"Remote Desktop Users" Group missing in WIN8

Question

I have a Windows 8 workstation that was upgraded to Windows 8 PRO. This workstation is a domain member of SBS 2011 server. After the upgrade to PRO and a number of "rollup" updates I am still not able to assign non-admin users to allow them to remote into the Windows 8 machine. The "Select Users" button is greyed out. I know there was a problem with the PRO upgrade and Microsoft has claimed to have resolved this with updates. I have looked at the user groups after applying the updates and the only one that is missing is the Remote Desktop Users group. The other groups are all there. Below is an export of my group listing from the WIN 8 workstation. The strange thing is if I try to add the Remote Desktop Users group to the list on the workstation I get a message stating

"The following error occurred while attempting to create the Remote Desktop Users group on computer WORKSTATION NAME: The specified local group already exists."

It seems the policy is there but just not visible to the operating system interface. Is there a registry setting or something else that is keeping the group from being visible and used in WIN8. I can remote in with the admin account but just can't add non admin users to allow remote desktop connections.

Thanks

Jeff

Name               Description

Access Control Assistance Operators Members of this group can remotely query authorization attributes and permissions for resources on this computer.

Administrators Administrators have complete and unrestricted access to the computer/domain

Backup Operators Backup Operators can override security restrictions for the sole purpose of backing up or restoring files

Cryptographic Operators Members are authorized to perform cryptographic operations.

Distributed COM Users Members are allowed to launch, activate and use Distributed COM objects on this machine.

Event Log Readers Members of this group can read event logs from local machine

Guests Guests have the same access as members of the Users group by default, except for the Guest account which is further restricted

Hyper-V Administrators Members of this group have complete and unrestricted access to all features of Hyper-V.

IIS_IUSRS Built-in group used by Internet Information Services.

Network Configuration Operators Members in this group can have some administrative privileges to manage configuration of networking features

Offer Remote Assistance Helpers Members in this group can offer Remote Assistance to the users of this computer.

Performance Log Users Members of this group may schedule logging of performance counters, enable trace providers, and collect event traces both locally and via remote access to this computer

Performance Monitor Users Members of this group can access performance counter data locally and remotely

Power Users Power Users are included for backwards compatibility and possess limited administrative powers

Remote Management Users Members of this group can access WMI resources over management protocols (such as WS-Management via the Windows Remote Management service). This applies only to WMI namespaces that grant access to the user.

Replicator Supports file replication in a domain

Users Users are prevented from making accidental or intentional system-wide changes and can run most applications

WinRMRemoteWMIUsers__ Members of this group can access WMI resources over management protocols (such as WS-Management via the Windows Remote Management service). This applies only to WMI namespaces that grant access to the user.

Answer 1

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