Make Vista RDP Behave Like XP RDP
KB ID 0000098 Problem If Like me you haver to open multiple RDP sessions to lots of different clients, who all have differend domain names and passwords then the move to Vista can be a shock to the system, as far as RDP goes anyway. If you want to bend the version of RDP shipped with vista to behave like the old one did in XP you will need to the following. Solution 1. Locate your default.rdp file (it’s usually in my documents). 2....
Windows Change the RDP (Remote Desktop) Listening Port
KB ID 0000166 Problem If you didn’t already know the Remote Desktop Protocol Port is TCP 3389, that fine but what if you want to change it to something else? That begs another question, Why? Well some people like to change the port to something else, so that different ports are open in the even of a nasty type performing a port scan on your machine/firewall, even the most clueless script kiddies know that if they see TCP 3389...
Enable Aero for RDP “One or more of the themes has been disabled by Remote Desktop Connection settings”
KB ID 0000647 Problem If you have enabled Aero on your remote machine, when you connect to it via RDP you will see this error, (if you try and change the theme to Aero). One or more of the themes has been disabled by Remote Desktop Connection settings Solution 1. Close your RDP session, and launch the RDP client software again > Options > Experience > Place a tick in “Menu and window animation”. 2. Reconnect to...
Windows Server – Enable Multiple RDP sessions
KB ID 0000471 Problem Server 2012/2008 R2 unlike their predecessors, comes with the multiple remote desktop session restriction enabled. If you are only connecting to a server for remote administration purposes that can get a bit annoying, especially if you have a generic administrative account that multiple techs are using, and you keep kicking each other off the server. Just as with earlier versions of Windows server you CAN have...
Windows – Enable Two RDP Sessions
KB ID 0000554 Problem If you have Windows (Professional, Enterprise or ultimate) you can already connect to it remotely using RDP. Unlike Windows Server 2008/2003/2000 which can have two concurrent RDP connections for remote administration, Windows client operating systems can only have one. If someone is logged into the machine and you connect in, it simply kicks them out to the login page. This was never a problem for me until I...