How can I set an account lockout policy for the administrator account on rdp?

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Published on 2011-02-23T14:33:13Z Indexed on 2011/02/23 15:27 UTC
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I'm following this page on security tips for RDP (for my online server):

http://www.mobydisk.com/techres/securing_remote_desktop.html

Now I don't have a special user account for RDP access. Just the administrator can log on. However, I want to make sure that someone can't brute force the password.

I've set the 'account lockout policy' to 3 attempts and a retry after 3 minutes. However, when I connect back with RDP I can still try 5 times before RDP breaks the connection. I can then immediately reconnect and try 5 more times.

Any ideas if there is a lockout policy which also holds true fro the admin?

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