Posts Tagged ‘RDP’

May 3 2009

How to enable Remote Desktop remotely

This article used to exist on www.shijaz.com before it was taken down in May 2009. Originally published in January 2008.

This article explains how you can enable Remote Desktop on a server that you do not have physical access to.
You’ve built new servers, updated them with the latest service pack, and even run Windows Update. Proud [...]

January 27 2009

Hyper-V Remote Administration

January 27, 2009
When you connect to a Windows Server 2008 computer running Hyper-V from a Windows Vista client, the mouse input is not captured when you connect to a guest machine unless you install the Integration Services on the guest machine. You receive the following message:

Mouse not captured in Remote Desktop session.
It is however, [...]

September 18 2008

Adding a node on a SQL 2005 cluster

In the absence of a dedicated SQL DBA at the place where I work, I take care of the SQL Servers too. (No comment.)
One of the passive nodes of a SQL Server 2005 cluster had died a sudden death (hard drive and RAID failed under mysterious circumstances) which necessitated a total rebuild of the failed [...]

May 15 2008

Slow Remote Desktop on Dell PowerEdge 2950 running Windows Server 2003 R2 x64

I’ve seen this problem when I prepare Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers using the Dell OpenManage Server Assistant 5.3 to install Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 with Service Pack 2.
Once the OS installation is complete, if you enable Remote Desktop and connect from a Windows Vista machine using RDP, the RDP session/screen refresh is kind of [...]

February 17 2008

Articles on enabling Remote Desktop

It’s been some time since I’ve written new articles on shijaz.com
I have added two new articles on Remote Desktop:

How to enable Remote Desktop “remotely”Discusses how to enable Remote Desktop on a machine that you do not have physical access to. Needs administrator privileges (of course!)
How to enable Remote Desktop on Windows Server 2008 [...]

January 8 2008

No more MSTSC.exe /CONSOLE

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Thats’ right. No more /console switch on the Windows Remote Desktop Connection tool, MSTSC.exe, [...]