services:remote-access:rules_for_terminal_server_usage
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===== disconnect vs. log-out ===== | ===== disconnect vs. log-out ===== | ||
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+ | **<color red>In order to log out from the terminal server it is not sufficient to click on the red cross in the upper right corner of your Windows!</ | ||
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+ | **<color red>Um sich vom Terminal-Server abzumelden, reicht es nicht, das Windows-Fenster durch einen Klick auf das rote Kreuz oben rechts zu schliessen!</ | ||
An important feature of a terminal server is that you can disconnect from your session and pick it up at a later time. E.g. you could start your work at home, disconnect the session and reconnect back once you reach the office. All programs will stay open. In order to not have disconnected sessions flood the server (since people tend to forget about them) we will **automatically terminate disconnected sessions after 48 hours**. So please make sure to save your documents every time you disconnect from your terminal server session. If you don't need to reconnect to your session at a later time, please **log out from it using the normal log out mechanism from within windows, e.g. Start-> | An important feature of a terminal server is that you can disconnect from your session and pick it up at a later time. E.g. you could start your work at home, disconnect the session and reconnect back once you reach the office. All programs will stay open. In order to not have disconnected sessions flood the server (since people tend to forget about them) we will **automatically terminate disconnected sessions after 48 hours**. So please make sure to save your documents every time you disconnect from your terminal server session. If you don't need to reconnect to your session at a later time, please **log out from it using the normal log out mechanism from within windows, e.g. Start-> | ||
===== Running programs ===== | ===== Running programs ===== | ||
- | Since the terminal server is a shared server where lots of people might be working at the same time you are not allowed to start long running and cpu/memory intensive calculations there. The main purpose of the system is to give everyone access to typical Windows software like Office | + | Since the terminal server is a shared server where lots of people might be working at the same time you are not allowed to start long running and cpu/memory intensive calculations there. The main purpose of the system is to give everyone access to typical Windows software like Office, Adobe Acrobat |
===== Maintenance ===== | ===== Maintenance ===== | ||
- | In order to update software or fix problems the terminal servers might have to be rebooted every once in a while. If this becomes necessary we will terminate user sessions that have **no active programs** aka empty desktops. These sessions are in almost all cases just open by accident and the corresponding users might even have forgotten about them. In any case terminating these sessions doesn' | + | In order to update software or fix problems the terminal servers might have to be rebooted every once in a while. If this becomes necessary we will terminate user sessions that have **no active programs** aka empty desktops. These sessions are in almost all cases just open by accident and the corresponding users might even have forgotten about them. In any case terminating these sessions doesn' |
services/remote-access/rules_for_terminal_server_usage.txt · Last modified: 2014/02/25 15:18 by dreger