PayGlobal Online login solutions (after Windows 2022 upgrade)
In 2023 the PayGlobal Online Platform team replaced the Remote Desktop infrastructure used to access PayGlobal Online with a resilient, highly available solution on a modern operating system (Windows 2022). A modern operating system also provides benefits such as improved security, performance, and stability.
What has changed?
From a user perspective, there are no changes to functionality or User Interface (UI). These changes are purely designed to make accessing PayGlobal more reliable, secure, and performant.
At an infrastructural level, we are not moving away from Remote Desktop hosting and are replacing all current servers and implementing high availability at the PayGlobal Online Access Portal and Remote Desktop Connection Broker points. All new infrastructure is built as infrastructure as code (using AWS CDK) and improves our ability to respond to server failures by simply redeploying the code.
This page documents common problems and solutions that you might come across when connecting to the new Windows 2022 PayGlobal Online Access Portal.
You can login to the new environment with existing credentials at the following website - https://payglobal.myobpayglobal.com/RDWeb/
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If you are unable to navigate to new environment website, please find your external internet facing IP address and send it to the support team via an authorised contact so that it can be whitelisted on the new online Firewall.
Ask the IT team to supply the IP address or address range as there may be more than one to whitelist.
For more information, see PayGlobal Online - IP Address Whitelisting.
Nothing happens when you click on the downloaded RDP
If you download the RDP and are unable to run it, right-click on it to view Properties and Unblock it.
Solution: Simply tick the checkbox and click Ok before trying again.
If you do not see the Unblock option or if unblocking does not fix the problem? Please restart your computer and it should work.
Disable UDP to fix various connection issues. E.g. PayGlobal doesn't load, disconnections
There is currently a bug with Windows 10/11 and Windows 2022 Remote Desktop Deployments. The main symptom of this bug is that ‘When clicking on the .RDP file in your downloads, or from your browser window, no login box/connection is created.’
You can test if you are experiencing this bug, by going to the task manager, in the processes tab, under Background processes, ending the ‘Remote Desktop Connection’ and ‘RemoteApp and Desktop Connection Runtime’ background processes in Task Manager. If you can now open your .RDP file, then you are affected by this issue.
Solution: Your internal IT team can resolve this issue by applying a group policy change or changing a registry key on all machines of users who use PayGlobal online in your organization. Please pass this on to your IT team.
To do this, you need to set the following registry value to 0x00000001 (REG_DWORD):
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services\Client\fClientDisableUDP
Note: You can also achieve the same fix via Group Policy. Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Connection Client > Turn off UDP on client - Enabled
The logon attempt failed or user does not see "More Choices"
User is able to log into web portal but fails to successfully logon to RDP Windows Security prompt due to “The logon attempt failed”.
Or, the user does not see the option to click “More Choices”.
There has been no failed logon attempt that support can see on the Active Directory account.
Solution: IT will need to either set the following registry key value to 0x00000000 or delete it on all PayGlobal user's machine.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\RDGClientTransport
Note: If the problem re-occurs after making this change, check if a value of 0x00000001 has returned. The IT team may need to remove it from group policy so that it doesn’t return.
Unable to print
Please ensure you select one of the redirected printers to print to.
Printing issue Remote Desktop on MacOS Sonoma 14.0
Unable to print from Remote Desktop after upgrading to MacOS v14 (Sonoma)
Solution: MacOS has removed the functionality for converting PostScript and EPS files to PDF format.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-14-release-notes
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213250
There was a problem connecting to the remote resource (Zscaler)
If your organization uses Zscaler, multiple customers have reported that it interferes with accessing PayGlobal Online. When RDP is launched, an error appears "There was a problem connecting to the remote resource."
To confirm if Zscaler is in use there and causing the connection problem, navigate to the following webpage and it will tell you - https://ip.zscaler.com/
Solution: The IT team needs to add *.myobpayglobal.com into the SSL Bypass policy in Zscaler policy for all Payglobal users. If already there, please try adding *.payglobal.myobpayglobal.com.
Remote logins are currently disabled
If you receive the following error message, it means that additional remote servers are currently starting and will be available shortly.
Solution: Please try to login again in 5 minutes.