When you don't log off Windows Remote Desktop (or terminal service client), the connection becomes
orphaned. You may get the following screen:
Too many sessions prevents future logins. Do the following to clean up connections (on Windows 2003 server).
From a client machines CMD windows:
D:>query session /SERVER:myserver.myco.com
SESSIONNAME USERNAME ID STATE TYPE DEVICE
console 0 Conn wdcon
rdp-tcp 65536 Listen rdpwd
rdp-tcp#11 Administrator 1 Active rdpwd
rdp-tcp#4 Administrator 2 Active rdpwd
The above show 2 connections to “myserver”. You can kill the sessions with ID 1, 2, 3, so on.
tsdiscon 1 /SERVER:myserver.myco.com
where 1 rdp-tcp#11 Administrator 1 Active rdpwd “ID” col
Also, can tskill to remotely stop a process.
2/7/09
How to kill hanging Windows remote desktop connection
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