Monday, September 14, 2009

Locked remote desktop sessions

So I'm home playing in my geek sandbox and wouldn't you believe it the darn server is locked up with too many open RDP sessions. Since I'm the only one jumping in and out of it I have only my self to blame. One for not setting session limits to auto end sessions after XX hours and two for just being plain lazy.

I would just go warm boot the server but the last ihad a power surge I lost my OS hard drive and half of my great Lisa Ann collecction. So here's a tip to a quick fix if you'd like to remotely solve this remoting issue!?

Open a CMD prompt
(Vista OS) mstsc /v:<hostname or IP> /admin
(XP OS) mstsc /v:<hostname or IP> /console

This command will override the session limit error and get you into the box in question so you do the necessary cleanup.

Holla!

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