View Other TS Session

[Lurch]

I ran into a problem this weekend. I was disconnected from my TS session by
a cable modem problem. I was running a large copy job. The job remained
running but i had no way to connect to it to view its progress. How can i
connect to other TS sessions on the server to view what is going on?

 

[Olof Lagerkvist]

I ran into a problem this weekend. I was disconnected from my TS session by
a cable modem problem. I was running a large copy job. The job remained
running but i had no way to connect to it to view its progress. How can i
connect to other TS sessions on the server to view what is going on?

The terminal server probably did not detect properly that the session
was disconnected.

You can access it using Terminal Services Administrator, tsadmin.exe.
Right-click on the lost session and select "connect".

 

[Lurch]

The Connect and Disconnect options were grayed out.

 

[Rajneesh Mahajan \(MSFT\)]

When you say there is no way to connect to it, do you mean you can't login
to that machine or do you mean that you are going to a different session on
that machine.

You can use command line utility tscon to connect to a session. Following KB
articles explains how to use it. If you use this command from local machine
its as simple as "tscon <session id>"

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;243202

From that artcile:

Tscon.exe attaches a user session to a previously connected Terminal Server
session.

Syntax for Tscon.exe:

TSCON [sessionid | sessionname] [/SERVER:servername] [/DEST:sessionname]
[/PASSWORDw] [/V]

sessionid The ID of the session.
sessionname The name of the session.
/SERVER:servername The name of the Terminal Server to connect to (default
is current).
/DEST:sessionname Connect the session to destination sessionname.
/PASSWORDw Password of user owning identified session.
/v Displays information about the actions performed.

Example: tscon 3 /server:cprsrv02 /dest:rdp-tcp#3 /password:* /v

 

[Lurch]

Perfect. That's extactly what i needed. Thank You!

When you say there is no way to connect to it, do you mean you can't login
to that machine or do you mean that you are going to a different session on
that machine.

You can use command line utility tscon to connect to a session. Following KB
articles explains how to use it. If you use this command from local machine
its as simple as "tscon <session id>"

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;243202

From that artcile:

Tscon.exe attaches a user session to a previously connected Terminal Server
session.

Syntax for Tscon.exe:

TSCON [sessionid | sessionname] [/SERVER:servername] [/DEST:sessionname]
[/PASSWORDw] [/V]

sessionid The ID of the session.
sessionname The name of the session.
/SERVER:servername The name of the Terminal Server to connect to (default
is current).
/DEST:sessionname Connect the session to destination sessionname.
/PASSWORDw Password of user owning identified session.
/v Displays information about the actions performed.

Example: tscon 3 /server:cprsrv02 /dest:rdp-tcp#3 /password:* /v

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The Connect and Disconnect options were grayed out.


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