How can I explicitly NOT login to console session?

Question

A co-worker and I are both remotely logging into a server as the same administrative user. Is there a way to force mstsc to NOT use the console session? In other words, I'd like to login as the administrative user WITHOUT stealing my co-worker's console session.

Preemptive strike - I know it would be better to just use 2 accounts, but this is a legacy system, and the customer does not want to issue more administrative accounts (nor do they want to fudge w/ user account settings on our existing non-admin accounts).

Answer 1

You have ensure the RDP server is set to allow a user to have more than one session.

To do this, check group polices; specifically Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Terminal Services > "Restrict Terminal Services users to a single remote session"

Also ensure you're not using the /admin switch when launching the RDP client (MSTSC.exe).