Connected Remote Desktop User Not Shown On Host Workstation Log or Login Screen

Question

We have a Windows Server 2019 domain with all workstations running Windows 10 Pro. Remote desktop connection to the office workstations works fine. Issue is that when a remote user is connected to the workstation there is no indication on the workstation log in screen that the remote user is connected. If a user in the office wants to use that workstation he/she can log on, but that disconnects any connected remote user. I'd like to prevent that by having the lock or log in screen show the connected remote desktop user before the local user tries to log in. This functionality was present when our old workstations ran Windows 7 Pro, but seems to have disappeared with Windows 10 Pro. Is there a local machine or domain setting or GPO that will allow the workstation's log in or lock screen to show the connected users?

Answer 1

Hi,
In my test, if both users are using the same account (either locally or remotely), the second session will directly kick off existing session without any notifications.

However, if they used different accounts, for the second account it will get notification like "Another user is currently logged on to this computer. If you continue, this user has to be disconnected from this computer. Do you want to continue?".
On the other side, the login user will get warning to action in 30 seconds:

All these behaviors are by design, kindly create separate accounts used for remote session will provide notifications when another session would like to interrupt.

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Thanks,
Jenny

Answer 2

@mike zs
Display user information when the session is locked
This security setting controls whether details such as email address or domain\username appear with the username on the sign-in screen. For clients that run Windows 10 version 1511 and 1507 (RTM), this setting works similarly to previous versions of Windows. However, because of a new Privacy setting introduced in Windows 10 version 1607, this security setting affects those clients differently.

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