Rebooting your term boxes

[Guest AWash]

What is the best solution in rebooting your terminal server box at night. I

have a schedule setup for them with TSSHUTDN but the servers will hangup from

time to time on the shutdown. And this causes the terminal server on the

boxes not to work. Me users are unable to connect to the server in the A.M

until the boxes are rebooted manual.

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Awash

[Guest Frane]

Re: Rebooting your term boxes

 

Then something is not good setup on servers. Why do you need to reboot

them?

I am only rebooting manually when new patches are applied from MS auto

update.

Servers will not hang if you reboot them manually, or you're hard reboot

them when reboot process hangs?

 

There are third party applications that you can use to schedule server

reboot. Search for them over google.

 

 

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Frane Borozan

Terminal Services and Citrix Presentation Server user logging

http://www.terminalserviceslog.com

[Guest AWash]

Re: Rebooting your term boxes

 

We notice that the term server start running slow and not releasing some of

the resources when user disconnect from them. That why I set a schedule up to

reboot three time a week.

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Awash

 

 

"Frane" wrote:

> Then something is not good setup on servers. Why do you need to reboot

> them?

> I am only rebooting manually when new patches are applied from MS auto

> update.

> Servers will not hang if you reboot them manually, or you're hard reboot

> them when reboot process hangs?

>

> There are third party applications that you can use to schedule server

> reboot. Search for them over google.

>

>

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> Frane Borozan

> Terminal Services and Citrix Presentation Server user logging

> http://www.terminalserviceslog.com

>

[Guest Frane]

Re: Rebooting your term boxes

 

On disconnect all programs are running in background and they are consuming

memory.

Maybe you can try to log off session after one or two hours of inactivity?

This way resources will be released.

 

 

 

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Frane Borozan

Terminal Services and Citrix Presentation Server user logging

http://www.terminalserviceslog.com

[Guest Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: Rebooting your term boxes

 

Depending on the applications that users are running on the TS, the

server *can* suffer from memory leakage. If this has been diagnosed

to happen, rebooting the server is good practice.

This used to be an absolute necessity when few applications were TS-

aware, and it is still necessary nowadays with some applications.

 

Awash, which OS and SP version you are running?

 

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Vera Noest

MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

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

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Frane <frane.borozan@gmail. remove com> wrote on 02 maj 2008 in

microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> On disconnect all programs are running in background and they

> are consuming memory.

> Maybe you can try to log off session after one or two hours of

> inactivity? This way resources will be released.

[Guest Hank Arnold (MVP)]

Re: Rebooting your term boxes

 

AWash wrote:

> What is the best solution in rebooting your terminal server box at night. I

> have a schedule setup for them with TSSHUTDN but the servers will hangup from

> time to time on the shutdown. And this causes the terminal server on the

> boxes not to work. Me users are unable to connect to the server in the A.M

> until the boxes are rebooted manual.

 

This is exactly why I am adamantly opposed to rebooting server remotely

unless absolutely necessary. It used to be mandatory with the older

Citrix MetaFrame servers to reboot on a regular basis, but it really

shouldn't be that necessary.

 

You first need to find out why the systems are slowing down and need

rebooting.You also should look at the event logs to see if there are any

clues as to why the server's shut down is hanging. This is a potentially

fatal situation since you then have to do an improper shut down and

there's always the possibility of it not coming back...

 

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Regards,

Hank Arnold

Microsoft MVP

Windows Server - Directory Services