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Event Logged when session stolen.

Hey Experts,

We have an RDS farm which uses a gateway to distribute connections to servers. My question is, is there an event logged for when a session is taken by another login? (i.e. user johnsmith logs in from home stealing the session he left open at work)

If so, is that logged on the server level or gateway level and in which log?

Thanks!

bbao

try this script, the IP address can tell you where a user logs on from.

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/e8c3af96-db10-45b0-88e3-328f087a8700

Dustin Saunders

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But how would I distinguish that it was a stolen session? Wouldn't it look the same if they logged off vs had the session taken over at a different location?

bbao

good question. :)

to be honest i didn't try that script before. if I was you, i would try it and compare the outputs of the two kinds of login.

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Albert Widjaja

Dustin,

Does that script must be executed on the terminal servers or can be executed remotely from our laptop ?

Dustin Saunders

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It can be executed from a PC so long as you can reach the computer in question, but you need to invoke it in a PSSession.

$server = "TestServer123" #define the server to connect to
    $session = New-PSSession -ComputerName $server #Create a new remote PS Session.
    $events = Invoke-Command -Session $session -ScriptBlock {Get-WinEvent -FilterHashTable @{LogName="Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager/Operational"; ID=40}}
    Remove-PSSession $session

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This gives you the object $events which you can dump to a CSV, or do whatever with.

Dustin Saunders

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The event appears to be Event ID 40 from TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager\Operational where reason code is 5.