Re: Restarting a server using Terminal Services...Help!

For future reference, this problem is one of the many reasons I have
LogMeIn on all of my servers. LogMeIn will connect long before RDP will in
the boot process, and has saved me from the very problem specified here.

I just ran into another problem that LogMeIn solved. I connected to a
client's payroll server and it immediately sensed a terminal session and
closed a payroll application with an error about using it in a TS session.
It happens using /console switch.

Something to consider as well is installing an IP KVM switch that gives you
console access via the Internet. A combination I use is an IP KVM switch
connected to the same brand's 8-port KVM switch (cheaper than buying their
8-port IP KVM switch). The IP KVM has a serial port on it that can be used
to Telnet into other equipment (mine goes to my IP power switch that only
has Telnet and no web GUI). It also has a USB port that allows one to
connect a USB hard drive that can be made to appear as a floppy disk, hard
drive, or CDROM. One can literally load an OS DVD onto the USB hard drive,
along with RAID drivers, and do a complete server build remotely.

Gregg Hill




"Vera Noest [MVP]" <vera.noest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Xns9A2FD7A6987BEveranoesthemutforsse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Yes, the same thing has happened to me several times, rdp shuts
down but nothing else. Note that console or normal rdp session
doesn't make a difference, it happens randomly on both.

Sometimes I have been able to remotely shutdown the server with the
shutdown command from another server.

You might want to apply this post-SP2 hotfix to avoid the problem
in the future:

930045 - A Windows Server 2003-based computer stops responding when
you shut down the computer in a remote console session
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=930045
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Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
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=?Utf-8?B?SkY=?= <JF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 24 jan
2008 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

Ok, this issue has happened to me twice now. Both are the same
type of Windows Servers - AD controller with Fax software
installed. Both are in different offices in different domains.

I connected using RDP, not connecting to the console. When I
tried to restart the server, it disconnected my terminal
session, logged the following event in the sys log: 1074 "The
process svchost.exe has initiated the restart of computer ****
on behalf of NT Authority\System.... The system never restarted
and now I can't reconnect with remote desktop. Problem is, this
system is in another office without an onsite tech support
person. The system is up and all services are working. I can
connect with Computer Management and see what's going on, but I
can't connect to the system and control it! When this happened
in my own office, I was able to run upstairs and work right on
the console, restart the server and everything was fine.

The whole reason I didn't connect to the console is because
explorer.exe crashed, so I just had a blue backgroud. I wasn't
able to log that session out and couldn't get a real desktop
back. This is why I logged in without connecting to the console
to restart. HELP!

Thanks,
Joel


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