Okay so I found a workaround for my particular issue. On the host machine, go to gpedit, then to comp config, admin, all settings, and find Use WDDM. Set that to disabled. Reboot.
If this fixes it for anyone, please let me know.
Remote Desktop Connections error after update to Win10 2004
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after updating Windows 10 to version 2004 i am no longer able to establish a Remote Desktop Connection.
actually i am able to establish a Remote Connection exactly once. But after ending the first remote session every following attempt to do the same gives me the following error message:
"Your Remote Desktop Service session has ended, possibly for one of the following reasons:
The administrator has ended the session.
An error occurred while the connection was being established.
A network problem occurred."
just before the error message appears i can see the log in screen of the remote computer, but this is were it end.
Only restarting the remote computer allows me to create another remote session. but restarting the machine after every remote sessions isn't feasible as others use resources on this computer too.
the suggested help links to a website explaining how to enable Remote Desktop access. which doesn't really help. Before the Windows update the service worked flawlessly. Any help how to fix this issue is highly appreciated.
thanks,
Seb
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2020-10-10T22:18:32+00:00 Unfortunately Windows 10 updates reset a lot of things back to defaults. It's a big pain and I am not sure why MS keep doing this. I am always hesitant to upgrade to these big releases due to this. I have to spend hours of my time going back through and removing bloatware they re-added and fixing settings they changed back to "MS knows best" settings.
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Anonymous
2020-10-10T22:19:47+00:00 Thanks Wayne. This seems to have worked for me. How this issue even got through QA is beyond me. It's also beyond me why an MVP was not able to answer this beyond a cookie cutter response. Thanks once again!
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Sumit 44,431 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2020-10-23T02:30:40+00:00 There are some improvements WRT RDP in the newest preview release 19042.678.
Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19042.608 (20H2) | Windows Insider Blog
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Anonymous
2020-11-06T01:28:42+00:00 Okay so I found a workaround for my particular issue. On the host machine, go to gpedit, then to comp config, admin, all settings, and find Use WDDM. Set that to disabled. Reboot.
If this fixes it for anyone, please let me know.
Yes the above solution works for me. thank you.