admins. I made a change in GP but still same issue, any ideas?

 

[TechyMcSe2k]

You need RDP v6 to access Windows 2008 TS properly.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925876

More here on what the ActiveX control is trying to do.

http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/ar...-terminal-server-web-access-architecture.aspx

 

[dberg35]

Thanks but I am running Windows 2003 64 bit

 

[TechyMcSe2k]

Sorry about that. What are your clients running? XP, Vista? Also, do you know if they are running the RDP 6.1 (which has the ActiveX control included)
Note:
The new RDP client has the ActiveX control installed for the web. Users will still be prompted to activate the control, but because it is already on the system they can do this with out need administrative privileges.

If you are on XP SP2, you will need to push it out. Downloadable from the links above. If they are on SP3, I believe it was included.

 

[TechyMcSe2k]

The activex control is in the cab file that you have in the Windows Terminal Server web dir. msrdp.cab Extract the ocx file. Then copy this ocx file to the system32 dir on your targeted computers.

Run regsvr32 msrdp.ocx to register the active x control on the server.

You can bundle this in a computer startup script. You could also use VBScript or ECMAScript (JScript) to copy this file to all remote machines and then use WSH's Shell object to remotely register the file on the target
machines.