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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 can I enable RDP over VPN only?

I have a SBS 2003 server with Terminal Services enabled. Currently I am able to RDP to my server by going to www.mydomain.com. I would like to restrict RDP access to my network to be over VPN only. However, I am worried I will accidentally…
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Minimal OS that boots into RDP login prompt?

I'm doing some research into thin clients. I've configured an RDP server on a home PC with Linux. I have an older desktop computer that I want to use as a thin client. Although I could just install an RDP client on its current OS (Windows XP), I'm…
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Multiple RDP connections on one session

I've found out how to have multiple sessions per user, but I need multiple connections to ONE session, like the program TeamViewer is able to do, where multiple people can connect to 1 computer, and see the same windows, etc. I am running Windows…
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Opening RDP Files with browser

In my organization, we are planning to make RDP files available via web browser. The hope is that users can just point their browsers to one or the other RDP file and have the remote desktop client launched automatically by the browser. What I'm…
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Is there any way to configure Windows 7 RDP to require a client certificate to login

Is there any way to configure a Windows 7 RDP to require a client certificate to login. So user need to use the certificate and password (just like SSH or client-side certificates in HTTP) If there is, could you point me a step by step article?
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Strange RDP / Remote Desktop problem

I'll try to be as specific as I can be: Server is running SBS 2008 R2 (with all updates) Server is connected to the internet Server has 2 NIC's, one is disabled Server is running RDP Service (accessible directly from the internet, I know, not as…
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Am I looking at the console when I use remote desktop?

When I'm using remote-desktop to a Windows 2003 server, I'd like to have some way of knowing if I'm looking at the console session. Is there please some way I can have something (such as a special wallpaper backdrop) that only comes on with the…
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Black screen after login to Windows Server on GCP

I have a problem when I launch a remote desktop that I created in Google Cloud Platform. I have a black screen and a command line on it. I can’t do anything. What is the problem and what should I do?
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Hardening a file-serving Windows Server 2019 instance

I'm in the process of re-configuring and securing a server for the small company that I work for. We use it to store design files and other data with Autodesk Vault. It's running on a VPS from a server provider close by. The reason I'm doing this is…
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Unable to RDP into Server 2016 after adding custom RDP certificate

We have a Server 2016 running AD Certificate Services. Our team was asked to create a new RDP certificate so that the self-signed certificate errors would go away when RDP'ing into the system. Went ahead and generated the new certificate and…
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RDP exits immediately with no warning on Server 2008 R2 with NLA on

You know the CVE-2019-0708 is around and everyone is looking for a PoC, and I followed this article to do some workaround to harden my old windows server. Yes, I enabled NLA. The NLA is working. But after a reboot, the NLA is not working properly, I…
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Microsoft RemoteApp via TS Gateway initial connection load very long (over 2 minutes)

The Enviroment We do have a RemoteApp Terminalserver, based on a Windows Server 2016. Latest Updates are installed. We have provisioned multiple apps through this server. There is one Session Collection with all app's in it. This server has no…
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Is there any hotkey to exit from shadow?

How can I close shadow window without using mouse? Is there any hotkey? My aims is to avoid move user mouse cursor, when I've decided to exit. In Windows 2008 R2 I was able to use Ctrl + * or another hotkey which I choiced when entered to shadow.
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Can't RDP to windows 2016 server after reboot, while another computer can

We had launched a windows server 2016 in a VM hosted environment, applied both CIS Benchmark for windows server 2016 level 1 and CIS benchmark for IIS 10 level 1. At this point all of the three computers can RDP to it. But after rebooting the…
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Can I RDP through mstsc and run a script on that remote desktop?

I'm writing a powershell script which needs to RDP to a few servers and do processes there and then come back. mstsc /v: by itself looks great as it's security/credential prompt is the same as if you manually executed it. However, after…
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