Terminal Services

(System Scheduler Professional Only)

System Scheduler includes support for Remote Desktop / Terminal Services. TS provides the facility for more than one user to be logged in to the same computer, they each have their own session. System Scheduler is TS aware and will handle multiple logged in users events.

Each logged in user gets their own running instance of System Scheduler, running as a tray-icon (wscheduler.exe). In addition, with the Professional version there is always another instance of System Scheduler running as a Service that takes care of jobs while logged off.

Terminal Services handles user privileges slightly differently. Users logged in through a remote session do not have the same rights as a user logged on directly at the machine, therefore System Scheduler has additional processing to handle user rights.

In the Remote Desktop preferences section you can explicitly grant additional rights to users logging into that server, you do this by specifying the username and domain and clicking the 'Enable privileges for this user' button, this will grant users additional privileges to still use System Scheduler's 'Run As...' feature in a remote session (something they would normally have if logged in locally).

To save the hassle of manually having to grant users extra privileges it is easiest to leave the option ticked 'Automatically grant special privileges to all TS/RDC user logging into this computer', then System Scheduler will handle this automatically when the user logs in. Please note: The granting of extra privileges does not take effect until after the user has logged out and back in again.

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