Opening 1 copy of an application in Terminal Services

[Guest Marka]

Hi All

 

Question - is there any way to limit the number of copies of a program a

user can open?

 

Background: Users are clicking Navision icon more than once and therefore

opening multiple copies of it, putting a strain on the server

 

Any advice/solution much appreciated

 

Mark

[Guest Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: Opening 1 copy of an application in Terminal Services

 

This isn't a native feature, so you would have to do some scripting.

In its simplest form, you could start the program from a command

file, something like this (example with Internet Explorer, change to

Navision).

Watch out for wrapped lines in the line starting with "for /f"!

 

@Echo Off

Set ExeFile=iexplore.exe

Set ExePath=%ProgramFiles%\Internet Explorer

 

REM ** Check if this user already runs this process

for /f %%j in ('qprocess %username% ^| find /i "%ExeFile%"') do goto

found

REM ** It's not running. Fire it up!

start "Internet Explorer" /B "%ExePath%\%ExeFile%"

exit

 

:found

REM ** It's already active. Tell the user

echo %ExeFile% is already running!

echo Please do not click the icon multiple times!

REM ** Give the user a chance to read the message and quit

pause

exit

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Vera Noest

MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net

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=?Utf-8?B?TWFya2E=?= <Marka@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on 30

okt 2007 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> Hi All

>

> Question - is there any way to limit the number of copies of a

> program a user can open?

>

> Background: Users are clicking Navision icon more than once and

> therefore opening multiple copies of it, putting a strain on the

> server

>

> Any advice/solution much appreciated

>

> Mark