Managing Logons

The logon management feature allows you to enable or disable logons from Terminal Servers. The feature performs the same tasks as the change logon command-line utility.

To manage logons:

1. In the Parallels Remote Application Server Console, navigate to Farm / Site / Terminal Servers.
2. Select a terminal server and click Tasks > Control.
3. The Control menu item has the following submenu items:
   • Enable logons — enables logons. This option performs the same action as the change logon /enable command.
   • Disable logons and reconnections — disables subsequent logons. Does not affect currently logged on users. This option performs the same action as change logon /disable command.
   • Disable logons until server reboot — disables logons until the computer is restarted, but allows reconnections to existing sessions. Same action as the change logon /drainuntilrestart command.

To see the current logon control mode for a terminal server, right-click it and point to Control in the context menu. The checked-out option indicates the current logon control mode of the selected terminal server. To do this check from the command line, execute the  change logon /QUERY  command on the server.

Please also note the following:

• When applying a logon control mode on a server, ensure that the agent state is updated accordingly.
• You must set the logon control options for the servers one-by-one. If you need to do it for a group of servers, you can use the scheduler (see Using a Terminal Server Scheduler).
• There's no option for disabling logons from new client sessions but allowing reconnections to existing sessions (change logon /DRAIN) because its behavior is identical to the Disable logons until server restart option (change logon /DRAINUNTILRESTART).
• Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Remote Desktop Services / Remote Desktop Session Host / Connection / Allow users to connect remotely using remote desktop services must be set to Not configured, otherwise it takes precedence.