Running spacific program on connection - hangs on exit

[Guest]

Hi,
I have a number of sessions which run an RDP connection with 'start a
specific program' set up both on the users properties in local users and
computers and on the client RDP connector.
Most of them work fine however I have just created another one and when I
exit the application the program quits but the session sits with a blue
screen (nothing in it) and does not quit the RDP session. I have made the use
an admin and no different - I have seen other people on the net with the same
issue but no fixes - can anyone help?

Thanks

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

From the FAQ on http://ts.veranoest.net :

Q. My session doesn't logoff when I quit my starting application

A. If you define a Starting application, either in Terminal
Services Configuration, a GPO or in your RDP client, your session
should be automatically logged off when you quit the application.
Sometimes, this doesn't happen and you are left with a session
which only shows the desktop background, without the possibility to
log off the session manually. The cause for this problem is a
process which is still running in your session, preventing it from
closing and logging off.

To solve the problem, open a second connection to the Terminal
Server and check in Task manager which process is keeping the
session from closing. Some anti-virus applications are known to
cause this behaviour.
If you can't avoid running the process, you can use a work-around
to log off your session.

Create a batch file, containing something like this:
cd <path_to_the_folder_containing_your_application>
start /wait <your_applications_executable>
logoff

Now define this batch file as the starting application.
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Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
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