Keeping remote desktop session "alive"

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lysergic-acid picture lysergic-acid · Apr 3, 2011 · Viewed 17k times · Source

I'm using AutoIt to automate GUI operations (connecting to the machine that's running the to-be-automated app, using RDP). Whenever I minimize the RDP window (using mRemote) no further AutoIt commands are performed.

Maybe the RDP session is marked "inactive" when I minimize the window (I don't know if that's true, nor how to configure this behavior, if so). I'm thinking about 2 options to overcome this:

  1. Running my process as some elevated user (or a service).
  2. Finding this configuration which controls whether session is marked inactive and override it.

How to keep remote desktop session "alive" when the RDP window gets minimized?

Answer

Alexey Ivanov picture Alexey Ivanov · Apr 3, 2011

We had the same problem with RDP. A workaround we used was to open another remote desktop session to connect to the same server:

  1. You connect to server with RD.
  2. From RD of step 1, you connect to server once again.

This way the 2nd session will be still "active" when you minimize or even disconnect your first RD session. Of course your Remote Desktop server has to support multiple connections from the same user.

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