Information Technology Services

Problems with Remote Desktop

Outage category: Applications

Location: All Campuses

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

ITS is receiving a number of calls from customers reporting problems with Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

The RPD protocol on some desktop systems experienced a failure and failed into the not allowed state.

Resolution

Desktop Support staff added instructions to the ITS Knowledge Base and created a script which was added to the ITS Application store to enable customers to self fix their machines.

Prevention

There has been no determination of what caused the failure, so no preventions steps have been created.