Audio redirection gpo not applying
Hi everyone, I wonder if anyone else has seen this issue and could tell me what they think might be going on. For many years I have had a group policy which enables audio redirection in remote desktop sessions applied to all the computers in my domain. The last couple of years approximately 50% of the computers are not enabling audio redirection in remote desktop sessions. The gpo I created is configured under computer configuration, policies, administrative templates, windows components, remote desktop services, remote desktop session host, device and resource redirection, allow audio and video playback redirection. This is enabled and applied to all computers. When the local machines are not receiving this properly, I have found the problem. I run services.ms sea and scroll down to the remote desktop services user mode port redirector. This service shows up as disabled. I can set it to automatic, then start it. Rebooting the computer the service remains enabled. Problem solved. Knowing how to resolve this is good, but I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas as to why the group policy is not taking care of this. Thanks
Troy: Two things to look at here. 1. Have you tried running the Group Policy Results wizard against one of the machines that should be getting the policy and verified the policy is in fact there and isn't showing as blocked by anything? 2. In that same policy, set the Remote Desktop Services User Mode Port Redirrector service to enabled, that way its forced. I admit though, I've never had to mess with that service when working on remote systems, its been handled automatically so if enabling that service is fixing things, I'd wonder how that service is being disabled in the first place. One other thing, you have verified the Windows Audio service is running and isn't being disabled somehow right? Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Troy Hergert Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2017 11:55 AM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Audio redirection gpo not applying Hi everyone, I wonder if anyone else has seen this issue and could tell me what they think might be going on. For many years I have had a group policy which enables audio redirection in remote desktop sessions applied to all the computers in my domain. The last couple of years approximately 50% of the computers are not enabling audio redirection in remote desktop sessions. The gpo I created is configured under computer configuration, policies, administrative templates, windows components, remote desktop services, remote desktop session host, device and resource redirection, allow audio and video playback redirection. This is enabled and applied to all computers. When the local machines are not receiving this properly, I have found the problem. I run services.ms sea and scroll down to the remote desktop services user mode port redirector. This service shows up as disabled. I can set it to automatic, then start it. Rebooting the computer the service remains enabled. Problem solved. Knowing how to resolve this is good, but I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas as to why the group policy is not taking care of this. Thanks _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.hodgsonfamily.org%2Flistinfo%2Fblind-sysadmins&data=02%7C01%7Cryshugar%40microsoft.com%7C078daf9c344942f2482208d5382c5aea%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636476685519208668&sdata=hAO2fwsp8%2BboZI5RVF25J29KsclfI3svYkk%2FuAPM4ag%3D&reserved=0
Troy: Two things to look at here. 1. Have you tried running the Group Policy Results wizard against one of the machines that should be getting the policy and verified the policy is in fact there and isn't showing as blocked by anything? 2. In that same policy, set the Remote Desktop Services User Mode Port Redirrector service to enabled, that way its forced. I admit though, I've never had to mess with that service when working on remote systems, its been handled automatically so if enabling that service is fixing things, I'd wonder how that service is being disabled in the first place. One other thing, you have verified the Windows Audio service is running and isn't being disabled somehow right? Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Troy Hergert Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2017 11:55 AM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Audio redirection gpo not applying Hi everyone, I wonder if anyone else has seen this issue and could tell me what they think might be going on. For many years I have had a group policy which enables audio redirection in remote desktop sessions applied to all the computers in my domain. The last couple of years approximately 50% of the computers are not enabling audio redirection in remote desktop sessions. The gpo I created is configured under computer configuration, policies, administrative templates, windows components, remote desktop services, remote desktop session host, device and resource redirection, allow audio and video playback redirection. This is enabled and applied to all computers. When the local machines are not receiving this properly, I have found the problem. I run services.ms sea and scroll down to the remote desktop services user mode port redirector. This service shows up as disabled. I can set it to automatic, then start it. Rebooting the computer the service remains enabled. Problem solved. Knowing how to resolve this is good, but I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas as to why the group policy is not taking care of this. Thanks _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.hodgsonfamily.org%2Flistinfo%2Fblind-sysadmins&data=02%7C01%7Cryshugar%40microsoft.com%7C078daf9c344942f2482208d5382c5aea%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636476685519208668&sdata=hAO2fwsp8%2BboZI5RVF25J29KsclfI3svYkk%2FuAPM4ag%3D&reserved=0
Thanks Ryan, I did a gpo result and found that my client audio redirection policy produced a sysvol version mismatch alert. But yet the same policy shows up later in the resulting group policies. Apparently there's a hotfix for this sysvol mismatch error which I will need to look into. As far as the local machine Porte Redirrector Service, this specific service does not seem to have a parameter in 2012 gpo administrative templates. The gpo has a policy called enabled video and audio redirection. The local machine services is named differently as remote desktop user mode port redirector. The computer in question is a windows seven machine. I think I'll check a windows 10 machine to see if there's a difference in the results. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Shugart via Blind-sysadmins Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2017 3:01 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Cc: Ryan Shugart Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Audio redirection gpo not applying Troy: Two things to look at here. 1. Have you tried running the Group Policy Results wizard against one of the machines that should be getting the policy and verified the policy is in fact there and isn't showing as blocked by anything? 2. In that same policy, set the Remote Desktop Services User Mode Port Redirrector service to enabled, that way its forced. I admit though, I've never had to mess with that service when working on remote systems, its been handled automatically so if enabling that service is fixing things, I'd wonder how that service is being disabled in the first place. One other thing, you have verified the Windows Audio service is running and isn't being disabled somehow right? Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Troy Hergert Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2017 11:55 AM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Audio redirection gpo not applying Hi everyone, I wonder if anyone else has seen this issue and could tell me what they think might be going on. For many years I have had a group policy which enables audio redirection in remote desktop sessions applied to all the computers in my domain. The last couple of years approximately 50% of the computers are not enabling audio redirection in remote desktop sessions. The gpo I created is configured under computer configuration, policies, administrative templates, windows components, remote desktop services, remote desktop session host, device and resource redirection, allow audio and video playback redirection. This is enabled and applied to all computers. When the local machines are not receiving this properly, I have found the problem. I run services.ms sea and scroll down to the remote desktop services user mode port redirector. This service shows up as disabled. I can set it to automatic, then start it. Rebooting the computer the service remains enabled. Problem solved. Knowing how to resolve this is good, but I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas as to why the group policy is not taking care of this. Thanks _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.hodgsonfamily.org%2Flistinfo%2Fblind-sysadmins&data=02%7C01%7Cryshugar%40microsoft.com%7C078daf9c344942f2482208d5382c5aea%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636476685519208668&sdata=hAO2fwsp8%2BboZI5RVF25J29KsclfI3svYkk%2FuAPM4ag%3D&reserved=0 _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
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