Windows Server 2008: Allow multiple Remote Desktop sessions per user

In Windows Server 2003 you could have multiple Remote Desktop session with the same user. In Windows Server 2008 this is not possible by default. If you login with the same user account the first session will be taken over by second session.

But you can allow multiple Remote Desktop sessions per user by changing a registry key.

Start regedit
Check out the follwoing registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TerminalServer
If the fSingleSessionPerUser value doesn’t exist, create a new DWORD value named fSingleSessionPerUser
Open the fSingleSessionPerUser value. The possible values for this setting are as follows:
0×0 Allow multiple sessions per user
0×1 Force each user to a single session
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