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        Terminal Services Advertising in Windows Server 2008

Section(s): Registry Tools, Terminal Servers and Thin Clients, Terminal Servers and Thin Clients , Terminal Servers and Thin Clients
Published on Dec 18, 2008.
Last Modified on Sep 19, 2008.
Last Modified by Nirmal Sharma.
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This article explains a registry entry for Terminal Services to disable/enable advertising.

In Windows Server 2008, only servers that have Terminal Server role service installed will advertise themselves as Terminal Servers, and will be viewable in the Terminal Services Manager snap-in.

A client computer running, Remote Desktop Client obtains the list of only the Terminal Servers. It uses an API Call (NetServerEnum) with a parameter for server type (SV_TYPE_TERMINALSERVER). The Terminal Server computer responds as per the value set in the registry entry. The value is stored in the TSAdvertise registry entry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server key.

You can change the value of TSAdvertise entry to enable/disable the advertising of Terminal Server computer.

0 = Disable Advertising
1 = Enable Advertising

About Nirmal Sharma

Nirmal is a Microsoft MVP in Directory Services and working as a Technical Architect/Consultant. He has been involved in Microsoft Technologies since 1994 and followed the progression of Microsoft Operating Systems and software. He is specialized in Directory Services, Microsoft Clustering, SQL, MOM, Exchange and Citrix. In his spare time, he likes to help others and write "internal" technical articles, white papers and tips on various Microsoft technologies. You can contact him at nirmal_sharma@mvps.org.