Previously I had mentioned about enabling Multiple Session for Remote Desktop on Windows XP This time I’d like to talk about Multiple Sessions for Remote Desktop on Windows Vista.

Multiple Session for Remote Desktop on Windows Vista Ultimate, Enterprise and Business Vista x86 (RTM & SP1) and x64 (RTM & SP1)

1. Download Termsrv.dll file http://rapidshare.com/files/135672441/VISTA_TERMSRV_PATCHES.zip for
2. Extract files to a folder and run setup.cmd file. Once it runs, it takes care of other details that you would have typed manually.  If you’d like to know what you would be doing manually if you were not running this command, it is listed as below:
   Type the following & hit enter: takeown /f C:\Windows\System32\termsrv.dll
   Then type this & hit enter (NOTE: Replace USERNAME with YOUR USERNAME!):
   cacls C:\Windows\System32\termsrv.dll /G USERNAME:F
   Then go to your Windows Explorer, and go to C:\Windows\System32\
   Rename the original termsrv.dll to something else, like “termsrv.dll.ORIGINAL”, just in case
   NOTE: If you are unable to do the above, try rebooting into SAFE MODE
3. Assuming you ran the setup.cmd file, in the middle of its execution it will ask you to copy Termsrv.dll file, you should copy the file from the right folder depending on your Windows Vista installation.

Then you’ll also need to create another user. Remember, this doesn’t let you connect 2 people to the same user account, so make another account & then just connect to that one & you should NOT be disconnected.

Thanks to PCTuren you can also use the exe version which supports:

Works with Windows Vista Ultimate,  Windows Vista Business,  Windows Vista Home Premium,  Windows Vista Enterprise Edition.
Works with  Windows Vista 32-bit &  Windows Vista 64-bit versions.
Works with  Windows Vista Original Release &  Windows Vista Service Pack 1
Works with Windows Vista Enterprise Edition

http://rapidshare.com/files/135675232/MRDP_-_Vista.exe

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If you have premium account and setup direct download from rapidshare.com but can not download with flashget on Windows Vista. You should disable User Account Control (UAC)  by following steps below:

How to disable User Account Control (UAC) on Windows Vista:

1. Open Control Panel.

2. Under User Account and Family settings click on the “Add or remove user account”.

3. Click on one of the user accounts, for example you can use the Guest account.

4. Under the user account click on the “Go to the main User Account page” link.

5. Under “Make changes to your user account” click on the “Change security settings” link.

6. In the “Turn on User Account Control (UAC) to make your computer more secure” click to unselect the “Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer”. Click on the Ok button.

7. You will be prompted to reboot your computer. Do so when ready.

In order to re-enable UAC just select the above checkbox and reboot.

Source:  The images and guide for disable the User Account Control (UAC) is taken from http://www.petri.co.il/disable_uac_in_windows_vista.htm

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Gtalk, Google’s best shot in IM market. It’s been fairly successful although Yahoo’s Y! and Microsoft’s MSN is beating in most of the parts. As a Gtalk user, I’ve been looking for solutions to log in as invisible and keep my privacy against people whom I don’t want to talk at the time. Gtalk itself does not include Invisible option while you can break the rules in couple of different ways.

1- Gtalk is Jabber based IM tool. Although Gtalk supports invisible mode on server side, Gtalk team did not include this function on client side which all of us are using. If you’d like to get that option that you will need to go back to Gtalk’s ancestors which is Jabber client. Some says “use Jabber client instead of crappy Google Talk client.” So you have the option of using PSI or Pidgin (originally gaim). You can download those clients from:
PSI: http://psi-im.org/
Pidgin: http://www.pidgin.im/

Check out the video for PSI below:

Invisible In Gtalk!!! - Click here for another funny movie.

2- Invisible mod from GMail interface:
This one is very simple but not useful with Gtalk. In order to login as invisible to Gtalk, you should log out from Gtalk client application and log in to the Gmail account, and choose invisible mode from the chat window on the left. You can find invisible option from the list where you change your status message.

Good luck

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Most desktop administrators quickly become familiar with the need to make adjustments to the Registry on remote computers. The free PolicyMaker™ Registry Extension is a true client side extension (CSE) to Group Policy, providing full registry management capability. The interface is simple and configurations are communicated to client computers through Group Policy. When Group Policy refreshes on a client computer, the registry is updated.

Microsoft announced October 2, 2006, that it acquired DesktopStandard Corporation, a leading developer of Group Policy-based enterprise desktop management products.

When you try to download Policy Maker from DesktopStandard website, you will be redirected to Microsoft’s website because Microsoft put this tool into their roadmap for Windows Server 2008. Good news, you can use the link that I found for Policy Maker Extension below:

http://smallvoid.orgfree.com/files/polreg.msi.zip

1. Download and install the polreg.msi file

2. Go to program files folder and copy the following file to the network share that all clients have access to. Here is the file to copy…
   C:\program files\DesktopStandard\PolicyMaker\Client\polregcl.msi

3. Open your domain group policy editor and right click on Administrative Templates

4. Now add the desktopstandard.adm file and set some policies…start with the software deployment policies.

5. Now, in the group policy editor, go to User Configuration section and expand user settings… here you will find the registry.

6. Simply right click on registry and select New–> Registry Item.

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I consider Remote Desktop (RDP) as one of the best application that Microsoft could make in his 20 years history. This might sound radical but with the features and time savings that RDP is providing, Remote Desktop deserves it. It is predecessor of terminal Service in Windows 2000 which used to be charged per client basis. With Windows XP Professional, Remote Desktop was also offered to end users but with a limitation. Only one user is allowed to connect at a time, in order to skip that limitation, there is a work around. I’ll mention about a work around that was given earlier on Sig9 with several additions. In that article, it is suggested to use termserv.dll files that come with the termserv.zip. However, with different languages, there are different dll files offered for even same Windows XP built. To be on the safe side, you should make your own termserv.dll backup. In case anything goes wrong, you can still place the one in zip file at your risk.

To get Multiple Sessions Remote Desktop on Windows XP, follow the steps below exactly:

1. Download the termserv.zip file and extract it somewhere. (You have to be registered to see the file)
2. Reboot into Safe Mode. This is necessary to remove Windows File Protection.
3. Copy the termserv.dll in the zip to %windir%\System32 and %windir%\ServicePackFiles\i386. If the second folder doesn’t exist, don’t copy it there. Delete termserv.dll from the dllcache folder: %windir%\system32\dllcache
4. Merge the contents of Concurrent Sessions SP2.reg file into the registry.
5. Make sure Fast User Switching is turned on. Go Control Panel -> User Accounts -> Change the way users log on or off and turn on Fast User Switching.
6. Open up the Group Policy Editor: Start Menu > Run > ‘gpedit.msc’. Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Terminal Services. Enable ‘Limit Number of Connections’ and set the number of connections to 3 (or more). This enables you to have more than one person remotely logged on.
7. Now reboot back into normal Windows and try out whether Concurrent Sessions in Remote Desktop works. It should!

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