Policy

Do not use temporary folders per session

This policy setting allows you to prevent Remote Desktop Services from creating session-specific temporary folders. You can use this policy setting to disable the creation of separate temporary folders on a remote computer for each session. By default, Remote Desktop Services creates a separate temporary folder for each active session that a user maintains on a remote computer. These temporary folders are created on the remote computer in a Temp folder under the user's profile folder and are named with the sessionid. If you enable this policy setting, per-session temporary folders are not created. Instead, a user's temporary files for all sessions on the remote computer are stored in a common Temp folder under the user's profile folder on the remote computer. If you disable this policy setting, per-session temporary folders are always created, even if the server administrator specifies otherwise. If you do not configure this policy setting, per-session temporary folders are created unless the server administrator specifies otherwise.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Windows
Category Windows Components / Remote Desktop Services / Remote Desktop Session Host / Temporary folders
Policy ID b20118374dc8
Internal name TS_TEMP_PER_SESSION

Registry

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HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services\PerSessionTempDir (enabled) = 0
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services\PerSessionTempDir (disabled) = 1

Policy notes

This policy setting allows you to prevent Remote Desktop Services from creating session-specific temporary folders. You can use this policy setting to disable the creation of separate temporary folders on a remote computer for each session. By default, Remote Desktop Services creates a separate temporary folder for each active session that a user maintains on a remote computer. These temporary folders are created on the remote computer in a Temp folder under the user's profile folder and are named with the sessionid. If you enable this policy setting, per-session temporary folders are not created. Instead, a user's temporary files for all sessions on the remote computer are stored in a common Temp folder under the user's profile folder on the remote computer. If you disable this policy setting, per-session temporary folders are always created, even if the server administrator specifies otherwise. If you do not configure this policy setting, per-session temporary folders are created unless the server administrator specifies otherwise.

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