Killing Hanged Terminal Service Session in Windows Remotely

By | May 20, 2014

If you use Windows Terminal Services for remote desktop access, it’s common to run into this nasty error message from time to time:

The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections.

Step1 : Finding disconnected sessions with qwinsta or query

Open Cmd prompt and type :  qwinsta /server:10.245.220.46       Please replace this 10.245.220.46 with your server IP address

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Now note down the session id of Disconnected session. In our case it is 1.

 

Step 2: Killing disconnected sessions with rwinsta or reset

In CMD prompt type this command :   rwinsta 2 /server:10.245.220.46

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Now you can see that the session is killed by running the qwinsta /server:10.245.220.46   again.

Good Luck

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