Allow Multiple Remote Desktop Sessions For The Same User

In this article we will discuss how to Allow Multiple Remote Desktop Sessions For The Same User in windows 2012

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012 are allow only a single session for a user through remote desktop. But sometimes we may required to allow multiple remote desktop sessions for a single user at the same time. To allow concurrent same user sessions we need to change the terminal server settings in the registry on the server.

Steps to Allow Multiple Remote Desktop Sessions per user:

1. On the Windows Server 2012 go to search, type run and click Run after in run windows type in regedit and press enter button to launch the Registry Editor.

2. In the Registry Editor go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ System\ CurrentControlSet\ Control\ TerminalServer.

3. On selecting the TerminalServices Registry, you can see the registry key fSingleSessionPerUser on the right panel.

4. Right-click on fSingleSessionPerUser after that click on modify. Change the value from 1 to 0. The value 1 means single session for each user and 0 means multiple sessions for each user.

After these changes you need to restart your server.