How can I view active remote connections (RDP) to a Windows server?
How can I view, who is currently connected to a server (Windows 2012) with a remote desktop client? I am myself connected to this server via RDP.
This question offers a solution to get IP addresses with established connections. I would be interested in a list of users or their sessions and when these sessions were active the last time.
You can type "Query User" into a command prompt on the remote machine to get a very quick look
Run the "qwinsta" command on the server, or with the /server:servername switch.
>qwinsta /?
Display information about Remote Desktop Sessions.
QUERY SESSION [sessionname | username | sessionid]
[/SERVER:servername] [/MODE] [/FLOW] [/CONNECT] [/COUNTER] [/VM]
sessionname Identifies the session named sessionname.
username Identifies the session with user username.
sessionid Identifies the session with ID sessionid.
/SERVER:servername The server to be queried (default is current).
/MODE Display current line settings.
/FLOW Display current flow control settings.
/CONNECT Display current connect settings.
/COUNTER Display current Remote Desktop Services counters informati
on.
/VM Display information about sessions within virtual machines
.
You can also reset an RDP session with the "rwinsta" command:
>rwinsta /?
Reset the session subsytem hardware and software to known initial values.
RESET SESSION {sessionname | sessionid} [/SERVER:servername] [/V]
sessionname Identifies the session with name sessionname.
sessionid Identifies the session with ID sessionid.
/SERVER:servername The server containing the session (default is current).
/V Display additional information.
You can see in the Task manager users Tab
the tsadmin.msc
command will give you a nice GUI with information and control over windows RDP sessions