By default, Windows and Windows server allow a single Remote Desktop session. If you have multiple administrators working on your computer and only one session is available you will take over another person’s live session. However, following the instructions below allows you to enable multiple RDP sessions.
Open the start screen (press Windows + R) and type gpedit.msc and open it.
- Go to Computer Configuration
- Administrative Templates
- Windows Components
- Remote Desktop Services
- Remote Desktop Session Host
- Connections.
Then Set Restrict Remote Desktop Services user to a single Remote Desktop Services session to Disabled
If you want to restrict the number of Remote Desktop Services sessions that can be active on a server, Set Limit number of connections to Enabled, and enter the number of connections you want to specify in RD Maximum Connections allowed.
Be aware that if you want or need to allow more than 2 simultaneously sessions, RDS deployment with appropriate RDS CALs installed is necessary.