Remote Desktop session limits

[JordanT91]

We've got some assessment/curriculum software that is designed to only be installed on one computer for use by one user. Not very useful! It needs to be available for all of our teachers to use (I've checked, there isn't a site license. It's quite old software that is only available on a CD-ROM).

 

I've set up a Windows Server 2019 VM and installed the software on it. The software only works on the user profile it was installed on, which I've created and called 'QWERS'. I've made the changes on this user profile that are required by the software, such as US region etc., so everybody needs to log in as this account.

 

I've configured remote desktop to allow connections from this user account, and all staff have the RDP file on their desktop ready to go.

 

The problem is, when one person is connected to the VM, and somebody else connects via RDP, it hijacks the session with no warning.

 

Can anyone think of a way to stop this? I've configured via GPO (Computer Config > Admin Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host > Connections) the settings 'Limit number of connections' to 1 and 'Restrict Remote Desktop Services users to a single Remote Desktop Services session' to enable but they haven't made a difference. I have now discovered that these settings are for Remote Desktop Services, which I'm not using!

 

What I'd like to happen is if somebody is currently logged in, and somebody else tries, it rejects the connection for them.

 

Any ideas?

[bald_pig]

I don't think this is possible if it's the same user.