I have a couple of 2012 and 2012 R2 servers where I have enabled remote desktop.
The question is how do I control the settings for these servers? I want to for example set the idle timeout and what to do with disconnected sessions.
I have seen several posts saying that you should do it via powershell but the only applies if you have installed the rds server role on the computer. And I don't want that role on the server. I only want the administrators to be able to connect and administer the server.
I tried to set up a group policy in active directory ("Computer -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Remote Desktop Services -> Remote Desktop Session Host -> Session time limits") and set session limits but those does not seem to apply when the role isn't installed on server 2012.
I have not tested setting these options on the user part. Because I don't want to use group policy loopback if it is not absolutely required.