Managing Terminal Services

In a network infrastructure, the administrator may find it difficult to monitor users and session on each server of the network. For this, the administrator needs the information of the user sessions on the remote server. Windows Server 2003 provides the Terminal Services Manager for this purpose.
The Terminal Services Manager helps you in viewing the administrative information of the Remote Desktop Sessions on the server. The Terminal Services Manager can also be used to send messages to the users of all the remote computers.

To send messages to a remote computer:

1. Select Start 4 Programs 4 Administrative Tools 4 Terminal Services Manager. The Terminal Services Manager message box appears.

2. Click OK. The All Listed Servers - Terminal Services Manager console appears.

3. In the console tree, click the required Connections under All Listed Servers

4. Select Action > Connect to Computer. The Connect to Computer dialog box appears.

5. Enter the name of the computer to which you want to send the message in Type the name of the computer to connect to text box.

6. Click OK.

7. Select Action > Send Message. The Send Message dialog box appears.

8. Enter the required message in the Message text box.

9. Click OK. The message is sent to the selected computer.