How to restart terminal services on 2003 sp2 server?

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Rocko Saw

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after one of the MS security patchs cycles, the ability to stop or restart
the terminal servcies has been 'blocked' or prevented. we tired using,
pstools, hyena, net stop, mmc /a, etc and even logged on as local admin but
the only way now to restart that service is to reboot the whole server. I'm
guessing its got to do with some registery entry the prevents manual restart
of the termservices service. I also been looking in GPO but can't find any
entries that locks these services down.

this is the RDP admin console using termservices.

any ideas on how to un-lock this setting to allow remote restart of these
services?
 
Re: How to restart terminal services on 2003 sp2 server?

This is by design. It has never been possible to restart the
Terminal Services service, as documented here.

278657 - Terminal Services Cannot Be Manipulated
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=278657

In Windows Server 2008, it is restartable.

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Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
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=?Utf-8?B?Um9ja28gU2F3?= <RockoSaw@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote on 02 maj 2008:

> after one of the MS security patchs cycles, the ability to stop
> or restart the terminal servcies has been 'blocked' or
> prevented. we tired using, pstools, hyena, net stop, mmc /a,
> etc and even logged on as local admin but the only way now to
> restart that service is to reboot the whole server. I'm
> guessing its got to do with some registery entry the prevents
> manual restart of the termservices service. I also been looking
> in GPO but can't find any entries that locks these services
> down.
>
> this is the RDP admin console using termservices.
>
> any ideas on how to un-lock this setting to allow remote restart
> of these services?
 
Re: How to restart terminal services on 2003 sp2 server?

Rocko Saw wrote:
> after one of the MS security patchs cycles, the ability to stop or restart
> the terminal servcies has been 'blocked' or prevented. we tired using,
> pstools, hyena, net stop, mmc /a, etc and even logged on as local admin but
> the only way now to restart that service is to reboot the whole server. I'm
> guessing its got to do with some registery entry the prevents manual restart
> of the termservices service. I also been looking in GPO but can't find any
> entries that locks these services down.
>
> this is the RDP admin console using termservices.
>
> any ideas on how to un-lock this setting to allow remote restart of these
> services?

SOP. It's been like that forever. Even on my W2K servers, I have to set
the status to "manual" or "disabled" and reboot. Must do the opposite
when I want it back on....

BTW, if you *could* stop the TS service, how would you be able to
continue to use RDP??? ;-)

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Regards,
Hank Arnold
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Directory Services
 
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