How to disconnect and logoff idle remote sessions on windows server

Learn how to disconnect and logoff idle remote sessions using group policy. In this example, I show you how to disconnect and then logoff idle remote sessions on windows servers by deploying a group policy to all servers.
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[@OldFellaDave]

One of my biggest annoyances ... idle RDP sessions ... this fixes that! Should be a basic requirement of any decent RDP deployment. Nice one Danny ;)

[@danielselvakumar7146]

Hi, thanks for the video, Danny

[@andrewenglish3810]

This is great for RDP sessions, as for servers were Admins someones forget to log out it can be problematic if some of those servers require a service account to be logged in to run some services that cannot be run as Windows services.

[@noyan5]

I have attempted various methods, but only the administrator account logs off upon disconnect, while none of the user accounts seem to do so. Any insights on why this might be happening would be greatly appreciated.

[@jeffreyooi1971]

Hi, thanks for the video. I have followed your steps and tested it on our AD. After idle for 1 minute, it has a pop-up message saying: