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Prevent sessions for services

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You can use the legacy installs Control Panel to prevent new sessions for all the legacy services running on a specific computer or to prevent new sessions for a specific legacy service.

To prevent new sessions for services on a computer

  1. From a user account that is a member of the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group (or has equivalent user rights), or assigned to the CsServerAdministrator or CsAdministrator role, log on to any computer that is in the network in which you deployed Skype for Business Server 2019.

  2. Open Skype for Business Control Panel.

  3. In the left navigation bar, click Topology, and then click Status.

  4. On the Status page, sort or search through the list as needed to find the computer that is running the services for which you want to prevent new sessions, and then click it.

  5. Click Action.

  6. Click Prevent new sessions for all services.

To prevent new sessions for a specific service

  1. From a user account that is a member of the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group (or has equivalent user rights), or assigned to the CsServerAdministrator or CsAdministrator role, log on to any computer that is in the network in which you deployed Skype for Business Server 2019.

  2. Open Skype for Business Control Panel.

  3. In the left navigation bar, click Topology, and then click Status.

  4. On the Status page, sort or search through the list as needed to find the computer that is running the service you want to start or stop, and then click it.

  5. Click Properties.

  6. Sort the list of services, if necessary, and click the service for which you want to prevent new sessions.

  7. Click Action.

  8. Click Prevent new sessions for service.

  9. Click Close.