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Running a Remote Desktop session within another Remote Desktop session is not supported


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Summary

Running a Remote Desktop (Terminal Server) RDP session within another Remote Desktop RDP session is not supported on the operating systems listed in the Applies To section of this article. For instance, users connecting to a Remote Desktop Session Host server for their desktop environment and then connecting to another Remote Desktop server for Remote Apps is neither tested nor supported.

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More Information

This scenario has been neither tested nor is supported. When connecting in this fashion, certain Remote Desktop functionality may not work properly, or unexpected behaviour may occur.

Window 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 do not support running a Remote Desktop Connection session within another Remote Desktop Connection session.

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2754550 Running a Remote Desktop Connection session within another Remote Desktop Connection session is supported with Remote Desktop Protocol 8.0 for specific scenarios

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Article Info
Article ID : 2582684
Revision : 1
Created on : 1/7/2017
Published on : 9/5/2012
Exists online : False
Views : 327