HowTo: Enable multiple sessions for Remote Desktop Services
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- Goal
- Enable Multiple RDP Sessions
- Disable Multiple RDP Sessions
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Summary
If you already use Remote Desktop Services with MyWorkspace, you might have noticed, that you can only have one RemoteApp open at a time. This is because by default, Windows Server 2012 allows only a single Remote Desktop session for each user.
This article describes how to enable [and disable] multiple sessions. This way you can use multiple RemoteApps in different tabs at the same time.
Goal
After completing this how-to you will have your Remote Desktop Services configured to allow multiple sessions. Hence allowing your users to use multiple RemoteApps in MyWorkspace at the same time.
Enable Multiple RDP Sessions
- Log into the server, where the Remote Desktop Services are installed.
- Open the start screen [press the Windows key] and type gpedit.msc and open it.
- Go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host > Connections.
- Set Restrict Remote Desktop Services user to a single Remote Desktop Services session to Disabled.
- Double click Limit number of connections and set the RD Maximum Connections allowed to 999999.
Disable Multiple RDP Sessions
- Log into the server, where the Remote Desktop Services are installed.
- Open the start screen [press the Windows key] and type gpedit.msc and open it.
- Go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host > Connections.
- Set Restrict Remote Desktop Services user to a single Remote Desktop Services session to Enabled.
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