XP Terminal Services Session Idle Disconnect

[MP]

I use mstsc to connect from my laptop back to my office desktop. A recent
change in our desktop image is now causing the desktop session to terminate
all processes left running 15 minutes after I disconnect. My intent is to
keep those processes running so I can reconnect to them later. This worked
until the recent change in our standard windows image.

Our windows install folks tell me there is a registry change in
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal
Server\DefaultUserConfiguration that will fix this, but they can't say just
exactly what the change should be. So far I haven't been able to find the
right change to make.

Any pointers to how to keep this idle disconnect from occuring will be
greatly appreciated.

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

There are group policies that may govern this, ie. idle session timeouts.

http://tinyurl.com/5l3tbt

Additionally look at this spread sheet that maps group policies to registry
settings.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...9b-3328-4350-ade1-c0d9289f09ef&DisplayLang=en

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[MP]

Perhaps I'm missing something, but I don't see how this applies to using
mstsc to RDP into another workstation. This isn't a server running a full
blown copy of Terminal Services. Can you help me understand how the URLs you
provided apply?

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

Look at the group policies on the workstation your remotely accessing with
RDC.

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