Put Windows Terminal Server into “Maintenance” Mode
I find that quite often if I am having to diagnose a problem on our Windows 2003 Terminal Server my users continue to log on and try to work. If my maintenance requires rebooting the server, or running diagnostics on the server then this can cause problems for the logged in users.
You can temporarily block users from logging onto the terminal server that you are performing maintenance on quite easily:
- Log onto the Terminal Server Console, the actual computer, not through remote desktop
- Open up the Terminal Services Configuration program, which is located in the Administrative Tools folder
- Click on Connections
- Right click on each of the communications protocols you are using for your terminal server (we only use RDP-Tcp)
- On the right click navigation highlight “All Tasks” and click on “Disable Connection”
Now your users will not be able to log onto your Windows Terminal Server until you re-enable the RDP-Tcp protocol, or which ever other protocols you are running.
To enable the Windows Terminal Services protocols, like RDP-Tcp, just follow these steps:
- Log onto the Terminal Server Console, the actual computer, not through remote desktop as this is disabled right now
- Open up the Terminal Services Configuration program, which is located in the Administrative Tools folder
- Click on Connections
- Right click on each of the communications protocols you are using for your terminal server (we only use RDP-Tcp)
- On the right click navigation highlight “All Tasks” and click on “Enable Connection”
That’s it, now your users will be able to log onto your Windows Terminal Server again.
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