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Unable to Copy and Paste to and from remote desktop connection on some servers.

Akshay 1 Reputation point
2021-05-21T12:48:56.863+00:00

Unable to Copy and Paste to and from the remote desktop connections on some servers. None of the file types are working. I tried folder copy, text file copy, word, excel, .exe file copy. none of those work. Interestingly, copy-paste of text to and from works.

Client OS is Windows 10.
Remote Desktop Server OS is Windows server 2016.

Troubleshooting did so far:

  1. Killed rdpclip.exe and tested. No luck
  2. Rebooted the server and the client. No luck
  3. Added rdpclip.exe to exclusions in Antivirus. No luck
  4. Removed Antivirus and tested. No luck.
  5. Tried local login to the remote desktop server instead of domain login. No luck
  6. Verified in the group policy and made sure Do not allow Clipboard redirection and
    Do not allow drive redirection are set to not configured.
  7. Replaced the rdpclip.exe from a working server. No luck.
  8. Compared local security policies (secpol.msc) with a working server and replicated the same settings on the non-working server. Rebooted after that. No luck.
  9. Tried disabling all the Group Policies that are pushed through Domain Controller. No luck.

Any suggestions as to what more we can do to identify and fix the issue?

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  1. rsn71 1 Reputation point
    2022-02-11T16:44:17.803+00:00

    I am having this issue and have tried everything in this post - the RDC already had Clipboard checked. I have rebooted the server, the laptop that I am using RDP on. Still unable to copy and p paste from the Event Viewer. I can't even copy and paste to Notepad on the same server with NO RDP.

    This is ridiculous - with a Mac you can copy and past from any dialog box that pops up. Why on earth desert Microsoft allow this on all their products and OS? Makes life so much easier and saves a ton of time for the administrator.

    Microsoft needs to think about how their customer use the event viewer log.

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  2. yezzie 1 Reputation point
    2022-03-01T05:56:50.81+00:00

    I tried this with VPN connection that happened last week and it is interrupting the work.

    In my issue, I change disabled in gpedit.msc and task manager > details > rdpclip.exe (not exist). So I tried to run a new task. but still the same.

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  3. Boris Tabenkin 1 Reputation point
    2022-06-03T12:20:59.507+00:00

    I have been struggling with this for days, coming from MAC. The answer was to kill and restart rdpclip.exe, thanks for the hint.

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  4. Harvey Deng 1 Reputation point
    2022-06-22T11:27:46.33+00:00

    I find another solution to this problem. Close microsoft excel and reconnect the remote desktop. That works for me.

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  5. Veerendra Singirtha 0 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2023-08-30T00:15:26.0966667+00:00

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