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Remote Desktop Connection (RDC, also called Remote Desktop, formerly known as Microsoft Terminal Services Client, or mstsc) is the client application for Remote Desktop Services. It allows a user to remotely log in to a networked computer running the terminal services server.

The Remote Desktop client uses an open protocol (Remote Desktop Protocol) developed by Microsoft, which provides a user with a graphical desktop experience interface to another computer.

A client comes with every version of Windows since XP, though each has different versions of the client. Upgrades are available from Microsoft to update the client in older versions.

A shortcut is provided on the Start Menu in the default installation of these versions of Windows.

The application is located by default in %windir%\system32\.

Screen shot:
Remote Desktop Connection

Screen shot of command line switches:
MSTSC Syntax

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MS server 2016 strd mstsc shadow undefined error after Jan update

4x Server 2016 standard edition running as VM's on Hyper-V. None of the Servers are in the domain. I was using cmd/powershell "mstsc /control /noConsentPrompt /shadow: x" to shadow local users sessions (long since after updating from Server 2008…
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Windows Remote Desktop (RDP/MSTSC) fails with Error Code: 5

I have 2 Windows XP boxen: A (running XP SP3) and B (running XP SP2). I'm using Remote Desktop to connect from A to B. When I connect, I get the login screen (which is slow to respond to keyboard/mouse input), and after logging in, I get the…
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RDS external Manifest with multiple monitors

One of our remote-workers has a Surfacebook (Win10 64-Bit) with a 3000x2000 resolution with which he connets to our RDS-Serverfarm (Win Serv 2012 R2) by RemoteApplication. No VPN or anything else, just RDS. We had performance Issues on his machine…
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SQL Server 2014 Setup Fails with Error 5 - Terminal Services Unsupported?

I am installing SQL Server 2014 on a hosted virtual machine using remote desktop. When I run setup command line options display using .\setup.exe /? , I get the following error: An error occurred during the SQL Server 2014 Setup operation. Error…
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MSTSC RDP over the public internet

My first question so please be gentle :) I have a client who is insisting that they have to let their third party vendor support access to there server directly from the internet via RDP. Our policy does not allow direct access to the infrastructure…
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Troubleshoot mstsc /span from Windows XP to Windows Server 2008

At work, I often use the "mstsc" command to use the Microsoft Terminal Services Client and remote to another machine. In my case, I'm using Windows XP (call this box 1) to connect to a Windows Server 2008 box (call this box 2). I'd like to be able…
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RDP file - authentication level doesn't work

I've set authentication level:i:0 in the RDP file, but when I connect to this computer with mstsc it asks me if I want to connect to this computer, so the parameter is ignored by the mstsc. How to fix it?
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MSTSC Not working, disconnects shortly after connecting

I'm currently having a problem connecting remotely to a server. It is a brand new build Windows 2008 R2, remote users are enabled. I'm trying to connect from a Windows 7 machine. Everytime I remotely connect to the server it will stay connected for…
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Microsoft Terminal Server clipboard corruption

I've got a client running Terminal Server 2008 R2, connecting from Windows XP terminal services client (not sure of the local RDP version, I think they've got all their service packs though) and whenever they copy text from the terminal server and…
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Pop-out of hyper-v window when connected to host through terminal services?

I sometimes use Terminal Services to remote into my work machine. Then, on my work machine, if I enter a Hyper-V window that's maximized, I can't figure out how to minimize the Hyper-V window to get back to my host machine. It's quite…
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Instructions for creating a clustered file share

I need foolproof instructions for creating a clustered file share on an existing 2-node SQL Server Failover cluster (Windows Server 2003). The scenario is that I have a non-cluster aware application installed on both nodes which needs to create and…
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Difference between .rdp file settings "alternate full address" and "full address"

When saving the connection info in mstsc to a .rdp file the configured remote computer name will appear like this: full address:s:rds.contoso.com However, when downloading .rdp files from RD Web Access, the files will have the target host name…
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Security layer issue

I have a collection of two RDS virtual servers RDS01 & RDS02 under Windows Server 2008 R2 and one RDS/REMOTEAPP virtual server APP01 under Windows Server 2012 R2. RDS01 & RDS02 has the same configuration RDS01 & RDS02 can ping APP01 ping…
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Preventing RDP screen to go black when minimized

I am running some automated scripts on VM nodes and using certain tools to create a video capture of whatever is happening on the screen. One of the limitations of the video capturing software is that the screen on the remote machine must be…
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TermService not working

my company stumbled upon this issue last week and it took us a while to find a solution. We didn't find anything similar on the net so I figured I might as well try to help others. We had a Win2012 server where TermService (Remote Desktop Service…
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