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Without knowing more about how your OUs are structured and which servers are experiencing this issue, I can only suggest you try disabling the time limits on the servers themselves via <b>Administrative Tools</b> &gt;&nbsp;<b>Remote Desktop Services</b> &gt;&nbsp;<b>Remote Desktop Host Configuration</b> &gt;&nbsp;right click on<b> RDP-Tcp</b> in the <i>Connections</i> box &gt;&nbsp;<b>Properties</b> &gt;&nbsp;<b>Sessions </b>tab &gt;&nbsp;make sure <b>End a disconnected session</b> is set to <b>Never</b><br />
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It's probably best you separate out these settings into a new policy, that way you can check using RSoP or gpresult to see whether the policy is applying or not. If you need a hand with RSoP you can do some reading here: <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc736424(v=ws.10).aspx" rel="ugc">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc736424(v=ws.10).aspx</a>
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Alicia,<br />
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Thanks for the recommendation. &nbsp;This is all on the local lan and applies to all our servers using a direct RDT Connection. I setup the group policy not to time out. All the workstations will not time out, its just the servers.<br />
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thanks<br />
Steve
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Our problem was caused by a known issue with the the settings on the particular brand of firewall we had, but that's not the only cause of that type of issue. &nbsp; &nbsp;I would still give the KeepAliveEnable setting a try, do you have a test server you could try it out on?
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The remote desktop connection in our domain servers disconnect sessions after a few minutes in inactivity. <br />
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I disabled these options on the default domain controllers and default domain policy:<br />
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Computer Configuration\Policies\Adm<wbr />inistrativ<wbr />e Templates\Windows Components\Remote Desktop Services\Remote Desktop Session Host\Session Time Limits <br />
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User Configuration\Policies\Adm<wbr />inistrativ<wbr />e Templates\Windows Components\Remote Desktop Services\Remote Desktop Session Host\Session Time Limits<br />
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The remote desktop connection in our domain servers disconnect sessions after a few minutes in inactivity. 

I disabled these options on the default domain controllers and default domain policy:

Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Remote Desktop Services\Remote Desktop Session Host\Session Time Limits 

User Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Remote Desktop Services\Remote Desktop Session Host\Session Time Limits

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