If you are prevented from logging on to your server via RDP and receive a message that the maximum number of connections have been exceeded, see steps below to login to the special session to then disconnect the other user sessions:<\/p>\n
1. Open Command Prompt on your local windows computer
\n2. Type: mstsc \/admin
\n3. Hit ‘Enter’ key and login
\n4. This will open a new session enabling you to log off other sessions.
\n5. Open task manager, go to the users tab and log off idle or disconnected users<\/p>\n
The special session you are using to login has restrictions. Once you have logged off the other users, you should log back into the sever in the normal way.<\/p>\n
Remember that remote desktop sessions are closed out from the server if the user Logs Off from the server and not when they simply close the session from clicking the X in the upper corner.<\/p>\n
To configure session settings on a windows 2008R2 server with Remote Desktop Services role installed, go to RD Session Host Configuration, RDP-Tcp properties, Sessions tab, and enter value to end a disconnect session after a specific period of time, end an idle session, etc. (tsconfig.msc also opens the RD Session Host Configuration window). More details can be found here: http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc754272.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you are prevented from logging on to your server via RDP and receive a message that the maximum number of connections have been exceeded, see steps below to login to the special session to then disconnect the other user sessions: 1. Open Command Prompt on your local windows computer 2. Type: mstsc \/admin 3. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[69,79],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-remote-desktop-hosting","category-windows-2008r2","tag-terminal-server-hosting","tag-windows-server-2008r2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.RiptideHosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}