RDS 2019 issues related with to much services

Question

Hello All,

I have installed new RDS server on latest 2019 standard server. This is standalone RDS server. Server is used by more than 100 people and has enough resources and licenses etc... Users can connect to one RDS web app published on the server without any problems. Everything looks fine till time when i want to check few things on the server.

I can't open services mmc, because i'm receiving error message: "Error 1783: The stub received bad data":

Same from powershell. Result of Get-Service is empty.

Solution is here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/system-management-components/error-1783...

Completely not acceptable for me, but i think above issue is correlated with: "Per-user services in Windows 10 and Windows Server":

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/application-management/per-user-services-in-windows

So if one user can create few services, how much services will be if on server will be more than 100.

I can't open also Remote Desktop Services Overview from server manager:

Next issue is related with monitoring system which can't get some data from this server.

Everything is coming back to normal if server is by fewer people, because when RDS session is disconnected then per user services also are removed. Then everything described above is working correctly.

So my question is what is the solution for this case, because i as administrator can't provide good quality of the RDS service, because i don't see many things described above. Probably is much more.

Answer 1

Actually i think i found the issue, the fix isn't that daunting

1) Go to the regedit on the RDP server

this is the location you are looking for

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services

in there find the services which there are a lot of suffixed with an underscore and loads of character

For example PimIndexMaintenanceSvc_1ajnfodj30

click on the parent service name and set the following entries

"Start" to 4 (This disables the service)
"UserServiceFlags" to 0 (This stops a new instance of the service from being created each time a user logs in)

Hope this helps!