Thank You, Soo Kuan for reminding me ot that tools!
Vera's suggestion for a time limmit (logoff or disconnect if inactive) is
not apporpriate for my case, because my common practice is to leave the
workplace and go have a walk to rest (sometimes for long). Then I may come
back to continue what I am doing.
On the other hand the qwinsta.exe and rwinsta.exe and logoff.exe tools can
be started from a web page interface (ASP). I can always logon as
Administrator via HTTPS and use web interface to see what user accounts are
logged on and to logoff one of them on my choice.
I believe that this will be the best way, because it is secure, reliable and
there will be no idle sessions reset.
I only need some free time to study ASP... Visual Studio will be a good
friend for this.
"Soo Kuan Teo [MSFT]" <sookuant@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ed0zSVwwHHA.2432@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
| Have you tried using Terminal Services command line tools? You can use
| Qwinsta.exe to query sessions on a server, and use logoff.exe <session id>
| to logoff sessions.
| For more info, please goto start menu->Help and Support->Software
| Deployment->Terminal Services
|
| Thanks
| Soo Kuan
|
|
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|
| "Vera Noest [MVP]" <vera.noest@remove-this.hem.utfors.se> wrote in message
| news:Xns99689064B674Averanoesthemutforsse@207.46.248.16...
| > If you find that all of your administrative sessions are active
| > because you have forgotten to logoff when you left home, you could
| > also implement a time out limit on idle sessions, and have them
| > automatically reset after let's say one hour.
| > That's done in Terminal Services Configuration.
| > _________________________________________________________
| > Vera Noest
| > MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
| > TS troubleshooting:
http://ts.veranoest.net
| > ___ please respond in newsgroup, NOT by private email ___
| >
| > "George Valkov" <a@b.com> wrote on 08 jul 2007 in
| > microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:
| >
| >> That friend of mine just gave me a great idea! I can learn how
| >> to create a web application that will show me the active
| >> Terminal Sessions and allow me to reset one
| >>
| >> Secure logon (HTTPS) to it will always be available
| >>
| >>
| >> "George Valkov" <a@b.com> wrote in message
| >> news:%23DMALBawHHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
| >>| Thank You very much, Vera!
| >>|
| >>| "Vera Noest [MVP]" <vera.noest@remove-this.hem.utfors.se> wrote
| >>| in message
| >>| news:Xns9967D3B5AEAAAveranoesthemutforsse@207.46.248.16...
| >>|| There's no option or registry setting for this.
| >>|| Administrative sessions are designed for use by Administrators
| >>|| only.
| >>|
| >>| Aha! Well, I use it to make my home PC a mobile one and bring
| >>| it to the university or whereever I need to. It's very usevul!
| >>|
| >>|
| >>|| It should be a very rare situation to have 2 Administrators
| >>|| already logged on but not able to fix the problem, and thus
| >>|| the need for a third Administrative session (while there is
| >>|| also something running on the console which can't be
| >>|| interrupted).
| >>|
| >>| In one extremely rare situation, a student has windows server
| >>| 2003 enterprise installed on his home PC... I mostly work on
| >>| the console (this admin account A0 is denied access from
| >>| network and and RDP for security reasons), but sometimes I have
| >>| a second session (as my second admin
| >> account
| >>| A2) console to localhost. This allows me to better arrange my
| >>| workspace, when there are many design applications running.
| >>| Sometimes I leave home
| >> and
| >>| logon from my university (as A2). So far so good...
| >>| If I forget to close the second terminal session (as A2), oh
| >>| and by the
| >> way
| >>| a friend of mine may logon (power user) from the other side of
| >>| the planet -) ... (I shall ask him to logoff, when he don't
| >>| need to be logged on.) That's 2 out of 2 and I can no longer
| >>| logon/connect as the already open session of A2 from my
| >>| university (if it's still active at localhost). And the
| >>| console... Well I like recording movies from the TV and
| >>| compressing them. This takes a lot of time, so I prefer not to
| >>| interrupt it, but I
| >> would
| >>| do so if I need to.
| >>|
| >>|
| >>|| In
| >>|| that case, you best option is to use the phone and ask one of
| >>|| the other Administrators to log off. Or, if you can connect to
| >>|| your network, send them a message.
| >>|
| >>| The phone will probably do! Or if I can catch my friend online.
| >>|
| >>|
| >>|| If you are using Administrative sessions to give normal users
| >>|| access to your server, then you should really install Terminal
| >>|| Services, not just Remote Desktop for Administration.
| >>|
| >>| And if I do so, what will be the minimum configuration that
| >>| does not
| >> require
| >>| me to buy any licenses?
| >>|
| >>|
| >>| George Valkov
| >>|
| >>|
| >>|
| >>|| "George Valkov" <a@b.com> wrote on 08 jul 2007 in
| >>|| microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:
| >>||
| >>|| > Remote desktop for Administration mode.
| >>|| > Suppose that two user are logged on the terminal server.
| >>|| > (all 2 available slots are busy)
| >>|| >
| >>|| > Now what if an Administrator has to logon (emergency) from
| >>|| > far away place on the internet side?
| >>|| > I receive this error:
| >>|| > The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of
| >>|| > allowed connections.
| >>|| >
| >>|| > How do I tell the server to throw a dice and disconnect or
| >>|| > logoff someone (it doesn't matter who)? It is more important
| >>|| > that the Administrator can logon.
| >>|| >
| >>|| > What options are available?
| >>|| > 1. A configuration or registry setting? Where?
| >>|| > 2. /console ?
| >>|| > 3. What if I do not want to logoff the console session?
| >>|| >
| >>|| > Thank You for any advice and information!
| >>|| >
| >>|| > George Valkov
|