Managing Logons

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

Note: For RD Session Hosts based on a template, the drain mode (which disables logons) is handled automatically by the group to which a host belongs. For more information see Using Scheduler.

To manage logons:

1. In the Parallels RAS Console, navigate to Farm / <Site> / RD Session Hosts.
2. Select an RD Session Host, click Tasks > Control and choose one of the following:
   • Enable 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 an RD Session Host, click Tasks > Control. The checked-out option indicates the current logon control mode of the selected RD Session Host. 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 status 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 an RD Session Host 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.