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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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sfc /scannow win 2003 R2

I have win 2003 r2 when i'm trying to launch sfc /scannow an utility runs but closes in a couple of minutes. In event journal there are no errors. chkdsk shows no errors. I establish connection to this server via rdp with /admin /console…
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Router configuring without NAT

i just addes a fw to my network. it manages 2 WAN using load balancing.enter image description here a router i reached to configure, while the other no. in my netgear router i reset all settings, disabled NAT, imposed IPoA, disabled DHCP and no…
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RDC (mstsc.exe) remote access batch enable on clients?

Is there a way to enable connections via RDC on multiple computers running WinXP Pro SP3?
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Command line to switch from user session to console session

Windows Server 2003 If I already RDP to a remote host with user session, is there any command that I can switch to console session without closing current session and re-RDP again with "mstsc /console" parameter? Thanks. EDIT: After RDP to the…
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The RPC services keeps stopping

For some reason, the RPC service keeps stopping which prevents me from remoting into the server. When this happens I have to manually make my way to the server to restart it as simply starting the service (which does not complain when starting),…
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Is it possible to increase the size of mstsc's connection cache

On my windows box mstsc.exe caches the last ten hosts I connected to. However, I connect to about 15 on a regular basis, so increasing the number that the combobox remembers would be really welcome.
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Managing ougoing RDP sessions (MSTSC)

I am trying to automate a process where a user can establish an ssh tunnel in WSL then use that tunnel for an RDP connection using MSTSC. The same script might launch multiple instances of MSTSC using tunnels (i.e. in all cases the host would be…
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RDP session zero or /admin or /console to have a parallel session

end goal: to be able to connect to a Windows 2019 server via RDP without disconnecting the same user session. Say John is connected to RDP, and John want to connect from another client but doesn't want to kill the original session. so far I tried to…
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