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Need help defining Terminal Services Console

Hi,

I am remotely supporting several applications that are hosted on VM servers. The primary connection tool is terminal serves console. The string I use is:
%windir%\system32\mstsc.exe -v:servername console
This works great. But the local IT administrator continues to logon (sometimes with the correct profile and sometimes no) without specifying console. This completely messes up the application because of the same services and applications running in multiple sessions.

I need help explaining this problem. My choice of words and explanation is just not working. Can someone help me find the correct words or white pages that I can reference?

Thanks
MC

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The correct process is to use a local admin profile logging onto the server as This Computer. This profile is not part of the domain. For the app to work correctly there are services that start automatically and there are applications that are manually started from the desktop. Additionally, there are several DCOM settings that are set to only work with the local admin profile. After logging on and manually starting the programs, the server is in the correct state. At this point, you do not logoff the server but just close the session. By using the Console setting, I or the local administrator is able to access the same desktop where the programs are running.

The local administrator is logging on with the correct profile most of the time, but he never uses the console setting. Then there are other times that he logs on using his regular administrator profile and thinks that because it is an all powerful profile that it supersedes any rights that the local admin profile have.

Thanks
MC

ashishsa

so are we looking for disabling the console session for a particular admin so that he logs on only to his profile but never to the console? Sorry If I didn't get the requirement correctly.