As far as I know, there is no such GPO setting. I assume that the
help text refers to the time-out limits on disconnected sessions.
I don't think there ever will be such a setting either, because it is
impossible to stop users from disconnecting by simply switching off
their workstation.
Seems that user education is the way to go here. Make sure that they
have to call the helpdesk when they want to connect again and their
previous session is hanging (by limiting users to a single session).
That will quickly learn them to logoff properly.
I'm amazed though that you cannot reset the session. Even if the
application doesn't die gracefully (that's to be expected when you
reset the session), you should be able to kill the session.
Which application is this? And what exactly do you mean with "the
application "geeks out" the terminal server"?
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Post by James CraneThanks for the reply Vera. Unfortunately, neither solution is
an option. If I set the TS to reset the disconnected the
sessions, the applications do not exit gracefully, and the
session hangs while exiting. Also, most of the RDP clients are
thin clients, so hacking the mstsc.exe file is not an option.
Where is this "Do not allow disconnected sessions" policy in
Group Policy? Any luck it will included in a future service
pack?
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 10:39:37 -0800, "Vera Noest [MVP]"
Post by Vera Noest [MVP]You can never completely stop users from disconnecting their
sessions (they can always unplug the network cable or switch off
their workstation).
* Set a very short time-out limit on disconnected sessions, and
configure them to be reset automatically when the time-out limit
is exceeded. Note that this will kill the disconnected sessions,
and can cause loss of unsaved data in the session. So you should
combine this with user education!
* You can modify the Terminal Server Client to remove the X box
in the upper right corner. This will obviously mean extra work
when you want to update the TS client.
http://terminal.servebeer.com/php/x_box_disable.php
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Post by James CraneI have a customer which has a need to force users to log off
from their terminal server sessions rather than disconnect.
They are running an application which "geeks out" the terminal
server if they leave their sessions disconnected. I've
already set the group policy setting to "Remove Disconnect
option from the Shut Down Dialog", but this does not prevent
them from clicking the X in their RDP session window, which as
you know results in a disconnected session.... The
explaination for the above group policy mentions another
policy "Do not allow disconnected sessions", but this policy
is no where to be found in the Group Policy editor. Where the
heck is this policy located??