Enable / Disable Multiple RDP Sessions in Windows 2012 to Latest

By default, Windows servers allow a single Remote Desktop session. If only one session is available and you take over another person’s live session, you may enable multiple RDP sessions. This article describes the process for enabling and disabling multiple sessions.

 

Whenever we install Windows host on AWS Cloud, we get 2 Administrative logins by default. But only 2 logins cannot be enough for a large enterprise, So you will need more than that. To enable multiple, you need to go to Server Manager first. Select Add Roles for Installing the Remote Desktop Services Role. After installing the role, reboot the instance for changes to take effect.

 

Enable Multiple RDP Sessions

1. Log into the server using Remote Desktop.
2. Open the start screen (press the Windows key) and type gpedit.msc and open it
3. Go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host > Connections.
4. Set Restrict Remote Desktop Services user to a single Remote Desktop Services session to Disabled.
5. Double-click the Limit number of connections and set the RD Maximum Connections allowed to 2.
6. Go to Start > in the search/run box type regedit
7. Or Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server.
8. Now, locate the fSingleSessionPerUser value > Set it to 0 (Multiple sessions allowed)

 

Disable Multiple RDP Sessions

1. Log into the server using Remote Desktop.
2. Open the start menu and type ‘gpedit.msc‘ and open it
3. Go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host > Connections.
4. Set Restrict Remote Desktop Services user to a single Remote Desktop Services session to Enabled.