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Remote Desktop Canary v2.3 Now Available!

September 30, 2020 By admin Leave a Comment

Greetings friends and current RDPSoft customers!  We’ve just released Version 2.3 of Remote Desktop Canary, our synthetic RDP and WVD monitoring and alerting workhorse.  This new version offers:

  • WVD support.  Whether you’re still using WVD classic (e.g. Fall 2019 Mode), or you’ve migrated over to WVD in ARM mode (e.g. the Spring 2020 Update), Remote Desktop Canary now supports WVD.
  • An enhanced workflow cloning wizard.  Now, if you want to test each of your session hosts or WVD hosts “all the way to the desktop” using OCR event detection, our new wizard duplicates your test settings across all of your hosts in one easy step.
  • We’ve improved our OCR alerting engine, so if specific text you are screening for is not seen within a certain number of seconds, Canary’s email alert will include all of the screenshots during the login sequence.  As a result, you will immediately see if the login attempt has stalled while loading user profiles/FSLogix, encountered a black screen, or encountered another issue.

We’re also excited to announce that you can now purchase Remote Desktop Canary as part of our brand new Complete Monitoring and Management Bundle for RDS and WVD!  Please read on for more details.

In this RDPSoft E-Newsletter:

Remote Desktop Canary Now Supports WVD

New Workflow Cloning Options

New Login Sequence Screenshot Playback With OCR Alerts

The Complete Monitoring and Management Bundle for RDS and WVD

Version 2.3 Upgrade, Purchase, and Demo Links

Windows Virtual Desktop Support in Remote Desktop Canary

Set up comprehensive synthetic Windows Virtual Desktop login tests in a matter of minutes with Remote Desktop Canary

Some organizations are starting to look towards migrating to Windows Virtual Desktop in Microsoft Azure as their end user computing platform. As one of the Microsoft’s original WVD partners, RDPSoft is committed to supporting WVD throughout our product line. Most recently, we have now added support for WVD within Remote Desktop Canary.

Whether or not you are still running Windows Virtual Desktop in Fall 2019 (Classic) mode, or have migrated to the new ARM-based WVD model (Spring Update), Remote Desktop Canary supports both versions.

Since WVD now takes care of infrastructure components for you (e.g. brokering sessions on to hosts, providing a gateway that routes incoming connections into your hostpools in Azure, etc), Remote Desktop Canary’s value rests in testing each of your individual WVD hosts to make sure they are responding properly and can serve up a desktop quickly. Remember, issues with user profiles, FSLogix, and other components can turn session hosts sluggish, resulting in slow login times, and these sorts of issues cannot necessarily be deduced by WVD diagnostics information alone.

By building a “direct to server” workflow test against one of your WVD hosts, and then using our new cloning wizard (see below) to replicate that test across all of your different hosts, you can quickly set up an entire testing regime to keep eyes on each host’s responsiveness.

Moreover, with Remote Desktop Canary’s scriptable command line interface, you can schedule routine early morning “sanity checks” to make sure your WVD hosts are now up and online, especially if you have already established scaling automation to shutdown hosts and spin them back up each day as your users start to log back in.

Workflow Cloning Improvements

In initial versions of Remote Desktop Canary, cloning was done one workflow at a time. However, many of our users expressed interest in doing scheduled or routine RDP login testing of ALL of their RDS session hosts and/or WVD hosts individually. In order to make this easy, we have expanded our cloning feature so that you can define a synthetic login test for a single RDS or WVD session host, but then rapidly duplicate that test across many different servers from your Active Directory or WVD hosts in your Azure resource group.

Quickly clone an existing “single host” RDP synthetic login test to many different hosts in your domain or WVD tenant

To perform this type of cloning operation, simply:

  • Define a workflow synthetic RDP login test against one of your RDS servers or WVD hosts.
  • Test it to make sure it works exactly the way you want it to.
  • Select the workflow, and press the “Clone” button.
  • Use the wizard to select additional terminal servers or WVD hosts from your Active Directory or Azure Resource Group.

Remote Desktop Canary will then replicate your testing settings against all of the selected hosts, creating a new workflow testing entry for each host. That’s all there is to it!

