Windows Server 2012 R2 Smart card limit

Question

Afternoon all

We've got an application that runs on Windows Server that requires upto 50 smartcard's to be connected to the host application server.
This works without any issues on our existing Server 2003/2008 installations.

However when we've come to test the application on Server 2012 R2, only 10 smartcards show up. All the USB devices are recognised correctly, however our pcsc test app can only find 10 terminals.

Has anyone encountered this issue before? Any known fixes?

Cheers
Gavin

Answer 1

Unfortunately this is a windows limitation, and i don't think that there is or will be any solution for this. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3144446/limitation-of-10-smart-card-readers-in-windows-server-2012-r2,-windows-8,-and-later