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Terminal Services > Admin > Disconnect Sessions - qwinsta / rwinsta
Too many connections active to a Windows terminal server ?
Sessions are left live when users don't log off.
Unlicenced Terminal Services only allows 2 sessions.
Here are the dos commands that can be issued remotely (providing user has appropriate permissions) to resolve this >
-- COMMANDS & SYNTAX
qwinsta - list local sessions
qwinsta /server:servername - list sessions on servername
qwinsta /server:servername /counter - list sessions on servername & provide connection counts
rwinsta sessionname / server:servername - ends session sessionname on server servername
-- LISTING SESSIONS AND DISCONNECTING
-- STEP 1 : Find out session name >
C:\> qwinsta /server:servername /counter
SESSIONNAME USERNAME ID STATE TYPE DEVICE
console 0 Conn wdcon
rdp-tcp 65536 Listen rdpwd
rdp-tcp#80 username 2 Active rdpwd
Total sessions created: 80
Total sessions disconnected: 2
Total sessions reconnected: 2
SESSIONNAME USERNAME ID STATE TYPE DEVICE
console 0 Conn wdcon
rdp-tcp 65536 Listen rdpwd
rdp-tcp#80 username 2 Active rdpwd
Total sessions created: 80
Total sessions disconnected: 2
Total sessions reconnected: 2
-- STEP 2 : Issue command to end that session >
C:\> rwinsta rdp-tcp#81 /server:servername
