Smartly enable Windows 2003 Remote Desktop

  

Remote Desktop is a cool feature in Windows Server 2003 that allows you to remotely log in to a machine and work on it as if you were sitting in front of that machine ( In Windows 2000 Advanced Server Edition, this feature is called Terminal Services in Remote Management mode. Remote Desktop acts like a lifeguard for repairing server failures remotely. However, what if you forgot to enable this feature before shipping the server to the field? If the server is in front of you, it is of course easy to enable remote desktop: just log in as an administrator, open "System" in the "Control Panel", select the "Remote" tab, and then select the checkbox in the remote desktop" Allow users to connect to this computer remotely".

Unfortunately, you can't use the system utility on a remote machine to enable remote desktop (although you use Computer Management to connect to the remote computer by right-clicking the console, right click on the root node and select "Properties" You can access some of the properties tabs of the "system" of the remote computer, but the "remote" tab is not accessible, as shown in Figure 1. Here the remote computer is named SRV220).
Figure 1


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