Example: Switching between user sessions in the command line
Although the primary focus of
tscon.exe and
tsdiscon.exe is Remote Desktop Services, it is possible to use these command line tools to switch between
sessions.
The initial position is that only one user (besides services) is connected (and has a session), which can be queryed with query session:
C:\> query session
SESSIONNAME USERNAME ID STATE TYPE DEVICE
services 0 Disc
>console Rene 1 Active
So, we want to login with an additional
user and its separate session. This is possible with
tsdiscon.exe.
tsdiscon does not log out the that is executing this command, but it locks his account and gotes to the logon-screen. With the logon screen, we're able to start the second user session:
C:\> tsdiscon
Now, with another user logged in, we can query the sessions again:
C:\> query session
SESSIONNAME USERNAME ID STATE TYPE DEVICE
services 0 Disc
Rene 1 Disc
>console AnotherUser 2 Active
With tscon, we can switch back to the first session, without logging out the currently active session:
C:\> tscon 1 /password:secretGarden