

It happened whether they were typing in an application or a browser and was occurring without pressing the shift key. This every other character being a capital letter occurred when using multiple keyboards including local and USB keyboards.

When a user with a Windows 8.1 computer would login to a Windows 2012 R2 Remote Desktop Server any text they typed would show up as a capital letter followed by a lower case letter. You can save this setting to be permanent by going back to the General tab and doing “save” or “save as”. Under Keyboard, Apply Windows key combinations, select in the dropdown “on local machine / on this machine”. Click more and go to the Local Resources tab.

Open Remote Desktop Connection on your local machine. The solution in his case was to modify the following setting on the remote desktop connection client prior to logging in. SOLUTION is to change the RDP settings on the client A client of ours running a Windows 2012 R2 remote desktop, terminal server was having issues where when they typed on their local keyboard it will show up on the server as alternating capital and lowercase letters like this “RiPtIdE hOsTiNg”.
