Terminal Server Commands

The following page is a list of several commands available on Terminal Server workstations and servers.
These commands can be used in batch files or other scripting languages.
The syntaxes listed are for Windows 2000 Advanced Server (SP3).
From a reliable source I know they are identical in NT 4, XP and 2003.
In early beta versions of Longhorn, though, CHGLOGON /QUERY currently directs its output to standard error instead of standard output. This may still change in a following version.

ACINIUPD
Application Compatibility INI Update (see notes on ACINIUPD by Christoph Geiser)
CHANGE
- CHGLOGON or CHANGE LOGON
  Enable or disable session logins
- CHGPORT or CHANGE PORT
  List or change COM port mappings for DOS application compatibility
- CHGUSR or CHANGE USER
  Change Install Mode
LOGOFF
Terminates a session
MSG
Sends a message to the specified user(s)
QUERY
- QAPPSRV or QUERY TERMSERVER
  Displays the available application terminal servers on the network
- QFARM or QUERY FARM
  Display information about servers on the local farm
- QPROCESS or QUERY PROCESS
  Displays information about processes
- QSERVER or QUERY SERVER
  Display information about available ICA-enabled servers on the network
- QUSER or QUERY USER
  Display information about users logged on to the system
- QWINSTA or QUERY SESSION
  Display information about Terminal Sessions
RESET SESSION
Reset the session subsytem hardware and software to known initial values
SHADOW
Monitor another Terminal Services session
TSCON
Attaches a user session to a terminal session
TSDISCON
Disconnects a terminal session
TSKILL
Ends a process
TSPROF
Copies or updates the terminal server user configuration information
TSSHUTDN
Shut down a server in a controlled manner
TSCMD
Read or set several Terminal Server related user properties.
A very useful free third party command line tool by SystemTools^™ Software Inc.
Download it at SystemTools.com.

ACINIUPD

ACINIUPD: utility to update the INI file (Application Compatibility INI Update).

ACINIUPD

[ /e | /k ] [ /u ] [ /v ] ini_file section key new_value

ini_file: The INI file to be updated
section: Specified the [section] within the INI file
key: Specifies the key to be added or updated
new_value: Specifies the new value to be assigned to key
/e: Update the value for the key in the section specified
/k: Update the key name with the new key name in the section specified
/u: Update INI file in user's windows directory (or any other directory) instead of system directory
/v: Verbose mode

CHANGE

CHANGE { LOGON | PORT | USER }

CHANGE LOGON: Starts CHGLOGON
CHANGE PORT: Starts CHGPORT
CHANGE USER: Starts CHGUSR

CHGLOGON

Enable or disable session logins

CHANGE

LOGON { /QUERY | /ENABLE | /DISABLE }

/QUERY: Query current session login mode
/ENABLE: Enable user login from sessions
/DISABLE: Disable user login from sessions

CHGPORT

List or change COM port mappings for DOS application compatibility

CHANGE

PORT [ portx=porty | /D portx | /QUERY ]

portx=porty: Map port x to port y
/D portx: Delete mapping for port x
/QUERY: Display current mapping ports

CHGUSR

Change Install Mode

CHANGE

USER { /EXECUTE | /INSTALL | /QUERY }

/EXECUTE: Enable execute mode (default)
/INSTALL: Enable install mode
/QUERY: Display current settings

LOGOFF

Terminates a session

LOGOFF

[ sessionname | sessionid ] [ /SERVER:servername ] [ /V ]

sessionname: The name of the session
sessionid: The ID of the session
/SERVER:servername: Specifies the Terminal server containing the user session to log off (default is current)
/V: Displays information about the actions performed

MSG

Sends a message to the specified user(s)

MSG	{ username \| sessionname \| sessionid \| @filename \| * } [ /SERVER:servername ] [ /TIME:seconds ] [ /V ] [ /W ] message

username: The user to receive the message
sessionname: The name of the session
sessionid: The ID of the session
@filename: A file with users, session names and session IDs to receive the message
*: Sends the message to all users on the system
/SERVER:servername: Specifies the Terminal server containing the user session to log off (default is current)
/TIME:seconds: Specifies time to wait for a confirmation for the user who received the message
/V: Displays information about the actions performed
/W: Wait for response from users
message: Specifies the text to send.
If no message is entered it will send STDIN.
To send a text within a file, type "<" and then the file name.