If Canary Cannot Login and Access a Full Remote Desktop Quickly, You’ll Now See What Happened Via a Full Login Sequence Playback

Since the release of Remote Desktop Canary version 2.0, more and more of our users have started using OCR event detection to be notified if it takes too long for a user’s desktop to appear in a Remote Desktop session.

In previous versions of Canary, if specific OCR text was not detected within a certain time period, an email alert would be logged stating this fact. Now, in Version 2.3, we have expanded these email alerts to include all of the periodic screenshots Remote Desktop Canary captured during the login sequence.

Remote Desktop Canary will now show you exactly what the login sequence looked like when a desktop could not be loaded in a timely manner. Was it a black screen? Or a roaming profile/FSLogix problem?

Thanks to this login sequence playback with screenshots, a support desk worker or admin can immediately see the likely cause of the delay when loading a desktop, such as roaming profile problems, FSLogix initialization issues, or the dreaded black screen during login.

The Complete Monitoring and Management Bundle for RDS and WVD

Complete Monitoring and Management Bundle for RDS and WVD

At RDPSoft, we’re constantly seeking ways to deliver more features and more value to our clients, at an unbelievable price point. In furtherance of that goal, we have now released the Complete Monitoring and Management Bundle for RDS and WVD. Starting at only $16.99 per server per month or $185.99 per server per year – with a 3 server purchase minimum and volume discounts available – you gain access to all three of our products, including Remote Desktop Canary!

Even better, if you’ve deployed or are getting ready to deploy WVD, we have a special promotion for you on this Complete Bundle, but act fast, as it goes away on December 31st, 2020.

Please contact our sales department for a quote if you’re an existing customer who would like to upgrade to this new offer, OR if you use our free Remote Desktop Commander Lite tool and would now like to obtain full monitoring and management capabilities for your RDS or WVD deployment. Just mention you’re interested in our new “Complete Bundle” when you fill out the form.

Remote Desktop Canary 2.3 Upgrade, Purchase, and Demo Links

If you are an existing Remote Desktop Canary subscription licensee and/or active maintenance agreement holder, click here to request upgrade instructions.

If you’d like to learn more about Remote Desktop Canary, including its feature set and how to start a subscription immediately, click here. 

If you’d like to learn more about our Complete Monitoring and Management Bundle For RDS and WVD, click here.

Request a web demo with an RDPSoft solutions expert to see all our solutions’ features in depth.

Filed Under: Cloud RDP Monitoring, RDP Login Time, Remote Desktop Performance, Software Releases, Synthetic RDP, Terminal Server Monitoring, Windows Virtual Desktop, WVD Login Time Tagged With: rdp login time, rdp logon time, rds farm health, remote desktop services uptime, terminal server login time, terminal server logon time, windows virtual desktop, WVD, wvd host health, wvd login time, wvd logon time, wvd uptime

Remote Desktop Commander v4.9 Now Available!

June 12, 2020 By admin Leave a Comment

Greetings friends and current Remote Desktop Commander customers!  We’ve just released Version 4.9 of the Remote Desktop Commander Suite and our Premium Management Features overlay.  This new version offers:

  • brand new reports that track things like RDP loss and retransmission rates, hourly load on servers, user reconnection attempts through a Remote Desktop Gateway, and much more;
  • an overhaul of our existing reporting, with a focus on better chart presentation and automatic chart data aggregation in larger environments;
  • the ability to delegate out management tasks and shadowing to Citrix help desk staff members, allowing them a much more streamlined shadowing experience that does not require the use of Citrix Director or Microsoft Remote Assistance;
  • numerous other product enhancements.

We’re also excited to announce that we’re expanding an existing promotion which you won’t want to miss, so please read on!

