Terminal Services Sessions Are Full

You are trying to connect on a Windows 2000 Standalone server and the terminal service ssessions are full.

  • Connect to a machine on the same subnet of the target machine and make sure you have administrative privileges.
  • Run cmd.exe
  • Enter the following command: qwinsta /server:192.168.1.3 (IP address of the target server)
  • The above will show you the users that hold the sessions of terminal services: (You will get a result like the following)
terminal services sessions in windows 2000
terminal services sessions in windows 2000

On this example the Administrator is connected from console and also holds another session of TS.
Also user1 is connected through TS.
In order to disconnect one of these users enter the following command:
rwinsta /server:192.168.1.3 3 (IP address of the target server and ID number)
This command will disconnect user user1.

Display Hidden Devices in Windows

We know that when you install a driver in Windows it remains there until you uninstall it. You can follow this procedure in order to uninstall drivers for hardware that no longer exists on the machine:

  • open cmd
  • run “set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1”
  • run “start devmgmt.msc”
  • Click Show Hidden devices from the View menu
  • You will now see all the installed drivers on your machine, even those that your system no longer uses them.
  • You can now uninstall them.

Microsoft Update Services SUS

By default when a pc / server connects to an SUS server, an susclientid is created on the pc / server. In case that you clone that pc / server, the same susclientid will exist on the cloned pc / server and the SUS server will only have one entry of this pc / server. In order to change it on the new pc / server you have to follow the following procedure:

1. Stop Automatic Updates service
2. run regedit and go to HLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/WindowsUpdate
3. on the right site of Registry Editor delete SusClientId and SusclientidValidation
4. Start Automatic Updates service
5. open cmd and run: wuauclt /detectnow

Now a new susclientid will be created on the machine and in a few seconds it will be created on the SUS machine.
Tested on Windows XP SP3 for the moment.