I have a Windows 2008R2 server running as a guest in Hyper-V configured as a Remote Desktop Server. I have several people who use the server both while they are in the office and also while out of the office and I want to enable RDP 8 in hopes that the newer protocol will be able to provide a better experience for them.
My client is a laptop running Windows 7 Pro with SP1. I have successfully connected to Windows Server 2012 using RDP8 from this client.
I am following the instructions from the MSDN RDS blog, but I have found identical instructions in several other places.
I have installed the necessary updates (KB2574819 and KB2592687) on both the server and my client, and I have confirmed that Remote Desktop Connection on both reports support for RDP8.
I installed the Windows Server 2012 R2 ADMX files on my domain and updated the group policy for the RDS server to enable both TCP and UDP for the transport protocols, and also to enable RDP8. I ran gpresult on the server to confirm that the updated group policy has been applied to the server (it is). I have opened port 3389 for UDP in the firewall (the rule for TCP was already there, so I had to create a new rule for UDP).
Even though I manage group policy from the domain level and the updated policy has been applied to the server, I opened the local group policy editor on the server to make the same changes there. However, the two entries I need are not there.
I'm out of ideas at this point. What should I try next?