In this RDPSoft E-Newsletter:

New Reports Available in the Remote Desktop Commander Suite

Existing Report Improvements

Management Delegation Wizard and SuperShadow Now Available For Citrix Admins and Help Desk Staff

Other Product Enhancements in Version 4.9

Expanded Promotion – Buy Andy’s Book on RDS Security, and Get 1 Month of Remote Desktop Commander Suite AND Remote Desktop Canary Monitoring For Free

Version 4.9 Upgrade, Purchase, and Demo Links

New Reports in the Remote Desktop Commander Suite

RDP Protocol Loss and Retransmission Rates

Quickly spot the client users with the highest rates of UDP packet loss

Now that *almost all* of the Remote Desktop Services deployments running Server 2008 R2 have been retired, it remains important to keep an eye on aspects of how the modern Remote Desktop Protocol is functioning in your Server 2012, 2016, and 2019 environments. A key part of that is detecting packet loss and retransmission rates over the UDP channel used by RDS. Version 4.9 of the Remote Desktop Commander Suite now offers two new reports (a detailed variant and a summary variant) that quickly show you which users are suffering the highest rates of packet loss and retransmission. Coupled with other network quality reports like latency, you can quickly spot clients with less reliable connections.

Performance – Hourly Load By Server

Even without our agent installed, you can get daily reports showing how CPU, memory usage, and session counts increased and decreased during certain hours of the day.

Long time users of our Remote Desktop Commander Suite are well familiar with our Historical and Performance Across the Load dashboard. Now this same data is available in report form, either on-demand when working inside this dashboard, or as a report that can be scheduled on a recurring basis. For organizations running RDS, Citrix, and WVD deployments in a public cloud like Azure or AWS, having this information is critical, as it makes sure you’re not wasting your compute dollar as server load waxes and wanes throughout different days of the week.

Remote Desktop Gateway Reconnection Attempts

Similar to its sister report, Session Reconnect Attempts, the new Gateway Reconnect Attempts highlights users that have reconnected through a Remote Desktop Gateway more than 2 times in any hour. This may be indicative of connection issues on their part or, if many users are reconnecting frequently in the same hour, it may be highlighting a load issue on the Gateway or a general misconfiguration in the broader RDS deployment.

Existing Report Improvements

During the Version 4.9 development cycle, we spent a great deal of effort cleaning up the 100 reports in the Remote Desktop Commander Suite, specifically reports that utilize charts.

In previous versions of the Remote Desktop Commander Suite, certain charts could be become unreadable if the volume of data (e.g. the number of user accounts) was too large. While this was easily remedied by pairing the reports with filters that restricted data by computer name, Active Directory group, or user account, we have now added automatic “Top X” and “Bottom X” aggregation to some of the reports. If you have a larger environment with many different users, the charts will automatically show you the outliers (e.g. the Top 15 users with the highest average RDP latency for instance). For example:

“Top X” style aggregation now allows you to spot outliers and makes reports cleaner in larger environments. Here you can see the users with the highest and lowest productivity.

All of this aggregation is automatic so, after you upgrade to Version 4.9, you’ll start seeing it automatically in most of the reports that you typically run on a scheduled basis.

Delegation of Management AND SuperShadow Functionality Now Supported For Citrix Deployments

Our Management Delegation Wizard and SuperShadow features for RDS and Windows Virtual Desktop have been such a hit, and we now support those features in Citrix environments as well. At only $99.99 per named admin, help desk, or manager user per year, it’s quite the bargain!

We’ve heard more recently from many Citrix admins that attempting to delegate out specific management tasks like logging off users, disconnecting users, and shadowing users to help desk and other non-admin staff is painful at best. In some cases, being able to assign that level of granularity via Custom Roles in Citrix Studio is unavailable unless you are an Enterprise customer.

Then, there are issues with shadowing in Citrix Director itself. Currently, shadowing in Director leverages Remote Assistance, which must be installed and configured correctly on the administrator’s system to work correctly. It also informs the target Citrix user of the shadowing attempt. In some industries, the ability to monitor one or more worker sessions for spot auditing and compliance without user notification is required.

Fortunately, our Premium Management Features overlay now solves this big gap for all Citrix deployments, regardless of licensing level. Specific groups of help desk users can quickly be delegated specific management tasks, without being made admins on the host servers. Also, shadowing can be configured with or without consent required. More importantly – it just works. SuperShadow launches and can monitor and manage multiple user sessions at once from different Citrix hosts, whether they are desktop or app sessions, and whether or not the client is using multiple monitors. It all works natively, and is not dependent on Remote Assistance at all.

In three quick steps, you can unify and delegate Citrix management permissions to your help desk staff and other non-admin managers
Select (check) the Citrix sessions from the Virtual Apps and Desktops host servers, and then shadowing is just another mouse click away. No dependencies on Remote Assistance required.

