GPO Question about Disconnects

[Guest Jason]

Hello,

 

I am having an issue with old profiles being left on the Terminal Servers. I

have enabled, "Delete cached copies of roaming profiles" on all servers. This

policy works great except for when users disconnect from there sessions. As a

result, I have a ton of profiles that I have to run utilities to cleanup.

 

Current Sessions Policies enabled:

Set Time Limit for disconnected sessions

Sets a time limit for active but idle Terminal Services sessions

 

I wanted to know if anyone ever used the policy, "Terminate sessions when

the time limits are reached". This policy will log users off gracefully

instead of hard resets.

 

The only thing that concerns with this policy is it states "Terminal

Services will terminate a session (that is, the user is logged off and the

session is deleted from the server) after time limits for active or idle

sessions are reached."

 

Does this statement mean even if I am competely active for 3 hours, that the

GPO will still log off the session or just idle sessions? I am looking to

logout only idle sessions. Thanks

[Guest Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: GPO Question about Disconnects

 

No, active sessions will not be ended.

There's another GPO setting for active sessions.

 

Note that this method can cause loss of unsaved data.

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=?Utf-8?B?SmFzb24=?= <Jason@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on 21

apr 2008 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> Hello,

>

> I am having an issue with old profiles being left on the

> Terminal Servers. I have enabled, "Delete cached copies of

> roaming profiles" on all servers. This policy works great except

> for when users disconnect from there sessions. As a result, I

> have a ton of profiles that I have to run utilities to cleanup.

>

> Current Sessions Policies enabled:

> Set Time Limit for disconnected sessions

> Sets a time limit for active but idle Terminal Services sessions

>

> I wanted to know if anyone ever used the policy, "Terminate

> sessions when the time limits are reached". This policy will log

> users off gracefully instead of hard resets.

>

> The only thing that concerns with this policy is it states

> "Terminal Services will terminate a session (that is, the user

> is logged off and the session is deleted from the server) after

> time limits for active or idle sessions are reached."

>

> Does this statement mean even if I am competely active for 3

> hours, that the GPO will still log off the session or just idle

> sessions? I am looking to logout only idle sessions. Thanks