Enabling Remote Desktop Access To A Windows 2008 R2 Core Services Server
This article provides the steps needed to enable Remote Desktop Access to a Windows 2008 R2 Core Services server.
To enable RDP access to a Windows 2008 R2 Core Service server perform the following steps :-
- Logon to the console of the Core Services Server as an administrative account
- At the command prompt execute the following :-
cscript %windir%\system32\SCRegEdit.wsf /ar 0
- To enable Administration Mode execute the following :-
cscript %windir%\system32\SCRegEdit.wsf /ar /v
Allowing Remote Desktop Access Through The Windows Firewall
If you have the Windows Firewall Enabled on the server you will need to add in a new Rule in order to connect to the server. To add in a new Rule to the Windows Firewall perform the following steps :-
- At the command prompt execute the following :-
netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group=”Remote Desktop” new enable=yes