Additional steps before using AADS Terminal Server

Additional steps before using AADS Terminal Server

Additional steps before using AADS Terminal Server

After the installation of the AADS Terminal Server software, and after the reboot of the system, you need to perform a couple of steps in order to use the AADS Terminal Server:

Create users that can login using a Remote Desktop Session. If your Windows system has only one user, you will hardly use the benefits of the AADS Terminal Server product.
Make sure that all users have a password. It is not possible to have a Remote Desktop Session with an user ID that has no password. This is simply to unsafe.
Make sure that all users are member of the group "Remote desktop users". If an user is not a member of the group "Remote desktop users", this user will not be allowed to have a Remote Desktop Session. You can also use our Maintenance Program to give any verified user access to the AADS Terminal Server. A verified user is an user who has entered his username and password.
Open the Windows Firewall for Remote Desktop Sessions. The default RDP is TCP port 3389.

Important: Sometimes you might turn off the Windows Firewall because you are testing a system and while doing such you are not "interested" in the protection as offered by the Windows Firewall. It does happen that the firewall is turned on again, without informing you. An example of this behaviour is joining or un-joining a Windows system from a domain. After the (un)join, the Windows Firewall is turned on again.

Please visit our website, specific the FAQ Support-pages. You will find detailed examples and howto's between our FAQ's which describes how you can perform these steps.

Windows 10 and newer, Window Server 2016 and newer

AADServer can create and maintain Windows Firewall rules.
This option is available for Windows 10 and newer, and Windows Server 2016 and newer.

In case the option for Windows Firewall is selected, AADS creates and maintains the following Firewall rules:

In case the option for Windows Firewall is selected, it is not required for the Administrator to manually enter rules in the Windows Firewall for opening ports like port 3389.