Rebooting your term boxes

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What is the best solution in rebooting your terminal server box at night. I
have a schedule setup for them with TSSHUTDN but the servers will hangup from
time to time on the shutdown. And this causes the terminal server on the
boxes not to work. Me users are unable to connect to the server in the A.M
until the boxes are rebooted manual.
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Awash
 
Re: Rebooting your term boxes

Then something is not good setup on servers. Why do you need to reboot
them?
I am only rebooting manually when new patches are applied from MS auto
update.
Servers will not hang if you reboot them manually, or you're hard reboot
them when reboot process hangs?

There are third party applications that you can use to schedule server
reboot. Search for them over google.


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Frane Borozan
Terminal Services and Citrix Presentation Server user logging
http://www.terminalserviceslog.com
 
Re: Rebooting your term boxes

We notice that the term server start running slow and not releasing some of
the resources when user disconnect from them. That why I set a schedule up to
reboot three time a week.
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Awash


"Frane" wrote:

> Then something is not good setup on servers. Why do you need to reboot
> them?
> I am only rebooting manually when new patches are applied from MS auto
> update.
> Servers will not hang if you reboot them manually, or you're hard reboot
> them when reboot process hangs?
>
> There are third party applications that you can use to schedule server
> reboot. Search for them over google.
>
>
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> ____________________________________
> Frane Borozan
> Terminal Services and Citrix Presentation Server user logging
> http://www.terminalserviceslog.com
>
 
Re: Rebooting your term boxes

On disconnect all programs are running in background and they are consuming
memory.
Maybe you can try to log off session after one or two hours of inactivity?
This way resources will be released.



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Frane Borozan
Terminal Services and Citrix Presentation Server user logging
http://www.terminalserviceslog.com
 
Re: Rebooting your term boxes

Depending on the applications that users are running on the TS, the
server *can* suffer from memory leakage. If this has been diagnosed
to happen, rebooting the server is good practice.
This used to be an absolute necessity when few applications were TS-
aware, and it is still necessary nowadays with some applications.

Awash, which OS and SP version you are running?

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Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
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Frane <frane.borozan@gmail. remove com> wrote on 02 maj 2008 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> On disconnect all programs are running in background and they
> are consuming memory.
> Maybe you can try to log off session after one or two hours of
> inactivity? This way resources will be released.
 
Re: Rebooting your term boxes

AWash wrote:
> What is the best solution in rebooting your terminal server box at night. I
> have a schedule setup for them with TSSHUTDN but the servers will hangup from
> time to time on the shutdown. And this causes the terminal server on the
> boxes not to work. Me users are unable to connect to the server in the A.M
> until the boxes are rebooted manual.

This is exactly why I am adamantly opposed to rebooting server remotely
unless absolutely necessary. It used to be mandatory with the older
Citrix MetaFrame servers to reboot on a regular basis, but it really
shouldn't be that necessary.

You first need to find out why the systems are slowing down and need
rebooting.You also should look at the event logs to see if there are any
clues as to why the server's shut down is hanging. This is a potentially
fatal situation since you then have to do an improper shut down and
there's always the possibility of it not coming back...

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Regards,
Hank Arnold
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Directory Services
 
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