Find and Reset RDP Sessions

Posted on October 24, 2011August 11, 2019 by Alan

We have a lot of servers. When I get disconnected, I may leave hanging sessions on those servers which I forget to properly close. Then, after I change the password for my admin account, I sometimes get locked out as a result of what I had open in the now disconnected session. Tracking this down is always annoying and time consuming. When users (including administrators) are terminated, a there is a similar problem — you want to find and reset those sessions, too. ServerSessions.vbs is a script for admins to run to track down sessions on servers and optionally reset them. You can list sessions on all servers in a domain, and reset either all or just disconnected sessions. I have scripts for finding users, too. LocateUsers.vbs finds a user based on their home drive sessions.

2 thoughts on “Find and Reset RDP Sessions”

aiken03 says:

December 28, 2011 at 11:48 AM

Is the ServerSession.vbs script still available? IE can’t download the file… Thanks
Alan says:

January 9, 2012 at 9:20 PM

I fixed the link, thanks.

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All the scripts are saved as .txt files. Newer files have a “View Script” button which will let you save or open a script in notepad. For earlier posts, the easiest way to download with IE is to right click on the link and use “Save Target As”. Rename file from Name_ext.txt to Name.ext.

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2 thoughts on “Find and Reset RDP Sessions”

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