Terminal Server has exceeded max number of connections !!!!

Terminal Server has exceeded max number of connections !!!!

Alright, You've got your server weather 2003 or 2008 and you're trying to get in via Remote Desktop and once you do connect, you cannot authenticate and you get the below mentioned error :

{ Terminal Server has exceeded max number of connections }

How do you get past this ? Pretty easy, follow the steps below and you should be good to go.

There are two ways to get past the above mentioned error.

1. Buy your extra licenses so you can have multiple simultaneous connections to the server

or

You already have two default connections available on your servers which you could use to get connected. Now that you only have two default connections available, you will have to kick one of the connections off if two are already connected.

How do you do that ?

Logging Off Users

Once logged into the server, (via VNC or directly accessing the server)

1. Open ‘Task Manager’
2. When the ‘Task Manager’ comes up, select the ‘Users’ tab.
3. In this window, you will see all of the users currently connected to the server.
Select a disconnected user, and then click the ‘Log off‘ button at the bottom to clear it.

Once this has been completed, log the session you are using off and you should be able to connect as normal.

Please use this session only to properly terminate the other two active sessions.

If you need any assistance with this process, or encounter any issues, please do not hesitate to get in touch.