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anthony
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Posted - 03/01/2012 : 4:35:32 PM

We have an aging Terminal Server running 2003 R2. It serves about 20 people or so and there is one app in particular that when it crashes, it begins a cascading effect and starts to crash for other users on the terminal server as well.

A re-boot is the best option at this point because the vendor is not cooperating. We would like to automate a re-boot at a given time each night. But we would like to make sure there are no "active" sessions before we do it.

Is there a way to have a script check to see if there are no "non-idle" sessions, and re-boot if there are not?

I know I could just create a BAT file that says "shutdown -r" but I would like to NOT kick active users if they are working late or off hours.

This is only to get us through about 30-60 days until we move them off to VDI.

Thanks,

anthony

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Rambler
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Posted - 03/01/2012 : 5:04:04 PM

You could for example:
a) do a "query session" and process that output to determine if you can or can't reboot
b) install Powershell and use the Terminal Services module from Shay Levy (http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/PSTerminalServices) to achieve the same thing more elegantly

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