USB over Network. Webcam, Printer, Scanner, Sound for Remote Desktop. Virtual Serial Port. Remote desktop USB redirection may seem pretty straightforward. A company's VDI software uses a network connection to transmit the USB device's function from the physical desktop to the virtual desktop. But administrators have a lot to keep track of, including what network workers use and which devices IT should support.
Hi,This is Akbar,I am testing the Server 2016 TP4, Build ID 14257 on my Virtual machine and Physical machine with Thin client.I have a USB to Serial converter from where i connected a Serial Keyboard and RDP the 2016 VM / Physical system. I have enabled the Remote FX on both thin client and host machine side as well.The USB to Serial device detected in remote system device manager but none of the keys from the Serial Keyboard works. If i plug the Serial Keyboard on my physical 2016 system (which i am testing with RDP as well) working fine but it is not working in RDPsession. Any help?The thin client i am using is with WES10 with RDP10 on it.RegardsB.AkbarB.Akbar.
I too have had problems using RemoteFX USB Redirection on a Windows 7 Client to a remote host on Azure running Windows 10, while the same machine configuration would successfully redirect USB to a Windows 8.1 Azure VM.To be clear I've not had issues with the USB redirection for common devices (Flash drives, Printers, etc) that are supported with the vanilla setup of Remote Desktop. This type of USB redirection, for example, allowing me to see a Flash drive that I plug in to my Windows 7 client is working perfectly for me as I can see it in Explorer in the Azure VM.A comparison of standard RDP redirection and RemoteFX redirection is detailed in this entry.My particular USB redirection problem relates to the classes of devices not handled by the basic RDP high-level redirection, and for that I've enabled RemoteFX USB redirection on previous releases of Windows.
When this is functioning correctly the computer icon appears in the Remote Desktop title bar allowing me to select which device should be redirected to the VM.Titlebar when RemoteFX USB Redirection is workingFollowing the instructions on numerous web resources for enabling RemoteFX USB redirection worked for me for earlier OS versions (i.e. Windows 8.1 on a Azure VM), but would not work for any Windows 10 VM I created. The titlebar stubbornly remained without the RemoteFX USB redirection feature.Titlebar when RemoteFX USB Redirection was not workingI finally stumbled across this which solved my problem.It seems there is one more step needed on a Windows 10 host compared to previous OS versions and that is:.Run gpedit.msc on the target VM (the target windows 10 Virtual Machine) to start the Group Policy Editor.
You now need to update the machine's policy usinggpupdate /force from the command line. Then reboot the machine for the change to actually take effect and enable the RemoteFX USB redirection option in your Remote Desktop Connection client.Once it's enabled, access the Local Resources tab, click More under Local devices and resources, and you'll see a new Other supports RemoteFX USB devices setting. You can use this setting to map through many types of USB hardware that you couldn't with vanilla RDP USB redirection.