Intermittent Copy/Paste Problem in RDP
- by Tara Kizer
If you use RDP to remotely connect to your servers, you've probably encountered a clipboard issue where copy/paste stops working. A quick Google search on the problem indicates you can easily fix the problem by logging out/logging back in or killing/restarting rdpclip.exe on the remote server. Here's an article which covers this topic. But what do you do when copy/paste is intermittent? It works one second, stops working for 5-30 seconds, and then on its own starts working again. This is what’s occurring in our new non-production environment. The DBA team is setting up 16 new physical servers and 5 new virtual machines. I haven’t found a server where this ISN’T happening. This intermittent copy/paste issue is driving me crazy!