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Keep-Alive Messages

Requirements: At least Microsoft Windows XP Terminal Services

Location: Computer Configuration\Windows Components\Terminal Services\


Description:
Specifies whether persistent connections are allowed.

After a terminal server client loses the connection to a Terminal server, the session on the terminal server might remain active instead of changing to a disconnected state,even if the client is physically disconnected from the terminal server.If the client logs on to the same terminal server again, a new session might be established (if Group Policy is configured to allow multiple sessions), and the original session might still be active. Enabling keep-alive connections ensures that the session state is consistent with the client state.By default, keep-alive connections are disabled.

If this setting is enabled, keep-alive connections are enabled.

If this setting is disabled, the default behavior is enforced and cannot be changed, even by the computer owner.

If this setting is not configured, keep-alive is off by default.

ADM File: system.adm