Stop Applications detecting TS Environment

[yusuf@yeganeh.co.uk]

Hi all,

Quick question as I cant find any info on this.

Is there any way in which you can prevent a/any program detecting it's
in a Terminal Server environment? Can't be specific at this stage but
it would be extremely helpful to know if say there are only a few
places within the OS that the program may look which could possibly be
worked around?!

Many thanks
yus

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: Stop Applications detecting TS Environment

Let me guess: you have a program which refuses to start because it
detects that it is running in a TS environment, correct?

There are numerous ways for an application to find that out, the
recommended technique is by calling the GetSystemMetrics()
function, which returns TRUE if the application is running in a
remote session and FALSE if the application is running on the
console.

I don't think you can do much about that. Your best bet is to
contact the application vendor / developer and try to solve the
issue with them.
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Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
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yusuf@yeganeh.co.uk wrote on 14 jul 2007 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> Hi all,
>
> Quick question as I cant find any info on this.
>
> Is there any way in which you can prevent a/any program
> detecting it's in a Terminal Server environment? Can't be
> specific at this stage but it would be extremely helpful to know
> if say there are only a few places within the OS that the
> program may look which could possibly be worked around?!
>
> Many thanks
> yus