Concurrent sessions in vista

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Concurrent Sessions in Vista Monday, December 22, I have several laptops being used around my house. In addition to RDP limitations with graphics, I've found that this multi-user setup has a couple gotchas: Java-based apps don't like mult-user mode, so the kids have to coordinate who uses that particular app one at a time The sound drivers crash when more than one person tries to use them - sometimes.

To test it out simply leave the current user logged on to the pc, now connect to the computer remotely using a different user account to the one you left logged on. If all has gone well both users will be logged on and active. Here is a screen shot of me logged on to our Media Center remotely without logging the Media Center user off:. Apparently this hack will install on Vista Home Premium and enable the use of remote desktop remote desktop is not supposed to be included in Vista Home Premium.

Feel free to report back on your findings with Vista Home Premium. Login But what is regarded a concurrent session? But what happens if a user has for example two browsers opened and is logged in with the same account - would the last case consume two concurrent sessions?

In Xpert. This means that every time a user starts a new web browser a new session is created. However since Xpert. It is more likely to be concurrent users instead of concurrent sessions now. Thanks for your detailed reply. I assume that a anonymous session is not counted up more than 10 anonymous users on a public portal would quickly result in problems here.

Or am I wrong here and it's counted up like logged in users? Each anonymous Session is counted as 1. This is because an anonymous Session does not require a named user License whereas a known Session needs one. You need to install the Axon. Unless you have an unlimited Named Users and Concurrent Users license, the tab should look like this:.