QUERY

{ FARM | PROCESS | SERVER | SESSION | TERMSERVER | USER }

QUERY FARM: Starts QFARM
QUERY PROCESS: Starts QPROCESS
QUERY SERVER: Starts QSERVER
QUERY SESSION: Starts QWINSTA
QUERY TERMSERVER: Starts QAPPSRV
QUERY USER: Starts QUSER

QAPPSRV

Displays the available application terminal servers on the network

QUERY

TERMSERVER [ servername ] [ /DOMAIN:domain ] [ /ADDRESS ] [ /CONTINUE ]

servername: Identifies a Terminal server
/DOMAIN:domain: Displays information for the specified domain (defaults to the current domain)
/ADDRESS: Displays network and node addresses
/CONTINUE: Does not pause after each screen of information

QFARM

Display information about servers on the local farm

QUERY

servername: Identifies a Terminal server
/TCP: Display TCP/IP data
/IPX: Display IPX data
/NETBIOS: Display NETBIOS data
/ADDR: Display address data on selected server
/APP: Display application names and server load
/DISC: Display disconnected session data
/LOAD: Display server load
/OFFLINE: Display offline servers
/ONLINE: Display online servers
/PROCESS: Display active processes
/ZONE: Display zones and data collectors
/CONTINUE: Does not pause after each screen of information

QPROCESS

Displays information about processes

QUERY

*: Display all visible processes
processid: Display process specified by processid
username: Display all processes belonging to username
sessionname: Display all processes running at sessionname
/ID:nn: Display all processes running at session nn
programname: Display all processes associated with programname
/SERVER:servername: The Terminal server to be queried
/SYSTEM: Displays process information for system processes

QSERVER

Display information about available ICA-enabled servers on the network

QUERY

server: Identifies a Terminal server
/TCP: Display TCP/IP data
/IPX: Display IPX data
/NETBIOS: Display NETBIOS data
/TCPSERVER:x: TCP/IP default server address
/IPXSERVER:x: IPX default server address
/NETBIOSSERVER:x: NetBIOS default server address
/LICENSE: Display user licenses
/APP: Display application names and server load
/DISC: Display disconnected session data
/LOAD: Display load data on selected server
/GATEWAY: Display configured gateway addresses
/SERIAL: Display license serial numbers
/SERVERFARM: Display server farm names and server load
/PING: Ping selected server
/COUNT:n: Number of times to ping (default 5)
/SIZE:n: Size of ping buffers (default 256 bytes)
/STATS: Display browser statistics on selected server
/RESET: Reset browser statistics on selected server
/ADDR: Display address data on selected server
/VIDEO: Display VideoFrame data
/IGNORE: Ignore warning message about interoperability mode
/CONTINUE: Does not pause after each screen of information

QUSER

Display information about users logged on to the system

QUERY

USER [ username | sessionname | sessionid ] [ /SERVER:servername ]

username: Identifies the username
sessionname: Identifies the session named sessionname
sessionid: Identifies the session with ID sessionid
/SERVER:servername: The server to be queried (default is current)

QWINSTA

Display information about Terminal Sessions

QUERY

SESSION [ sessionname | username | sessionid ] [ /SERVER:servername ] [ /MODE ] [ /FLOW ] [ /CONNECT ] [ /COUNTER ]

sessionname: Identifies the session named sessionname
username: Identifies the session with user username
sessionid: Identifies the session with ID sessionid
/SERVER:servername: The server to be queried (default is current)
/MODE: Display current line settings
/FLOW: Display current flow control settings
/CONNECT: Display current connect settings
/COUNTER: Display current Terminal Services counters information

