TS Ports on Server 2012 Standard

Question

I run windows 2012 standard on my server at home, I have a TeamSpeak 3 server as well as no-ip (DUC (Dynamic Update Client)) program running on it, I have two pc's running windows 10 pro on the network as well as 3 phones and 2 smart watches, (2 Android, 1 IOS, 1 Samsung watch and 1 apple watch).

I recently had a virus on my server and had to reinstall my entire server.

What I did notice, when I go to the devices and printers there is 2 printers with (redirected) installed, I am unable to remove them and there is also a few "ports" labeled "TS Port" when going into the settings on these "Printers" as far as I know these "TS Ports" are "Terminal Server Ports'', it also seems that these port names are one of the desktops running on my network.

The server seems to ''lose connection to the network'' from time to time and I have to login to the server itself and restart it, not quite sure what could cause it. It is a HP ProLiant Micro Server (2nd generation).

I am running ESET Antivirus on the 2 desktops and Avira Antivirus on the server.

Any ideas what could cause the loss of connection and what these ''TS Ports'' are?

Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

Hi,
1.Are you using mstsc to remote to the server? If yes, kindly check the redirection feature of printers and ports with remote desktop connection:

2.From the server side, please also try to disable the GPO that related to the redirected ports and devices:
Computer Configuration –> Administrative Templates –> Windows Components –> Remote Desktop Services –> Remote Desktop Session Host -> Printer Redirection –> Do not allow client printer redirection

Computer Configuration –> Administrative Templates –> Windows Components –> Remote Desktop Services –> Remote Desktop Session Host -> Device and Resource Redirection –> Do not allow COM port redirection

3.what could cause the loss of connection
Please verify if you have stable network connection and also check if anything related has been recorded in event logs:

Step 1: Press Windows+R to open the Run dialog, enter eventvwr (or eventvwr.msc) and hit OK.

Step 2: Navigate to Event Viewer\ Applications and Services Logs\ Microsoft\ Windows\ TerminalServices-*
TerminalServices-RemoteConnectionManager and TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager logs to view information about connections.

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Hope this helps and please help to accept as Answer if the response is useful.

Thanks,
Jenny

Answer 2

Thank you so much @Jenny Yan-MSFT this was the cause of it, loss of connection stopped after replacing the harddrive, I realized I was losing connection and switched to the server screen and saw the BSOD, after replacing the harddrive the loss of connections stopped.