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| Manage Terminal Services with command-line utilities |
| Terminal Services provides you with a graphical interface to a remote computer, which makes |
| Terminal Services extremely useful for administration. While Terminal Services makes for a |
| great remote administration utility, you'll sometimes want to use command-line utilities to |
| Logoff: Logs off a user from a Terminal Services session and deletes the session. |
| Msg: Sends a message to other Terminal Services users. |
| Query: Allows you to query Terminal Services for information about processes, sessions, Terminal |
| Services running on the network, and user sessions. |
| Reset session: Use this utility only when Terminal Services malfunctions or isn't responding. Data |
| Shadow: Remotely controls sessions from other users, either actively or passively. |
| Tscon: Connects you to another existing session. |
| Tsdiscon: Disconnects a session from a Terminal Services server. (Note: You must have Full |
| Control permissions to disconnect another user.) |
| Tskill: Ends a process running on Terminal Server. As an administrator, you can also kill |
| processes belonging to other users. |
| Tsshutdn: Shuts down or reboots a remote Terminal Services server. Microsoft recommends that |
| administrators shut down the server using this command-line utility, instead of shutting down the |
| server via the Start menu. The Start menu method doesn't notify users before ending their |
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