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March 5, 2017

Technical Tip: FSSO - avoiding overwriting logons when using RDP

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Description
Sometimes users want to use RDP without losing their privileges and without adding a user on the 'ignore list'.
This articles describes the method to modify a Windows registry to avoid this behavior.


Solution
Modify the registry Keys on domain controllers.

Note :
Make a backup of registry of the following registry key.


Open regedit on domain controller and navigate to:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\MSV1_0]
Delete value Auth0 or change Auth0 value to anything other than dcagent

Example:
auth0 = “test”


After that restart domain controller.

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