Other Product Enhancements

Here are two other product enhancements in Version 4.9:

  • Loading speed has been improved in the Performance and Load Across the Farm Dashboard, especially for larger environments.
  • A “Test Email” button has been added in the Remote Desktop Commander Configuration tool, to quickly verify whether or not scheduled reports can relay properly.
  • We now support the usage of a Service Principal Name (SPN) to authenticate against and manage WVD deployments.

Expanded Promotion – Buy Andy’s RDS Security Book and Get A Month of Monitoring For Free!

Andy’s new RDPwned book on Securing Remote Desktop Services was a hit at launch, with lots of readers sharing their positive feedback with him. When the book launched, we started a promotion whereby any person who purchased the book could pick up a single server’s worth of RDS monitoring via the Remote Desktop Commander Suite for a full month. Now, we’re pleased to extend this promotion further.

If you purchase RDPwned between now and July 31st, 2020, we’ll give you a one month, single server monitoring license of the Remote Desktop Commander Suite, AND a single workflow license of Remote Desktop Canary, so you can get alerted if any problems whatsoever start to develop in one of your RDS collections. That’s a $70 USD value for only $9.99!!

All you need to do to claim your 1 server, 1 month Remote Desktop Commander Suite license and your 1 workflow, 1 month Remote Desktop Canary License is to email inquiries [at] rdpsoft [dot] com with a screenshot of your Amazon Kindle purchase receipt. We’ll take care of the rest!

Remote Desktop Commander 4.9 Upgrade, Purchase, and Demo Links

If you are an existing Remote Desktop Commander SUITE subscription licensee and/or active maintenance agreement holder, click here to request upgrade instructions.

If you are an existing Remote Desktop Commander Lite or Premium Management Features customer, proceed to the Remote Desktop Commander Lite download page to download Version 4.9 of the client.  Then install it over your previous version.

If you’d like to learn more about the Remote Desktop Commander Suite, including its feature set and how to start a subscription for only $9.99 per server per month, click here.

Request a web demo with an RDPSoft solutions expert to see all our solutions’ features in depth.

Filed Under: citrix edgesight, Citrix Edgesight Replacement, RDP Loss Rate, RDP Security, RDP Transmission Rate, Software Releases, Windows Virtual Desktop, XenApp Monitoring, XenApp Reporting Tagged With: citrix shadowing, rdp loss rate, rdp retransmission rate, remote desktop monitoring, remote desktop reporting, shadow citrix, shadow citrix help desk, shadow citrix no consent, shadow citrix without admin, user activity monitoring

Remote Desktop Canary v2.0 Now Available!

March 4, 2020 By admin Leave a Comment

Greetings friends and current customers!  We’ve just released Version 2.0 of Remote Desktop Canary.  This new version offers:

  • OCR scanning of RDP login sequence screenshots, so you can be alerted to error conditions after login and/or to slow application startup times;
  • the ability to do a RDP connectivity test on a group of servers in Active Directory, or a group of session hosts participating in an RDS collection;
  • the ability to bypass login banners on your servers with synthetic input, so you can profile application load times after the login sequence;
  • a new helper program called Remote Desktop Canary Kickstarter, that will babysit your Remote Desktop Canary testing session, and automatically restart Remote Desktop Canary in a user session on a VM if the server is rebooted or the testing module is stopped for any reason;
  • the ability to suspend workflow testing momentarily when servers are down for patching or maintenance;
  • and much more!

We’re also excited to announce the imminent release of our CEO Andy Milford’s new book on Remote Desktop Security!  Read on for a signup link below.

In this RDPSoft E-Newsletter:

New Features Available in Remote Desktop Canary v2.0

Andy Milford’s Brand New Book On RDP Security Is Almost Here

Version 2.0 Upgrade, Purchase, and Demo Links

New Features Now Available in Remote Desktop Canary v2.0:

 

Use OCR Event Detection To Alert To Error Conditions And Slow Application Load Times During Synthetic RDS Logins

Based on your wonderful feedback, we have engineered an OCR event detection engine, that scans screenshots during and after the RDP login sequence. This new engine allows you to define and receive alerts when certain error messages appear on screen, and define and receive alerts if it takes too long for a program to start in a RDP session (e.g. due to profile problems, for instance).

