Here comes a real softball for your sysadmins from a lowly programmer:
We have a machine with Terminal Services enabled so our clients can preview the next version of our product. I want to turn off Terminal Services for our users while I remote into the machine and perform an upgrade.
How do I turn off Terminal Services access for all users except Administrator? (I'm using Windows Server 2003.)
Bonus: Is there a way I can leave a polite rejection message if they try to connect while I'm performing the upgrade?
Thanks!
Best Answer
This is setup by default. You would need to make sure those users that should be allowed in are in the administrators or "remote desktop users" group to allow access. If they must be admins you can take out that group and specify only certain users.
Right click my computer, manage, click "remote" tab, click "enable remote desktop on this computer", click "select remote users"
I don't know a way to change the "you don't have access to term in" message.