Programmatically Determining the Terminal Server Mode in Server 2008

posted by  winster (82)  9 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

A great blog post from Helge Klein on how to determine if your Terminal Server is in Remote Administration mode or Terminal Services mode:

With Windows Server 2008 "terminal server" is a role that can be installed with the GUI tool Server Manager. If the role "terminal server" is installed then the system runs in application server mode. If not, it runs in remote administration mode. It is as simple as that. RDP connections can, however, be disallowed or limited to clients with Network Level Authentication (NLA). This is configured in the system's properties, accessible via:

SystemPropertiesAdvanced.exe -> Remote -> Remote Desktop

Now, how can these settings be queried programmatically? Read on...