If you work as a Sysadmin you may have run across the issue where there is no more free Terminal Server “slots” available on a server (As you may know it is possible to connect 3 remote TS sessions against a server, 2 regular and 1 admin/console), this is quite annoying and is often due to one of your colleges forgetting to log out after ending their work on the server (or maybe they had something running that prevented them in disconnecting before the task was done)..
Anyhow, now YOU need to connect via MSTSC and are met with a message stating that TS connections are depleted. You HAVE to get in, so what do you do? You can try the Mstsc /Admin (XP sp3/Vista SP1) or Mstsc /Console (all previous versions) and have it kick whomever is on the console connection (or physically logged on to the server in the server room) – however you may want to be nice and actually have a look and see who is on the server via TS and decide whom to kick.
To do so, goto a command prompt and type;
qwinsta /server:<SERVERNAME>/1
this will produce a list of everyone connected to the server via TS, now you can decide on which connection you want to ‘kill’ and type;
rwinsta /server:<SERVERNAME> <SESSION ID>
For a more detailed description see; http://weblogs.asp.net/owscott/archive/2003/12/30/46776.aspx Tnx to Jesper Thulstrup for pointing me in the right direction.
Although I am more or less up and running again after the Needhost bankruptcy (just 2 months blogposts lost), there are those less fortunate.
One of my very close friends lost his wife’s blog (not popular), but he pointed me to this blogpost that may be of interest to former Needhost customers;
http://blog.surftown.dk/?p=1239
Let’s hope for a small miracle this Christmas 🙂
In the Early days of Christmas 2008 my old hosting provider declared bankruptcy and switched off their servers, or rather switched off their servers and then leaked information about their bankruptcy..
So as a man with a FULL backup of his site cough cough, I went to a new provider and reinstalled my backup.. Hmm, but well as you may see I missed a few months of backup :-/ bummer..
But I will try to restore some of the missing posts from memory and from google cache, and well take a new look at my backup routine 😀
Meanwhile, hope you all had a merry Christmas and wish you a blast of a new year 🙂
Happy holidays.
Mike
Ps. Note the irony in that the last post from my backup actually regarded backup.. Someone sure had it in for me 😉
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