

Navigate to Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > User Rights Assignment. Verify the effective setting in Local Group Policy Editor. A separate version applies to domain controllers. This applies to member servers and standalone systems. Windows Server 2016 Security Technical Implementation Guide The Guests group must be assigned this right to prevent unauthenticated access. Local accounts on domain-joined systems must also be assigned this right to decrease the risk of lateral movement resulting from credential theft attacks. In an Active Directory Domain, denying logons to the Enterprise Admins and Domain Admins groups on lower-trust systems helps mitigate the risk of privilege escalation from credential theft attacks, which could lead to the compromise of an entire domain. The "Deny log on through Remote Desktop Services" user right defines the accounts that are prevented from logging on using Remote Desktop Services.

In the Permissions for Everyone area, click to select the Deny check box to deny permission for Guest Access, and then click OK.Inappropriate granting of user rights can provide system, administrative, and other high-level capabilities.In the Group or user names area, click to select the Everyone group.On the Permissions tab, click Add, type Everyone in the Enter the object names to select (examples) box, click Check Names, and then click OK.On the Network Adapter tab, click to select 1 from the Maximum connections list.In the right-side pane, right-click RDP-Tcp, and then click Properties.In the console tree, click Connections.To open the Terminal Services Configuration Tool, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Terminal Services Configuration.How to limit the number of remote sessions on a terminal server

By default, with a Windows Server 2003 terminal server in Remote Administration mode, you can have two remote sessions and one console session, for a total of three active sessions. This article describes how to make sure that only one user at a time can connect to a Windows Server 2003 terminal server in Remote Administration Mode remotely or at the console.

This article describes how to make sure that only one user at a time can connect to a Windows Server 2003 terminal server in Remote Administration Mode remotely or at the console.Īpplies to: Windows Server 2003 Original KB number: 830581 Summary
