The MMC snap-ins for managing Windows Terminal Services won’t allow you to see open sessions on a remote terminal server if you aren’t an administrator. And even if you grant the user the permissions described in http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732332.aspx, the user still won’t be able to run the snap-ins. How can a standard user view open terminal server sessions?
They can do this by using the Qwinsta command-line utility, which can be run by both admins and standard users. And on newer Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH) servers they can use the Query Session command.
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