Re: Timeout after 10 minutes

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Have you verified that their sessions really get the status
"Disconnected" in TS Manager?
10 minutes is the default time for the screen saver to kick in, and
it's totally black. Your users wouldn't be the first ones to
confuse their black screens with a disconnected session.

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Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
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James Trogdon <noone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 05 aug 2008:

I have a Windows 2003 R2 Terminal server that is using the Local
User and Groups and NOT Active Directory. I have set the Group
Policy as follows:

Computer Configuration - Administrative templates - Windows
Components - Terminal Services - Sessions

"Set time limit for disconnected sessions" = 1 Day
"Sets a time limit for active Terminal Services sessions" = 1
Day "Sets a time limit for active but idle Terminal Services
sessions" = 1 Day "Terminate session when time limits are
reached" = Enabled

After 10 minutes of idle time the client will disconnect. Their
session is active which is what I want but they shouldn't be
disconnecting. Do I need to restart the Terminal Server service
since I changed the Group Policy? If so, I can I do this
without restarting the entire server? Each user setting in
Computer Management shows the 1 Day time limit but they still
disconnect after 10 minutes of idle time. Thanks for any help
you can give me.

James.
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