Services are a core Windows function designed to enable the creation and management of long-running processes. The Remote Desktop Service is one of the components in Windows that allows you to take control of a remote or virtual machine over a network. Due to the increase of working from home, many people rely on RDS to perform their daily tasks so it is important to ensure that machines that need to be connected to have the service running and ones that do not, don’t. Having RDS running on client machines that do not need to accept remote connections can also be seen as a security issue.
To help you get an overview of the RDS status, you can use the report below to get a list of all machines in your environment that have the Remote Desktop Services service (the name makes it a bit confusing). You can read more about the report’s use case in the Pro Tips blog post.
Remote Desktop Services Query
Select Top 1000000 tblAssets.AssetID,
tblAssets.AssetName,
tblAssets.Domain,
tblAssets.Username,
tblAssets.Userdomain,
Coalesce(tsysOS.Image, tsysAssetTypes.AssetTypeIcon10) As icon,
tblAssets.IPAddress,
tsysIPLocations.IPLocation,
tblAssetCustom.Manufacturer,
tblAssetCustom.Model,
tsysOS.OSname As OS,
tblServicesUni.Caption As [Service Name],
tblServicesUni.Pathname As [Service Path],
tblServiceStartMode.StartMode As [Service Start Mode],
tblServiceState.State As [Service State],
Case
When tblErrors.ErrorText Is Not Null Or
tblErrors.ErrorText != '' Then
'Scanning Error: ' + tsysasseterrortypes.ErrorMsg
Else ''
End As ScanningErrors,
tblAssets.Lastseen,
tblAssets.Lasttried
From tblAssets
Inner Join tblAssetCustom On tblAssets.AssetID = tblAssetCustom.AssetID
Inner Join tsysAssetTypes On tsysAssetTypes.AssetType = tblAssets.Assettype
Inner Join tsysIPLocations On tsysIPLocations.LocationID =
tblAssets.LocationID
Inner join tblServices on tblServices.AssetID = tblassets.AssetID
Inner Join tblServicesUni On tblServicesUni.ServiceuniqueID =
tblServices.ServiceuniqueID
Inner Join tblServiceStartMode On tblServiceStartMode.StartID =
tblServices.StartID
Inner Join tblServiceState On tblServiceState.StateID =
tblServices.StateID
Inner Join tblState On tblState.State = tblAssetCustom.State
Left Join tsysOS On tsysOS.OScode = tblAssets.OScode
Left Join (Select Distinct Top 1000000 tblErrors.AssetID As ID,
Max(tblErrors.Teller) As ErrorID
From tblErrors
Group By tblErrors.AssetID) As ScanningError On tblAssets.AssetID =
ScanningError.ID
Left Join tblErrors On ScanningError.ErrorID = tblErrors.Teller
Left Join tsysasseterrortypes On tsysasseterrortypes.Errortype =
tblErrors.ErrorType
Where tblState.Statename = 'Active' and tblServicesuni.Name = 'termservice'
Order By tblAssets.Domain,
tblAssets.AssetName
