BetaONE will rise again! - Concurrent Sessions In Xpsp2

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Courtesy of NeoWin:

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It appears a tiny registry change on a machine running Windows XP SP2 will enable SP2's Concurrent Sessions for Remote Desktop. This allows more than one user to use the machine at the same time.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/CurrentControlSet/Control/Terminal Server/Licensing Core

Create a new DWORD entry "EnableConcurrentSessions" and assign a value of 1 to it. Concurrent Sessions is now enabled.

Microsoft's response to this matter in the SP2 newsgroups was:

"I am curious about your report that the Registry Key you mentioned is allowing you to log on with multiple users concurrently. This registry key should do nothing. Could you please confirm that you are able to have two users logged on to your XP SP2 box at the same time? And further what changes you made to make this possible? "

We exclusively revealed that Windows XP SP2 would contain Concurrent Sessions back in April 2003, since then many sites have claimed SP2 wouldn't contain Concurrent Sessions but it shall.

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feracs

Damn, this means i am going to have to install XPSP2 again to test it out :D

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Originally posted by DoG@Jan 10 2004, 03:23 PM
Damn, this means i am going to have to install XPSP2 again to test it out :D

Hehe, I installed XPSP2 (b2055) on three computers, and it's working smootly without ANY problems. Just installing it on my ICS box now, where concurrent sessions will be useful... will let you know if the registry hack works.

I just knew only last week that Windows Server 2003 supports concurrent sessions. :D

Thanks Zone for this great info. :)

isn't xpsp2 still in the beta stage??

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Originally posted by skloo77@Jan 20 2004, 11:16 AM
isn't xpsp2 still in the beta stage??

Yes. Windows XP SP2 BetaONE build: 2055 ;)

Can anybody please confirm if this works with XP SP2 RC1? Thanks in advance. :)

ok I did the regediting.
need to restart.
What am I to do when I logon?
Whats the process??

that same add-0n will hurt microsoft

i mean if the wrong person gets it and uses it