Remote Desktop Connection Stuck In Please Wait State

Sat, 27 May 2023 15:02:00 -0500

I found this solution in the Q&A section of Microsoft Learn. Credit goes to the original author.

This process will involve creatating an .rdp file, and editing it in notepad and adding a flag which will prompt the user to enter their password.

Get the ipaddress of the machine that is stuck in the Please Wait state.

ping [server] -4
-4 flag ensures that IPv4 address is used.

Open Remote Desktop Connection application.
– Start -> Remote Desktop Connection or Start -> mstsc
Enter the IP address of the machine noted in the above step.
Click on the Show Options button.

Click on Save As and save the configuration to a file.

Navigate to the directory where the rdp configuration file is saved. Right click on the file, and open the configuration file with Notepad.
Add the following to the bottom of the file and save it. This option will turn off the Network Level Authentication therefore the user will be prompted to enter the password up on connecting to the server.

enablecredsspsupport:i:0

Once the file is saved, double click on it, so launch Remote Desktop Connection and click on Connect. Click Yes on the next dialog box to connect despite certificate errors.

This should show a Windows login page, and up on logging in, will get past the Please Wait screen.

Reset Session

Another way to resolve this issue is resetting the session. It is important to note that doing this will log off the user, therefore any running processes will be terminated.

Running Eclipse 2019-06 M1 version with Java 11

Sun, 05 May 2019 13:54:00 -0500

I had trouble getting Eclipse 2019-06 M1 (4.12.0M1) to run using JDK version 11. I had Java 8 installed on my machine, so when Eclipse launched, it was picking up Java 8.

After uninstalling Java 8, Eclipse wouldn’t launch because the new JDK wasn’t installed.

Adding this to the eclipse.ini file fixed the issue for me -

-vm
D:/java/jdk-11.0.3/bin/javaw.exe

eclipse.ini

Here is the full eclipse.ini file -

-startup
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.5.300.v20190213-1655.jar
--launcher.library
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_64_1.1.1000.v20190125-2016
-product
org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product
-showsplash
org.eclipse.epp.package.common
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
-vm
D:/java/jdk-11.0.3/bin/javaw.exe
--launcher.appendVmargs
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.8
-Dosgi.instance.area.default=@user.home/eclipse-workspace
-XX:+UseG1GC
-XX:+UseStringDeduplication
--add-modules=ALL-SYSTEM
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.8
-Dosgi.dataAreaRequiresExplicitInit=true
-Xms256m
-Xmx1024m
--add-modules=ALL-SYSTEM

After successfully getting Eclipse to use the new JDK, here is the version information -

Guide on alinuxuser

Remote Desktop Connection Stuck In Please Wait State

Reset Session

Running Eclipse 2019-06 M1 version with Java 11