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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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How to block rdp passwords brute-forcing?

I've noticed there are significant spikes in cpu consumption on my servers due to bots trying to brute force my rdp password. I tried to change an rdp port, it helps for a while but then it resumes. Blocking all ips except mine works reasonably well…
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How to initialize sound in VirtualBox's VRDP?

On my Gentoo Linux host, running VirtualBox 1.6.28, I'm unable to negotiate a VRDP (RDP-4 version) connection because the rdesktop-vrdp client fails to initialize sound so it doesn't connect at all as a consequence, even if the VM has no sound…
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Is it safe to use Internet-facing RDP in combination with IP-whitelisting on Windows Firewall?

I am using a VPS that I connect to using RDP over the internet. Since I was experiencing an incessant stream of brute force attacks on the RDP, I configured the windows firewall to only allow certain IP-addresses to connect. This seems to work like…
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Terminal server without audio card. Is virtual sound over rdp connections possible?

I have a terminal server that is windows 2016. When I open sound in the botton right, it states that there are no devices that support sound (device manager doesn't show anything for sound either). A few posts from close to 10 years ago discussed a…
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Making applications hosted on third machine available through RDP?

We have a RDP "jump box" which is the only machine on our local network allowed to get incoming RDP connections. Is there a way to make applications on another machine (not the jump box, but on the same network) available on the RDP-jump box without…
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EBS Won't Size Correctly Windows Instance

My root volume won't expand to the size the EC2 console shows we've set the drive to. The C:\ should be 1.5 TB but only shows as 50 GB. The option to expand the volume isn't present in the disk management. seems that drive C cannot be able to…
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How to force disconnect from Windows Remote Apps command line

I have a RDP connection that is initiated by a RD Gateway website. Login and everything works well. But sometimes the connection becomes a ghost, or if i want to login as another user on the same RD Gateway via RDP i have to manually press…
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RDP Windows server 2019

I'm connecting to one windows server 2019 from another windows server 2019 through RDP, when i close the connection using the "X" button and then try to open new RDP connection i get a timeout on this new RDP, however on the other hand if i "logout"…
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Prevent EC2 User from Seeing AWS Secrets and Credentials

Preface: I use a windows EC2 instance with a role attached that allows it access to specific AWS Secrets Manager secrets. We never use access keys directly. The app running on the instance needs to be able to pull these secrets. The end-user of this…
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How to reserve a processor in Windows Server for Remote Desktop

Windows Server 2012 R2, every once in a while a runaway process will take up all the CPU and my RDP session will either take forever to start or disconnect after a long wait. Is there a way to reserve a CPU so that I never have an issue Remoting…
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No User exists for 'query user'

I have one weird issue on the virtual machine. When I do 'query user user1' is not showing the active session of the user. It says 'No User exists for user1', though there is active connection. However it works fine for other users. Why is this…
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How to find admin which logged off my RDP session

I recently discovered that since some days, someone often logs off my RDP session to our jump admin server when I have disconnected my session (which then terminates any long-running task I may have running on that machine). Now I want to know who…
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Linux equivalent to "query user /server:my-server-address"

The command from the title displays all connected users for my terminal server. Is there an equivalent linux command to display the same information?
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Securely connecting to clients via RDP over VPN

I have a network connectable by VPN, and want to limit most users to only be able to access certain hosts, indirectly. It consists of several Windows hosts that will be connected by RDP. I'm more of a general guy and don't have so much knowledge…
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Printers not redirecting when RD session host role is installed (winserver 2019)

as the title says, printers will not redirect to the remote server when that role is installed, everything works fine if i remove the role, but the thing is, without the role i can't control the licenses (even tho the licenses adm role is still…
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