Customizing the windows server 2008 RDP login screen possible?

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Published on 2010-03-22T11:03:29Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 11:11 UTC
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Hi,
I'm working with RDP sessions quite frequently. As we work in teams and all use the same user account on a particular computer (I know...) I was wondering if there was a way to display from which computer (hostname, computername) the person is connecting.
The login screen I get when two users are already connected looks like this (german):

rdp login

I'd love it, if the screen would display from where the logged in user is connecting e.g. "COMPUTER\user connected from MYCOMPUTERNAME". This way I would know whom to ask to disconnect so I can hop onto the session.
If I remember correctly the login screen looked different for previous Windows versions including this connection information. Any way I can easily enable this or is this just standard windows behavior and there is no way to tell from where the user is connecting (btw: Task Manager shows the computername of the connected user).

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