Receive OCR Based Alerts Related To On Screen Errors and Application Startup Times
Version 2.0 of Remote Desktop Canary offers a full OCR engine that can alert based on on-screen error conditions OR slow application startup times.

RDP Connectivity Testing On Multiple Computers at Once

Version 2.0 of Remote Desktop Canary now offers a “multi-server testing workflow,” whereby it will quickly check RDP responsiveness on a group of servers in Active Directory, or the servers participating in a RDS collection.

Test RDP Connectivity on Multiple Servers At Once
Remote Desktop Canary can perform a routine RDP connectivity check on multiple servers at once.

Bypass Windows Server Login Notification Banners

If your organization uses login notification banners to provide an acceptable use policy (AUP) or warning that users must acknowledge before signing on, Remote Desktop Canary can now bypass this easily with synthetic input. As a result, you can now test conditions beyond the login screen using Canary’s new OCR event detection engine.

Bypass Login Notification Banners
Version 2.0 can bypass login notification banners with synthetic input, allowing application and desktop startup times to be profiled with OCR-based alerting.

Keep Remote Desktop Canary Up And Running 24/7 With the New Remote Desktop Canary Kickstarter Applet

Remote Desktop Canary Kickstarter is a companion utility that ships with Remote Desktop Canary v2.0. It “babysits” the actively running Remote Desktop Canary tests – by itself running on a different VM from the VM running Remote Desktop Canary.

As a result, it is able to make sure that Remote Desktop Canary tests stay running at all times, and function properly, even in scenarios like:

1.) When the Remote Desktop Canary system is rebooted, such as for routine maintenance or patch installation

2.) If the Remote Desktop Canary Logon Testing Module stops running for any reason

3.) When an active Remote Desktop connection to the Remote Desktop Canary system is interrupted, resulting in a disconnected session that would prevent synthetic input from properly bypassing login banners

Remote Desktop Canary Kickstarter babysits the user session running Remote Desktop Canary
The Remote Desktop Canary Kickstarter applet keeps a watchful eye on the VM running your Remote Desktop Canary workflows.

Toggle Workflows In and Out of Maintenance Mode

While Remote Desktop Canary is running continuous synthetic RDS login tests, you can now toggle specific workflows in and out of maintenance mode with a single mouse click. When placed in maintenance mode, Remote Desktop Canary will suspend testing against that RDS collection or group of servers. This prevents alerts from being generated when you take server(s) offline for patching or other maintenance.

Right mouse click on any workflow to take it in or out of maintenance mode.

Don’t Let Your Remote Desktop Services Environment Get Pwned! Sign Up To Be Notified When Andy Milford’s New Book On Remote Desktop Security Is Released.

Seldom does a week go by these days without a breaking news report on a ransomware attack, the compromise of a large customer database, or theft of trade secrets. What’s the common attack vector that is often used to break into these organizations’ computers? RDP!

Our CEO Andy Milford has been hard at work for over a year, researching and writing a comprehensive book on how to secure your Remote Desktop Services environments. He shows you step-by-step how hackers and Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors locate your RDP servers and RDS deployments, how they break in, what they do when they break in, and how to defend against their techniques.

His book is now in editing, and its release is imminent. Sign up today to be notified as soon as it is available.

Remote Desktop Canary v2.0 Upgrade, Purchase, and Demo Links

If you are an existing Remote Desktop Canary subscription licensee, and want to request upgrade instructions for Version 2, please click here.

If you want to learn more about Remote Desktop Canary, including all of its features and how it is priced, please click here.

To request a free 14-day trial of Remote Desktop Canary in your environment, click here.

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Bye Bye TSAdmin – Server 2008 Extended Support Ends on January 14, 2020!

October 15, 2019 By admin Leave a Comment

You know what’s frightening this Halloween season?
Trying to manage Remote Desktop Services on Server 2012, 2016, 2019 with only Server Manager!!!

The horror… The pain… The suffering… The masochism… *ahem*

Extended Support ends for RDS on Windows Server 2008 in 90 days, on January 14th, 2020.

