RDP: how to show black screen during session

Question

Hi all,
I should connect to a remote PC via a Remote Desktop Connection.
This PC is located in a meeting room and my boss asked me to hide what I'm doing during the session (to avoid showing to customers there).
Is there a way to do that?

thanks!
Ale

Answer 1

Hi Ale,

I'm sorry to keep you waiting.

The Windows home version cannot be remote, but it can be used as a client to initiate a remote connection. It has Remote Desktop Connection App (Mstsc.exe).
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Best regards

Answer 2

With RDP you start an own session on the remote host, shown only in you RDP client, nowhere else

It's a not like a remote control software like TeamViewer or VNC, where everthing is shared.

Answer 3

excellent!
thank you Olaf!!!

Answer 4

I've just tried and, when I start a remote desktop session, the local user is logged out...

it seems a mutually exclusive behavior: only one user can be logged in at a time (indeed, when I log in the local user, the RDP is suddenly closed)

is this the behavior you meant just above in your answer?

Answer 5

Hi Ale,

First of all, remote users can connect to their Windows client computers through the Remote Desktop Services (RDP) running on the Pro and Enterprise editions (but not on Home/Single Language).
But there is a restriction on the number of simultaneous RDP sessions – only one remote user can work at a time.
That's why if you try to open a second RDP session, a warning appears asking you to disconnect the first user session.

Let's focus on the RDS itself by design. The number of simultaneous RDP connections is limited rather by the license (then by any technical aspect).
Therefore, this restriction does not allow to create a terminal RDP server based on the workstation that can be used by multiple users.
Microsoft’s logic is simple: if you need a Remote Desktop server – buy a Windows Server license, RDS CALs, install and configure the Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH) role.

In such case, I'd like to recommend you deploy RD Session Host.
It implements feature which multiple users concurrent working and share the same RD Session Host server.
You could refer the following steps to deploy the Remote Desktop servers in your environment.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/rds-deploy-infrastructure

Best regards