A couple of users have reported to us that they were able to "reconnect" to their original session of the previous day after a reboot of the RDS server. And a "full reconnect" to the active session! Is this really possible?
The users claim not to have been logged off at all, so their session was still running during the night when the RDS servers in a farm were automatically rebooted. I verified this an the servers were indeed rebooted. When the user logged on to the thin client and started RDP to the Farm (via a tsbroker to a RR DNS farm) he was automatically reconnected to his session of the previous day, he did not have to re-enter his password details (SSO) but all applications were available instantly without restating and with the windows open on the spot where they left of the previous day.
It almost sounds like magic. We use bginfo to show some details on the desktop and the user confirmed that it was the same server and bginfo showed that the RDS server was indeed rebooted! Nevertheless the users windows arrangements and Outlook were shown instantly without re-starting on the spot where the user left the day before!! On the RDs sever all processes of the user had a new "start time" which confirms again that the server was rebooted indeed!
Almost sounds like a kind of hibernation of the RDP session and restarting the next day where the user left off...
Is this plain by design and to be expected??
Guido