How to limit the number of remote desktop connections per user (Win 2008)

remote desktopuser-managementwindows-server-2008

When I remote desktop into my server I would like to be connected to an existing session or be prevented from connecting as that user so I don't have multiple unknown sessions floating around.

I have set inactive session to expire after 30 minutes but I am not willing to end session on disconnect.

Is there a way to specify a limit per user?

Thanks.

Best Answer

On Server 2008 R2, you can go to "Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration" (called Terminal Server Configuration on older versions of Windows) and you can set the 'Restrict each user to a single session'. This is the only limit that I know of in Terminal Services/RDP.