RESET SESSION

Reset the session subsytem hardware and software to known initial values

RESET

SESSION { sessionname | sessionid } [ /SERVER:servername ] [ /V ]

sessionid: The ID of the session
sessionname: The name of the session
/SERVER:servername: The server containing the session (default is current)
/V: Display additional information

SHADOW

Monitor another Terminal Services session

SHADOW

{ sessionname | sessionid } [ /SERVER:servername ] [ /V ]

sessionid: The ID of the session
sessionname: The name of the session
/SERVER:servername: The server containing the session (default is current)
/V: Display additional information

TSCON

Attaches a user session to a terminal session

TSCON

[ sessionid | sessionname ] [ /SERVER:servername ] [ /DEST:sessionname ] [ /PASSWORD:pw ] [ /V ]

sessionid: The ID of the session
sessionname: The name of the session
/SERVER:servername: The name of the Terminal server to connect to (default is current)
/DEST:sessionname: Connect the session to destination sessionname
/PASSWORD:pw: Password of user owning identified session
/V: Displays information about the actions performed

TSDISCON

Disconnects a terminal session

TSDISCON

[ sessionid | sessionname ] [ /SERVER:servername ] [ /V ]

sessionid: The ID of the session
sessionname: The name of the session
/SERVER:servername: Specifies the Terminal server (default is current)
/V: Displays information about the actions performed

TSKILL

Ends a process

TSKILL

processid | processname [ /SERVER:servername ] [ /ID:sessionid | /A ] [ /V ]

processid: Process ID for the process to be terminated
processname: Process name to be terminated
/SERVER:servername: Server containing processID (default is current)
/ID or /A must be specified when using processname and /SERVER
/ID:sessionid: End process running under the specified session
/A: End process running under ALL sessions
/V: Display information about actions being performed

TSPROF

Copies or updates the terminal server user configuration information

TSPROF	/UPDATE [ /DOMAIN:domainname \| /LOCAL ] /PROFILE:<path> username
TSPROF	/COPY [ /DOMAIN:domainname \| /LOCAL ] [ /PROFILE:<path> ] src_usr dest_usr
TSPROF	/Q [ /DOMAIN:domainname \| /LOCAL ] username

/UPDATE: Updates the profile path information for username
/COPY: Copies the user configuration information from src_usr to dest_usr
/Q: Shows the current profile path for username
/DOMAIN:domainname: Specifies the domain to work in
/LOCAL: Works on the local computer
/PROFILE:<path>: Specifies the profile path to use
username: Specifies the user to work on
src_usr: Specifies the user to copy the configuration information from
dest_usr: Specifies the user to copy the configuration information to

TSSHUTDN

Shut down a server in a controlled manner

TSSHUTDN

[ wait_time ] [ /SERVER:servername ] [ /REBOOT | /POWERDOWN ] [ /DELAY:logoffdelay ] [ /V ]

wait_time: Seconds to wait after user notification before terminating all user sessions (default is 60)
/SERVER:servername: The server to shut down (default is current)
/REBOOT: Reboot the server after user sessions are terminated
/POWERDOWN: The server will prepare for powering off
/DELAY:logoffdelay: Seconds to wait after logging off all connected sessions (default is 30)
/V: Display information about actions being performed

TSCMD

A free "third party" command-line utility by SystemTools.com to set terminal server user settings.
All eighteen (18) terminal server settings can be set.

TSCMD

server user setting [ new_value ]

server: Domain controller of the Terminal Servers' domain
user: The user account to be queried or modified
setting: One of the following properties:

InitialProgram
WorkingDirectory
InheritInitialProgram
AllowLogonTerminalServer
TimeoutConnection
TimeoutDisconnect
TimeoutIdle
DeviceClientDrives
DeviceClientPrinters
DeviceClientDefaultPrinter
BrokenTimeoutSettings
ReconnectSettings
ModemCallbackSettings
ModemCallbackPhoneNumber
ShadowingSettings
TerminalServerProfilePath
TerminalServerHomeDir
TerminalServerHomeDirDrive
new_value: Optional new value for the specified setting (property).
If left out the current value of setting will be displayed.
Check TSCMD's readme for details on valid new values.