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If you support SBS and are like most IT Pros, you have probably logged into a server in the evening and been working on one thing or another and up pops the scheduled SBS backup. That is, if you always use the console session as it  is a best practice (mstsc /console).

As an aside, I always encourage technicians’ to log off of sessions when done; console or otherwise. This not only frees up memory by unloading tasks such as explorer.exe or any other thing that happens to interactively run based on a user logon, it also allows someone else to logon "behind" you thereby avoiding them the hassle of "the terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections" error. I have also heard reports of problems being caused when snap-ins utilizing MMC are left open in remote sessions.

Getting back to the point, if you see the native backup launch under SBS while doing maintenance, you can safely log-off when done as the SBS integrated backup, while it does display interactively, runs under the context of the ‘SBS Backup User’ and therefore logging off of your session will not effect the backup in any way.

Just thought that would be good to throw out there.