Reporting available RDP sessions

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Published on 2010-05-12T07:22:06Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 7:25 UTC
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Hi All

Default Windows 2003 Server has two RDP sessions available.If all of them are taken by someone else you will only be notified about it after providing your credentials.
This seems like a waste of time especially in our environment where we share a lot of development server.
Could a message be given as soon as you open the connection window if the connections are taken up? We can use qwinsta based script to check sessions before logon but it's still takes time.

Is there a feature to do what I am asking for?

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