rdp is Remote Desktop Protocol, used by Windows to view and control other Windows systems
RDP allows remote windows users to view and interact with a remote windows server as if they were sitting at that server's desktop.
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What happens when you type Exit in the CMD window on Server Core in an RDP session
I'm getting used to Server Core and I know at some point I am going to type "Exit" in the command window while connected through a remote desktop session.
I know that if this is done while connected to the local console, you can press Ctl-Alt-Del to…
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Can't Remote Desktop to server after rebooting via Remote Desktop
When I reboot a Windows 2003 or Windows 2008 server via a Remote Desktop connection, the server comes back up and will not accept any RDP connections: the RDP client errors out with "Connection Refused."
The Terminal Services service is running on…
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Only enable console session RDP on Windows server 2003
I need to limit 1 machine's RDP capabilities to only allow the console session(much as the windows client behaviour).
It is a windows server 2003 R2 std.
As far as I know I can limit the number of sessions(Active) in server 2003 rdp config. But no…
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RDP with NLA does not work, unless logging in locally first
When connecting to a remote PC, I get this error:
But if I walk to the remote PC, login (with the same credentials) and walk back, RDP suddenly works. This happens each day. The remote PC might be powered off in between (I'll check this in the…
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Where do files go if I lose a Remote Desktop session?
Where do files go if I lose a Terminal Services session and could reconnect until after my session had expired? Are they lost in the ether or would Windows save them somewhere?
Not sure if this matters, but I was working on a text file in Notepad…
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What makes RDP so great? Is it really faster than connecting to a VM via admin console?
I use VMWare Workstation as my virtualisation application, however, everyone really belives as RDP being the ultimate way to connect to a VM due to speed.
What makes RDP so great? Also, I remember seeing an advert on this site about an RDP…
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Remote Desktop Security
I currently run Remote Desktop on my home computer (Vista Ultimate). It is always on so I can access things from my home computer when I am not there. I have a linksys firewall and use port forwarding to allow access to the correct ports.
How secure…
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RDP file transfer via command line on Windows?
I'm making some automated deployment software leveraging Chef and Python for my internship. Unfortunately, the environment is completely airgapped aside from me being able to initialize and RDP connection from a client machine to one of the server.…
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Multiple RDP connections to the same user
Good afternoon everyone!
I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 and I would like to allow multiple RDP connections to the same user and session.
For example, if buddy1 connects to Admin user and Buddy2 connects to Admin user as well I would like them to…
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Forwarding ports over RDP protocol
I was assigned a task that needs to be performed on the corporate virtual machine. I'm connecting to a Windows 7 remote desktop over OpenConnect VPN. From there I have access to all network resources (mainly databases).
It's very tiring to work like…
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Can not RDP to Win 2003 box or initiate remote restart
I've got a Windows 2003 server that's at my remote data center. This morning I tried to connect to it via RDP, but the connection fails with the following error:
This computer can't connect to the remote computer.
Try connecting again. If the…
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Cannot map drive letter to redirected folder when using Microsoft Remote Desktop
I'm having some difficulty getting the Folder Redirection feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop to work with command line applications.
The server machine is running Windows 2008R2.
The client machine is OS X Yosemite, running Microsoft Remote…
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Remote Desktop Client toolbar default to pinned
One of our remote desktop client users likes to have the title bar always displayed. She used to be able to click the "tack" and pin the title bar down. However, the system is no longer remembering that setting. She has to pin the title bar each…
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Remote Desktop performance issues in Windows 2008
We're running an Application as a remote App using Remote Desktop on Windows server 2008, and we're getting situations where (after we've got about 40 people logged in) the server can freeze for a number of seconds (e.g. 20 seconds).
It doesn't…
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Add multi monitor option to remote desktop web access
I have a test environment for a remote desktop farm with a connection broker load balancing logins across remote desktop session host servers. All servers are built on Server 2012 R2. Using rd web access, we can access this farm from anywhere.
When…
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