How to Prevent Terminal Services From Announcing The Service To The Browse List
Wednesday, 27 December 2006 by Michel Roth
This Microsoft support article describes how to prevent Terminal Services servers from announcing the service to the browser list. The list of Terminal Services-based computers in the browse list may be too large. You may want to prevent some Terminal Services-based computers from being able to announce the Terminal Services service; yet, at the same time, you may want to enable the computer to be displayed as a server on the browse list.

By default, only Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services-based servers and Windows 2000-based servers with Terminal Services installed in either Application Server mode or in Remote Administration mode advertise themselves as Terminal Services servers. Windows XP-based computers and Windows Server 2003-based computers with only Remote Desktop enabled do not advertise themselves as Terminal Services servers.

This registry change can cause the modified server to also become inaccessible in the Terminal Services Manager snap-in. Do not use this setting if you want this functionality.

Read KB262852 here.

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