How to send a message to all Remote Desktop users
Before you patch or reboot, the users on a Remote Desktop host need warning. This guide covers the msg command for one server and broadcasting to many servers at once with reusable presets.
How-to guides for managing Remote Desktop sessions
Short, task-focused walkthroughs: add your RDS servers, log off idle or disconnected users, shadow a session, audit RDP logons, and message everyone at once.
How to shadow a Remote Desktop user's session
Shadowing lets you watch or take control of a user's live Remote Desktop session for support. This guide covers mstsc /shadow and how to do it across many servers, including without making the help desk admins.
How to find which user is using high CPU on an RDS host
The terminal server is at 100% CPU and everyone is slow. This guide shows how to pinpoint the session and process responsible, then end the process or message the user.
How to log off disconnected RDP sessions
Disconnected Remote Desktop sessions keep holding memory and CPU long after the user has gone. This guide shows how to find them and log them off, on one server or across the whole farm.
How to see who is logged on to a Remote Desktop server
See every user signed in to your Remote Desktop Services hosts in one place. This guide covers the quser command for a single server and how to view all sessions across many servers at once.
Why You Should Monitor Failed Logon Attempts
Monitoring failed logon attempts plays a crucial role in maintaining the security of computer systems and networks. By diligently tracking and analyzing failed logon attempts, organizations can strengthen their defense against unauthorized access attempts and potential security breaches.
How to use multiple monitors to connect to Remote Desktop?
Multiple monitors option allows users to open a Remote Desktop connection expanded across all the monitors on the client computer regardless of a client monitor configuration.
Enable or Disable Remote Desktop on remote computers
By default Windows Remote Management is enabled in Windows Server Product, but Remote Desktop (RDP) is disabled. Neither of these two options is enabled by default on workstations.
How to restrict the maximum resolution of each monitor that can be used to display a Remote Desktop Services session
By default, RDP restricts the maximum resolution to 4096 X 2048 per monitor. Additionally with multimon, the width and height of each remote monitor can also be restricted.
How to restrict the maximum number of monitors that can be used to display a Remote Desktop Services session
The Remote Desktop provides an option to restrict the number of monitors a user can use to connect. By default, RDP protocol supports a maximum of 16 monitors. This number can be restricted to any value between 1 and 16 using one of the following two approaches: