Personal License
Non-commercial use
Free for personal use
- Perpetual license
- Non-commercial use only
Remote Desktop management
Terminal Services Manager - Monitor and Manage RDS Sessions
Terminal Services Manager connects to all your Remote Desktop hosts at once and shows every session, user, and process on one screen. You see what is happening and act on it without opening a console on each server.
- Watch users, sessions, and processes on every RDS server in real time
- Shadow, disconnect, log off, or message users in a few clicks
- See each session's RDP connection quality: frame quality, packet loss, and a Poor/Fair/Good/Excellent rating
- Turn Remote Desktop on or off and manage user profiles on remote machines
Monitor Remote Desktop Services across multiple servers
Terminal Services Manager connects to one or more RDS servers and shows every session, user, and process in one place. CPU, memory, and 11 more server metrics render on interactive charts with zoom, pan, and measurement, and the legend shows min, max, average, and current values in real time.
Per-user columns show frame rate and frame quality, with a signal-strength icon that rates each session's connection health. Diagnostic counters (packet loss, retransmission, frames skipped, encoding time) help you spot troubled sessions fast.
You can audit user activity, monitor failed logon attempts, manage user profiles remotely, and enable or disable Remote Desktop on remote computers. Log off or disconnect idle users in bulk, send messages, and shadow user sessions.
The interface has Dark Mode with automatic switching based on your Windows theme, high-DPI support, and works on Windows 11.
Version
v26.10
Released Oct 12, 2026
Platform
Windows
10 · 2016 · 2019 · 2022 · 11 · 2025
Download
15.3 MB
Program · 64-bit
Languages
16
Localized interface
Highlights
Everything you need to manage RDS sessions
Watch sessions, act on them, and keep an eye on every server from one place.
Interactive performance charts
Zoom through time windows, copy charts or save them as PNG, and show min, max, and average in the legend.
Administration tools
Log off, disconnect, shadow, and message users across all your servers.
130+ administrative commands
130+ built-in commands across 12 categories, plus your own custom tools.
Advanced filtering
Filter sessions and processes with AND/OR rules, numeric ranges, and quick search.
Computer discovery
Find servers automatically from 7 sources: AD, IP range, RDS Connection Broker, SCCM, and more.
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A closer look
What you'll use every day
The views and actions you reach for most when you run Remote Desktop hosts.
Session and user monitoring
Connect to one or more RDS servers and see all sessions, users, and processes in one place. Per-user columns show output frame rate and frame quality. A connection quality score from 0 to 100% and a 4-bar icon rate each session's connection health. Built-in filter presets pick out poor and degraded connections. Server-level columns show the average round-trip time, frame rate, and frame quality, and the median connection quality across all sessions. Seven diagnostic columns help troubleshoot slow sessions: packet loss, retransmission rate, FEC correction rate, frames skipped (client/network/server), and encoding time. Use filters like loss > 1% or retransmission > 5% to find problem sessions across your servers.
Server performance monitoring
CPU, memory, and 11 additional server metrics: available memory, pagefile usage, disk free space, disk read/write speed, disk busy percentage, disk queue length, network bytes received and sent, and system uptime. All with real-time interactive charts.
Inspector
Pick a server, session, or process and the inspector on the right of the window describes it: CPU and memory with their recent trend, its state, and every property the list holds. With nothing picked, it sums up the whole list and puts any reading past its threshold at the top, worst first. A triangle (warning) or a diamond (critical) before a reading's name shows that it passed its threshold.
For servers and users, an Active Directory tab adds what the domain holds. For a user session, that is job title, department, manager, contacts, account state, password expiry, groups, and the management chain. For a server, it is the computer account, role, registered services, delegation, Kerberos encryption, LAPS, notes, extension attributes, SID, and GUID.
Administration tools
Log off or disconnect idle users across servers by time threshold. Log off disconnected users to clean up stale sessions. Shadow (remote control) user sessions. Manage user profiles on remote computers. Build a session history from the Windows Event Log and export it as an HTML report with charts.
Track user activity: logon, logoff, disconnect, and reconnect events. Monitor failed logon attempts. View RDS licensing info. Send messages to users with presets and variables. Restart or shut down servers remotely. Export lists to CSV.
Sidebar
A sidebar down the left of the window leads to the Servers, User sessions, Processes, and Log sections and shows how many servers, user sessions, and processes there are. The Servers, User sessions, and Processes lists have a row of commands across the top, with Cards and Charts buttons for the summary cards and charts below it.
