Comments on: Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services: Changes of remote administration mode

By: Paul Rawlinson

Paul Rawlinson — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:41:02 +0000

Personally I think not allowing many admins to log on at once promotes best practice in the sense that admins tend to leave sessions connected even when they do not require a connection to the server. Therefore, less admin sessions means better admin best practice.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:12:55 +0000

I have no doubt that there would be more misuse in smaller companies if five admins could logon simultaneously. The question is, however, how many admins in big companies get annoyed every day because of this restriction. It is certainly one major disadvantage compared with other server operating systems such as Linux, for example.

By: Lukas Beeler

Lukas Beeler — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:03:13 +0000

After i’ve seen some (small) customers that used the remote administration feature to run a very limited terminal server (With all users as admins, of course!), i can understand why Microsoft doesn’t allow 5 sessions.