Connecting to specific session using remote desktop

Note that mstsc.exe has no (documented) options to supply a session ID.

But once you have logged in to the Remote Desktop Session server, you can change the session you are connected to by issuing

tscon <session id> /v

See MS KB 321703 for details on tscon.

Alternatively, you might use tsadmin.msc and the “Connect” function from the context menu of the “Sessions” tab:

tsadmin.msc

As another idea, you could try supplying an alternate shell with the RDP configuration file which would run tscon <sessionID>, but I am not quite sure it would really pan out as you intend it to.

Leave a Comment