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I'm on a Windows 7 workstation and have to connect to an offsite virtualized Windows 2008 server through RDP to use an app for work. After about 15 minutes of idle time the whole thing freezes up and I have to kill the process from the task manager and re-open the connection. This is not very practical but I do not have any control over what happens server side.

Is there anything I can do on the client side that will keep the connection active for a longer period of time?

matt
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You can try to enable RDP keep alive functionnality in the registry:

In regedit.exe as admin:

  1. Go to the location HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server
  2. Create or edit the DWORD value of KeepAliveEnable
  3. Set it to 1.
  4. Save and quit

Otherwise, try talking to the IT at your job to change this:

There's 2 settings for that in Win Server 2008 under Remote Desktop Services Sessions:

  • Active session limit
  • Idle session limit

Active session limit

Specify the maximum amount of time that the user's Remote Desktop Services session can be active before the session is automatically disconnected or ended.

The user receives a warning two minutes before the Remote Desktop Services session is disconnected or ended, which allows the user to save open files and close programs.

Idle session limit

Specify the maximum amount of time that an active Remote Desktop Services session can be idle (without user input) before the session is automatically disconnected or ended.

The user receives a warning two minutes before the session is disconnected or ended, which allows the user to press a key or move the mouse to keep the session active.

See : Configure Timeout and Reconnection Settings for Remote Desktop Services Sessions

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pycvalade
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Another option is to edit this registry value:

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
  • Software => Microsoft => Terminal Server Client
  • DWORD
  • RemoteDesktop_SuppressWhenMinimized
  • Set the value to 2
Mohammad Honari
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On the client side we run caffeine in the virtual host, the virtual machine and the rdp client. If you don't sandbox, you'd run it on your client machine, as well as inside the targeted rdp instance.

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