RDP connection alive after disconnect

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Shagwana(Posted 2012) [#1]
This is computer related so maybe someone one of you kind souls can help.

I am currently involved in automated GUI testing of an (web) application, using a script that reads colours from the desktop. This is all find and dandy and works on our local machines as expected (VMWare server stuff).

However I have been asked to see how the application performs when 100 users are doing what this automation test does.

So off I went to the Amazon cloud, set myself up a Amazon machine and got the the script running without issue there. No problem.

However when my Remote Desktop connection is closed, the user logs off and the desktop is killed ~ thus stopping the desktop colours from being read and breaking the script.

So to the point of my post, does anyone know a way of keeping the desktop alive once the RDP connection has been closed?.

X fingers crossed!


xlsior(Posted 2012) [#2]
You can tell the server to keep a session active upon disconnect -- on the server, under Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754272.aspx