Timeouts can be set on the RD Gateway server for Remote Desktop Services clients. Timeouts can be used to reclaim resources from inactive user sessions or periodically enforce policies on active user connections for Remote Desktop Services clients connected by using an RD Gateway server.

Remote Desktop Gateway timeouts

The following timeouts can be set on the Timeouts tab of the Properties dialog box for a Remote Desktop connection authorization policy (RD CAP) for the RD Gateway server.

  1. Enable idle timeout is used to reclaim resources from inactive user sessions without impacting the user’s session and data. When the idle timeout is reached, the session is disconnected and resources from the session are reclaimed by the RD Gateway server.

  2. Enable session timeout is used to periodically enforce policies on active user connections. When the session timeout is reached, the session can be disconnected, or the session can be reauthenticated and reauthorized with no impact to the user and their session if no policy changes have been made.