posted on Thursday, June 22, 2006 2:32 PM
by
Jonathan Hodgson
Windows 2003 Terminal Services / Remote Desktop tricks
Here's a couple of little tricks I learnt recently... normally when trying to login a Windows server and you get the message "The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections. The system cannot log you on" because a couple of other people are currently connected I either login to another box (or from my own XP box if adminpak.msi is installed) and then use Terminal Services Manager to see who is connected and kill any idle sessions.
Alternatively you can drop to command prompt and try connecting to the console instead via "mstsc.exe /console".
However I didn't realise there are a couple of command-line tools included with XP and 2003 called qwinsta and rwinsta that can query and reset a remote session, much easier.
Lastly another useful trick is being able to share / shadow / remote control to an existing session, a bit like remote assistance. This is great if you need to work through a server issue with another person watching.
