Copy / paste file through RDS without drive redirection

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Copy / paste file through RDS without drive redirection

Simon Men 6

Hi,
For security purpose, we disabled drive redirection on our RDS farm. It disabled the possiblity to copy / paste from client computer to RDS session. Is there any possibility to allow the file copy / paste WITHOUT drive redirection ? There's a difference in redirecting full drive computer + USB + anything else and just copying some files.
I don't know if i'm clear, and i'm sorry for my bad english.

Carlo Patargo 1 Reputation point

2022-11-28T20:46:07.403+00:00

@Simon Men , We have the exact same problem. Have you find a way to solve this.
MENARD Simon 1 Reputation point

2022-11-29T11:00:15.393+00:00

Hi, no we didn't find any. Our workaround is to configure OneDrive on clients computer and to set a shortcut to their OneDrive on their RDS sessions. It adds a manipulation but at least it's working like that.
If you find any solutions pls let me know. I'll do the same.
Broker : Windows Server 2012 R2
RDS host : Windows Server 2016
Carlo Patargo 1 Reputation point

2022-11-29T13:50:24.9+00:00

Thank you. I sure will.

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Carlo Patargo 1 Reputation point

2022-11-28T20:46:07.403+00:00

@Simon Men , We have the exact same problem. Have you find a way to solve this.
MENARD Simon 1 Reputation point

2022-11-29T11:00:15.393+00:00

Hi, no we didn't find any. Our workaround is to configure OneDrive on clients computer and to set a shortcut to their OneDrive on their RDS sessions. It adds a manipulation but at least it's working like that.
If you find any solutions pls let me know. I'll do the same.
Broker : Windows Server 2012 R2
RDS host : Windows Server 2016
Carlo Patargo 1 Reputation point

2022-11-29T13:50:24.9+00:00

Thank you. I sure will.

Answer 1

Philippe Levesque 5,836

Hi

Make sure the clipboard option is set, this is the option that could block the copy/paste.

If it's set, make sure it's set on the client computer too, as it can be disabled on the client side too.

MENARD Simon 1 Reputation point

2022-11-29T10:56:06.463+00:00

Hi,
That's clearly not working. This is how all our clients are configured, and all our collections too.

Answer 2

Limitless Technology 39,926

Hello SimonMen,

Disabling the Drive Redirection would remove the possibility to drag and drop, or copy and paste to the drive from the RDS Session, but if you enable the Clipboard redirection, you can copy the file in the RDS Session then paste in the drive in the local session.

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MENARD Simon 1 Reputation point

2022-10-14T13:39:31.47+00:00

There are 2 different ways to enable drive redirection. Through GPO and through the session collection wizard. For both, file transfert from Local computer to rds session or from rds session to local computer needs the drive redirection. Without drive redirection (wich is very dangerous), we just can't drag and drop file from one to another. The question is, isn't there a way to do it without this drive redirection that we don't want for security purpose ? We don't want the full C and D and USB keys from every computers to be mounted on our rds farm. We should be able to transfert files into rds session from local computer without mounting every folder on the computer, aren't we ? And the clipboard redirection only permits to copy paste text from one to another, it doesn't permit the file copy paste. Tried on Windows Server 2012 R2. Thanks for your time
MENARD Simon 1 Reputation point

2022-11-29T10:55:31.76+00:00

Hi,
That's clearly not working. This is how all our clients are configured, and all our collections too.

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