Questions tagged [terminal-services]

Terminal Services provides the ability to host multiple, simultaneous client sessions on Windows Server 2003.

Terminal Services provides the ability to host multiple, simultaneous client sessions on Windows Server 2003. Terminal Services is capable of directly hosting compatible multi-user client desktops running on a variety of Windows-based and non Windows-based computers.

What Is Terminal Services?

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How to extend C# DirectoryServices UserContext with msTSProfilePath, msTSHomeDirectory etc

I need to read/write ActiveDirectory User object Terminal Services properties. I tried this: PrincipalContext context = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain, "CA"); using (context) { UserPrincipal user =…
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Prevent lock of windows detecting user idle time

I work in a Windows Terminal Server enviroment where if you left the computer for a while, windows lock the session and terminal is power off. What i need is the code needed to send a message to Windows for it to believe the user is in front of the…
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Get sessions using cassia with username and password

I have a remote machine and I want to get all logged in user details. I wrote the code using cassia as follwoign using this link ITerminalServicesManager manager = new TerminalServicesManager(); using (ITerminalServer server =…
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Add logon program for TSclients in environment tab user adsi in Powershell

Hi I'm tring to set a logon program parameter for remote clients that will be created using a powershell script. As shown below I managed to get a logon script to set in the profile tab using $objUser.PSBase.InvokeSet('LoginScript',…
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(How) Can Terminal Services / Remote Desktop be used to share an Access Database?

The only type of 'remote desktop' application I've used previously is VNC viewer. My understanding of this kind of application is that when multiple users log in to the same VNC server, they share the keyboard, mouse and desktop, so only one person…
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How to check/query active rdp connections to an ec2 machine?

I have a couple of ec2 machines and need to inquire about any RDP sessions (connections) to those machines. I have tried various methods but I get access denied or 'RPC server is unavailable' messages. Although port 3389 is opened. Here is the…
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How to get the WTSClientAddress from the java.lang.Object getClientInfo()

In one of our current web application we are using the getClientInfo() from a java.lang.Object reference in our Oracle Forms application which works great for egtting the client IP address of a system. However we recently started to use Windows…
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Cassia Library giving exception when calling any methods

I am trying to run the Cassia library on a remote Windows Server 2008 Terminal Server. Any methods I call I get the response below. No more data is available Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web…
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Cassia TS libraries rporting false session login time (sometimes...)

Is anyone familiar with Cassia Terminal Service libraries? I’m having problems with the login times. On some PCs the time is about seven minutes later than it should be. I read that there was a similar bug, but was corrected. I have a service…
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Enumerate terminal services sessions in Delphi 2007 on Windows 7

I'm using QWINSTA.EXE to get the session/user list from a terminal server on our network (my computer is Windows 7 Pro, the TS is Windows Server 2003). I pipe the output of this function to a text file and then process the text file to get the info…
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What is Terminal Server/Terminal Services on a Windows platform?

I'm currently reading the MSDN description of some Windows APIs, such as WTSEnumerateSessions for instance, and it has words, such as ... is used ... on a Terminal Server and ... requires running Terminal Services But there seems to be no…
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What does localhost mean within a Windows terminal services server? Machine or session?

I'm investigating a project at the moment to create an application which will listen to "localhost" within a Windows terminal services environment. I don't have access to a test environment at present, but I wanted to check this design, especially…
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How to detect if Windows Terminal Server is in Install Mode

I can use the following command to find out if a Windows Terminal Server is in Install Mode. change user /query How can I detect this programmatically through the Windows API?
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Shadow a RDP session in windows 10

I like to shadow a windows 10 RDP session from windwos 10 local computer. I've tried this link: http://woshub.com/rdp-session-shadow-to-windows-10-user/ . I updated all the registry and firewall changes but not getting results. If I've mutiple…
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Upload a file into a VB.NET application running under terminal services

We are developing an application in VB.NET that will need to accomodate remote users logging onto a Microsoft Terminal Server using RDP through the MSTSC.exe client. Is it possible to offer an 'Upload' button which will allow the remote user to pick…
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