Configure Active Directory GPO for more active
remote user sessions
By default, Microsoft RDS allows a maximum of two user sessions at the same time on an EC2 Windows instance that provides user-based subscription products. After you've configured your License Server endpoints, you can configure Microsoft RDS to allow more than two user sessions at the same time with an Active Directory Group Policy Object (GPO), as follows.
Prerequisite
You must have created a license server in your environment. To create a license server, see Step 3: Configure RDS license server.
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The tool that you use to configure your GPO depends on where you run it from, as follows:
- Central configuration from your domain controller
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Log into your Active Directory domain controller as an administrator, and open the Windows Group Policy Management Console.
- Configure group policy on the session host
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Log into your License Server as an administrator, and open the Local Group Policy Editor.
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From the management console or policy editor, edit the group policy to specify the session hosts that connect through Microsoft RDS. You can find the endpoint for your RDS License Server in the License Manager product details page, or with the list-license-server-endpoints command in the AWS CLI.
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Set the licensing mode for the Remote Desktop Session Host to
Per User, and save.
For more information about configuring your RDS License Server for License Manager, see
in the Get
started topic. For more information about configuration for Microsoft RDS session hosts, see
License Remote Desktop session hosts
