How to Enable System Beep on Windows Server 2008R2 to Work for ICA and RDP Sessions

How to Enable System Beep on Windows Server 2008R2 to Work for ICA and RDP Sessions

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Description

This article describes how to enable the System Beep on Windows Server 2008R2 so that it works for ICA and RDP Sessions.

Requirements

You must be an administrator on the server where you want to enable this feature.

Background

Some legacy applications still want to use the System Beep as audible notification for events. The System Beep is no longer working by default with Windows Server 2008 R2.

Instructions

Complete the following steps to enable System Beep:

  1. Install the Desktop Experience server feature.

  1. Configure the Windows Audio service to start automatically.

  1. Configure the Beep service to start automatically:

    sc config beep start= auto

  1. Enable the SystemSoundsService task to run on user logon.

    1. Open the Task Scheduler.

    2. Go to the Task Library.

    3. Navigate to Microsoft/Windows/Multimedia.

    4. Right-click the SystemSoundsService task and click Enable.

    Issue/Introduction

    This article describes how to enable the System Beep on Windows Server 2008R2 so that it works for ICA and RDP Sessions.
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