Enabling RDP on a server remotely.

There’s very litte more annoying in a windows environment than having to go to a console of a server because some idiot has disabled remote administration on a server 2003/2000 server. I was in this situation recently and decided not to go to the console out of principle.

I wrote the following program in order to get around this issue. Its called RDPon.exe and you can get it here:

With this you can:

• Query RDP status
• Enable RDP
• Disable RDP

I have sealed it as an exe so that you can right click it and choose run as to get at your admin account easily.

Vision app for remote desktops.

Up until recently if i needed to open a remote desktop to a server i was using the microsoft remote desktops tool. As with all microsoft “value-add” products. It was Clunky, awkward and very buggy.

I often found that it would crash for no reason, the credentials even when explicitly defined wouldnt work, when disconnected and reconnecting to a session it was a game of chance whether you actually got your old session back and there was no way of telling which server you were logged into at a glance without actually clicking each server icon.

When i started in here a few months ago, i received a copy of VisionApp VRD and i havent once looked back. It has all the features the windows version should have. You can organise your servers by Groups, Set multiple credentials, View what servers you are logged into and best yet it doesnt crash!

Give it a whirl if you need software of this type, its freeware afterall