Windows Server® 2008 Terminal Services Resource Kit

Monitoring and Ending User Sessions

Before you start monitoring and ending sessions in Terminal Services Manager, you should recognize the different session types you will see and what they are for. Four types of sessions appear in Terminal Services Manager:

• Console. Session supporting someone logged on locally

• RDP-Tcp. Remote RDP session

• Services. Session used by server services

• Listener. Session listening for incoming connection requests

For our purposes, you’re going to work most often with the RDP-Tcp sessions.

Switching Between Sessions

Let’s say you have logged onto your Windows Vista or Windows XP desktop via RDP with your domain credentials so that you can work on that computer from a remote location. When you do so, the console session switches ...