Gone forever is TSAdmin, TSConfig and those other Server 2008 tools you’ve come to rely on for Terminal Server Management.

Solve all of those RDS Management Woes with Remote Desktop Commander Lite + Premium Management Features.

For only $99.99 $89.99 per named admin/support desk tech per year, get:

  • Comprehensive, scalable RDS and WVD management – no matter the size of your RDS or WVD farm;
  • Shadowing/remote assistance that works properly, even on multi-monitor desktop and RemoteApp sessions;
  • Delegate specific RDS management tasks to support techs –without making them admins on your terminal servers or brokers!

Click here to start an annual subscription of Remote Desktop Commander Lite + Premium Management Features, and use the BYEBYE2008 code at checkout to receive $10.00 off each named user license purchased.  But act soon, before this special offer expires, just like your extended support for Windows Server 2008.

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User Session Shadowing in Remote Desktop Commander v4.7+

June 12, 2019 By admin Leave a Comment

Until the release of our Remote Desktop Commander v4.7, one of the continuous laments that we used to hear from our customer base for years centered on the user session shadowing in Remote Desktop Services.  This is a shame, because the internal architecture for shadowing from Windows Server 2012 R2 onwards is pretty amazing!  Using MSTSC to shadow proved however less than smooth.  The litany of complaints has always included problems like:

  • lack of proper shadowing support (zoom out) for multiple monitor sessions;
  • dreaded permissions errors;
  • the unfortunate requirement for help desk users to be administrators (!) on the terminal servers they want to shadow;
  • the inability for Windows 7 systems to initiate shadowing on Server 2012/2016/2019 systems and Windows 8 and 10 workstations.

There was also the small issue that there were no tools for shadowing/remote assistance inside Windows Virtual Desktop in Azure.

By the way: Check out this twisted history of shadowing RDP users.

In the resulting confusion, admins and IT staff have been paying an arm and a leg for remote assistance tools to bridge this gap for years. These tools require heavy install footprints, hundreds or even thousands of dollars per technician per year, and tedious invitation URLs, etc. are required to start helping users.

Which Reminds Us: Delegation of Administration Options for Remote Desktop Services Has Been Nonexistent For W a y  T o o  L o n g

The other need that we heard frequently from our customers: To have the ability to precisely delegate Remote Desktop Services management permissions to their help desk and front line support staff.  For a while, the only real option had been to give help desk staff admin rights on session hosts and connection brokers.  Not an ideal situation from a security, or a “whoops I just rebooted a terminal server with 30 user sessions running line of business apps” perspective.

We tried to resolve some of these issues with our RDSConfig utility, that allowed permissions reassignment for users and groups on session hosts.  However, in larger RDS collections, you need a way to apply those permissions to a huge swath of session hosts all at once – especially as new session hosts are brought online.  Also, to do their jobs, help desk staff need rights to query the Connection Broker to dynamically list RDS collections and the servers that are members of each, plus they should have the ability to read RDS-related performance counters on those session hosts, so they can troubleshoot things like network latency from the client to the server.

So, We Figured Out How To Make User Session Shadowing Much Better AND Created a Wizard To Let You Delegate RDS Management Tasks To Your Help Desk Staff

View and Monitor Multiple User Sessions At Once With the MiniView Dock
Bring a Shadowed Session Into Full View to Manage / Observe All Activity.
Shadow Multiple WVD Sessions At Once With the MiniView Dock

We call these tools in the Remote Desktop Commander Client Premium Management Features.  Want to shadow Server 2012+ systems from Windows 7?  No problem.  Want to monitor multiple user sessions at once in live view in one window?  We do that.  Do you have RDS users with multiple monitors that you haven’t been able to shadow before?  Again, we’ve got you covered.

Where To Go Next To Find Out More . . . 

Request a web demo with an RDPSoft solutions expert to see all our solutions’ features in depth.

Updated: November 2020.

Filed Under: Software Releases Tagged With: Delegating RDS Management, Live Monitor RDS Sessions, Managing Remote Desktop Services, Managing Windows Virtual Desktop, Monitoring Remote Desktop Services, Monitoring Windows Virtual Desktop, Monitoring WVD, MSTSC Shadow, Remote Desktop Commander Core, Remote Desktop Commander Suite, windows virtual desktop

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