New in v26.10
What's new in this release
Released Oct 12, 2026. A new window layout with a sidebar, an inspector, summary cards, and a command palette.
Full release notes- An inspector on the right describes the row you pick, or the whole list when nothing is picked: CPU and memory with their trend, the state, and every property.
- An Active Directory tab in the inspector shows a user's job title, manager, groups, and password expiry, or a server's role, LAPS, and Kerberos settings.
- Summary cards between each list and its charts show the current figure, its low, average, and high, and a sparkline.
- Ctrl+Shift+P opens a command palette that finds any menu or Tools command as you type, in English or in your language.
- A sidebar on the left leads to the four sections and shows how many servers, user sessions, and processes there are.
- File > Report builds an HTML status report of the monitored servers.
System requirements
What you need to run it
Install it on one workstation. It talks to your servers over the protocols they already use.
Operating system
Windows 10, 2016, 2019, 2022, 11, 2025
Processor
1 GHz or faster
Memory
512 MB RAM
Disk space
50 MB free disk space
Access
RDP / RPC to target servers
Privileges
Administrator on remote hosts
Pricing
Free for home, paid for work
Start free for personal use, then buy a commercial license when you roll it out at work.
Business License
Commercial, per machine
US$299.95/ license
- Perpetual license
- One year of free updates
- Email and ticket support
Corporate License
Whole organization
US$5,999.95/ license
- Perpetual license
- Unlimited installations
- Unlimited technicians
- Across departments and sites
- One year of free updates
- Email and ticket support
- Priority support
Frequently asked questions
Questions people ask
Short answers on licensing and setup.
The Microsoft Remote Desktop Services Manager (the old tsadmin.msc) manages one server at a time, and Microsoft removed it from Windows Server after 2008 R2. Terminal Services Manager is an alternative that works on all current versions of Windows and manages many hosts together.
From a single window it shows the sessions, users, and processes of every server in your list at once, with live CPU, memory, disk, and network metrics. It keeps the familiar actions - disconnect, log off, shadow, send message, reset - and adds session history, failed logon auditing, filtering, and graphs. For the full story on where the old snap-in went, see where is Terminal Services Manager in Windows Server 2012 and later.
No. Terminal Services Manager is agentless. It connects to each Remote Desktop Services host using the Windows interfaces already built into the operating system: the WTS (Terminal Services) API for sessions, users, and processes; performance counters for CPU and memory; and the event log for session history. Nothing is installed or left running on the machines you manage.
You install the program only on your own workstation or a management server. The hosts you manage need to be reachable over the network, and you need administrator rights on them. To get started, see How to add your RDS servers and connect with the right account and System requirements.
The latest version of Terminal Services Manager supports the following Windows platforms: Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022, Windows 11, Windows Server 2025.
It runs on any Windows version that ships Remote Desktop Services and the supporting WMI and RPC interfaces, on both workstations and servers. For the full list and the rights you need, see System requirements.
Yes, for personal use. The Personal License is free and perpetual, for non-commercial use only.
Using it at work needs a paid license. A Business License covers one machine and includes a year of updates. A Corporate License covers a whole organization, with unlimited installations and technicians. Prices are on the purchase page.
If you want to try it first, the evaluation copy has no feature limits: every feature, on one computer, with a reminder at startup.
There are no feature limitations in an unregistered copy. During the evaluation period you can use every feature of Terminal Services Manager on a single computer, exactly as in a registered copy. Unregistered copies show a reminder screen at startup, and use is limited to one machine on the network.
To remove the reminder and run the program on more machines, register your license. See also how to order and using it on more than one computer.
Terminal Services Manager uses standard Windows management protocols, so the same ports you would open for any remote administration are enough. On each managed host, allow access from your workstation to:
- TCP 445 (SMB) - session, user, and process lists through the Terminal Services (WTS) API, and performance counters
- TCP 135 and the dynamic RPC range - performance counters and the event log used for session history and failed logons
- TCP 3389 (RDP) - only if you connect to or shadow a session
- ICMP and TCP 135 - the checks that tell whether a host is up
On a domain network the built-in Remote Administration and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) firewall rule groups already open these. To get hosts into the program in the first place, see How to add your RDS servers and connect with the right account.
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