Event ID 1026 — Connection Request Management

Applies To: Windows Server 2008 R2

Connection requests in RD Connection Broker include user connection requests and redirection connection requests.

Event Details

Product: Windows Operating System
ID: 1026
Source: Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-SessionBroker
Version: 6.1
Symbolic Name: EVENT_FAIL_UPDATE_PASSWORD
Message: RD Connection Broker failed to update password of %1 farm account.
Error code: %2.

Resolve

Create RD Session Host Kerberos Farm Identity

To resolve this issue, you must create an RD Session Host Kerberos Farm Identity by using Windows PowerShell.

To perform this procedure, you must have membership in the local Administrators group, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority.

To create an RD Session Host Kerberos Farm Identity:

  1. On the RD Connection Broker server, open Windows PowerShell Modules. To open Windows PowerShell Modules, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Windows PowerShell Modules.
  2. Type cd RDS:\ and then press ENTER.
  3. Type cd RDSFarms and then press ENTER.
  4. Type cd farmname where farmname is the name of the Remote Desktop Session Host server farm on which you want to enable a Kerberos identity.
  5. Type cd KerbIdentity and then press ENTER.
  6. Type Set-Item EnableKerbIdentity 1 -AccountName Username* *where Username is the name of the user account to use for the RD Session Host server farm.
  7. Press ENTER.

Verify

To verify that the RD Connection Broker server is managing connection requests successfully, examine Event Viewer logs and search for the following event message. This event message indicates that the RD Connection Broker server is managing connection requests successfully.

To perform this procedure, you do not need to have membership in the local Administrators group. Therefore, as a security best practice, consider performing this task as a user without administrative credentials.

To verify that the RD Connection Broker server is successfully managing connection requests:

  1. On the RD Connection Broker server, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Event Viewer.
  2. In the Event Viewer console tree, navigate to Application and Services Logs\Microsoft\Windows\TerminalServices-SessionBroker, and then search for the following events:
    • Event ID 801, Source TerminalServices-SessionBroker: This event indicates that the RD Connection Broker successfully managed a connection request.

Connection Request Management

Remote Desktop Services