Remote Desktop - 2008 - limited to 2 sessions including console session?

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Hello,

I'm testing out windows server 2008. In 2003 - I get two remote sessions
in addition to the user at the console/physical keyboard and video session.
So I could effectively have 3 people all using the server simultaneously.
With 2008, I seem to be able to have only 2 people on as administrator - one
of them at the physical server keyboard and one remote or two remotes but no
physical access. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks
 
Re: Remote Desktop - 2008 - limited to 2 sessions including console session?

No, this is by design.
In both Windows 2003 and 2008, you have 2 remote administrative
sessions, free of licensing requirements.
In Windows 2003, you also could connect remotely to session 0 (the
console session), because this was sometimes necessary to manage
services. In Windows 2008, session 0 is no longer an interactive
session, it is exclusively used for services, and thus there is no
longer any need (nor possibility) to connect to it.

Documented here:

947723 - Changes to remote administration in Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=947723

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"boe" <boe_d@hotmail.com> wrote on 30 jun 2008 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> Hello,
>
> I'm testing out windows server 2008. In 2003 - I get two
> remote sessions in addition to the user at the console/physical
> keyboard and video session. So I could effectively have 3 people
> all using the server simultaneously. With 2008, I seem to be
> able to have only 2 people on as administrator - one of them at
> the physical server keyboard and one remote or two remotes but
> no physical access. Am I doing something wrong?
>
> Thanks
 
Re: Remote Desktop - 2008 - limited to 2 sessions including console session?

Thanks. I guess then I wish they had included 3 licenses so it had the
same functionality as the old 2003 server :)

"Vera Noest [MVP]" <vera.noest@remove-this.hem.utfors.se> wrote in message
news:Xns9ACEE969E40FEveranoesthemutforsse@207.46.248.16...
> No, this is by design.
> In both Windows 2003 and 2008, you have 2 remote administrative
> sessions, free of licensing requirements.
> In Windows 2003, you also could connect remotely to session 0 (the
> console session), because this was sometimes necessary to manage
> services. In Windows 2008, session 0 is no longer an interactive
> session, it is exclusively used for services, and thus there is no
> longer any need (nor possibility) to connect to it.
>
> Documented here:
>
> 947723 - Changes to remote administration in Windows Server 2008
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=947723
>
> _________________________________________________________
> Vera Noest
> MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
> TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
> ___ please respond in newsgroup, NOT by private email ___
>
> "boe" <boe_d@hotmail.com> wrote on 30 jun 2008 in
> microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm testing out windows server 2008. In 2003 - I get two
>> remote sessions in addition to the user at the console/physical
>> keyboard and video session. So I could effectively have 3 people
>> all using the server simultaneously. With 2008, I seem to be
>> able to have only 2 people on as administrator - one of them at
>> the physical server keyboard and one remote or two remotes but
>> no physical access. Am I doing something wrong?
>>
>> Thanks
 
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