2004-06-20

Keep others from tying up both Remote Desktop admin sessions

Keep others from tying up both Remote Desktop admin sessions I’m sure most of you use Remote Desktop for Administration (RDA) on your Windows servers. It is probably one of the most valuable parts of the Microsoft server operating system, in my opinion. One limitation of RDA is that you can only have 2 client connections on the server. Several times I’ve been unable to connect because someone has carelessly disconnected their session when they really should have logged off, and then reopened another session with a new connection. Then you have to go into the connection manager and kill one of the connections, hoping that the person wasn’t running anything important on that connection. Whoops! I have found at least one answer to this problem! In Windows Server 2003 (only), there is a new group policy setting called Restrict Terminal Services Users to a Single Remote Session. ...