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Enabling RDMS UI Tracing RDS 2012 for troubleshooting

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How to enable RDMS UI tracing in Remote Desktop Services 2012 with a registry change, so management console failures can be diagnosed from the logs.

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Enabling RDMS UI Tracing RDS 2012 for troubleshooting

Open regedit and create the following:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\RDMS

Create the following two registry entries under the registry key:◦Entry: EnableDeploymentUILog Data type: REG_DWORD Value: 1

Entry: EnableUILog Data type: REG_DWORD Value: 1

Enabling RDMS UI Tracing RDS 2012 for troubleshooting

Create HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\RDMS

Enabling RDMS UI Tracing RDS 2012 for troubleshooting (screenshot 2)

Create the following Entries:

  • EnableDeploymentUILog Data type: REG_DWORD Value: 1
  • EnableUILog Data type: REG_DWORD Value: 1

Enabling RDMS UI Tracing RDS 2012 for troubleshooting (screenshot 3)

Enable analytic and debug logs

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View RDMS-UI Logs

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Enable Debug Log

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To collect the log files:

To troubleshoot issues during RDS installation and deployment, collect the following RDMS UI log files on the RD Connection Broker server:•RDMSDeploymentUI.txt

This file is located in the %windir%\Logs folder. •RDMSUI-trace.log

This file is located in the %temp% folder. Usually, the path of the %temp% folder is as follows: C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Temp

For more information:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2747656?wa=wsignin1.0