Managing Remote Desktop services (aka Terminal services) using Windows PowerShell

Rod Trent at myITforum.com — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:47:57 GMT

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re: Managing Remote Desktop services (aka Terminal services) using Windows PowerShell

Jason Stangroome — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:19:04 GMT

Hi,

I've been trying to find a way to query a list of servers for their current Terminal Services sessions and then force a logoff for any sessions that have been inactive for a threshold time.

Is this a supported scenario with PowerShell?

Regards,

Jason

re: Managing Remote Desktop services (aka Terminal services) using Windows PowerShell

Rajesh B R — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:18:55 GMT

Hi Jason,

The session time limits for connection RDP-Tcp can be found at path : 'RDS:\RDSConfiguration\Connections\RDP-Tcp\SessionTimeLimitSettings'

Change directory to above location.

Say you have to set the IdleSessionLimit of 1 hour (3600000 millisecs).

The following snippet should do it for you :

# if 'TimeLimitPolicy' is 0(Server Override), Just set the IdleSessionLimit

Set-Item IdleSessionLimit 3600000

# if 'TimeLimitPolicy' is 1(User setting), Set policy to Server override and provide timelimit values

Set-Item TimeLimitPolicy 0 -IdleSessionLimit 3600000 -ActiveSessionLimit 0 -DisconnectedSessionLimit 0

For more information on these items check their description.

Example: Get-Item TimeLimitPolicy | Format-List

re: Managing Remote Desktop services (aka Terminal services) using Windows PowerShell

Rajesh B R — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:08:12 GMT

@ Jason:

If the threshold idle time is fixed, above snippet would do. Otherwise we donot currently support the following:

1. Listing the current TS sessions

2. Log-off sessions on need basis or with variable threshold idle time

re: Managing Remote Desktop services (aka Terminal services) using Windows PowerShell

Rajesh B R — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:37:40 GMT

Terminal services tools can be used with PowerShell to accomplish the above mentioned tasks.

For more details on these tools visit : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc776289.aspx

PowerShell Provider for Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services)

Ying Li(MVP) at myITforum.com — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:00:52 GMT

In case you haven't noticed, Microsoft renamed Terminal Services as Remote Desktop Services from

re: Managing Remote Desktop services (aka Terminal services) using Windows PowerShell

Harrison — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:47:08 GMT

On Windows Server 2008 R2, if I just install the Remote Desktop Virtualization role, I don't get the "Remote Desktop Services PowerShell". Is it by design?

re: Managing Remote Desktop services (aka Terminal services) using Windows PowerShell

Michal Talaga — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:32:41 GMT

Same problem here, No powershell where it should be thought I see the provider is installed when i run powershell modules from start menu->somewhere

re: Managing Remote Desktop services (aka Terminal services) using Windows PowerShell

Michal Talaga — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:37:30 GMT

OK figured out i can just launch the powershell as mentioned before and do cd RDS: