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Asked: 2026-05-10T21:03:25+00:00

Under normal circumstances, a VB.NET application of mine can check the ClientName environmental variable

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Under normal circumstances, a VB.NET application of mine can check the ClientName environmental variable to get the name of the workstation the user is connecting from.

So when WorkstationX RDPs into ServerA:

  • ComputerName=ServerA
  • ClientName=WorkstationX

That works fine.

If I right-click on the application and choose Run As Administrator, the ClientName variable is not set.

Does anyone know of a way of easily getting the workstation name of the client connected to the terminal server, even when the application is launched via ‘Run As Administrator’?

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  1. The terminal services API might be your answer. I use it in a VB.NET app to log off user sessions on a given server, and to retrieve the names of the workstations connected to those sessions. The code I have has a lot of p-invoke stuff and is rather unwieldy, but I can post it if you want.

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