Changes to Remote Admin in Windows Server 2008

Last Saturday during the IT-Talks UG meeting I was talking about the fact that with RDP 6.1 the /console switch has been depreciated and to connect to a console session on a W2K3 box you now need to use the /admin switch. With the /console switch you remotely connected to the physical console session of the server which is also known as session 0. Because in Windows 2008 the session 0 is a non-interactive session that is reserved for services.

You can use the new /admin switch to remotely connect to a Windows Server 2008-based server for administrative purposes. The /admin switch is introduced with RDC 6.1. RDC 6.1 is included with the following operating systems:

• Windows Server 2008

• Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) Beta and RC

• Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) Beta and RC

RDC 6.1 does not support the /console switch. However, for backward compatibility, you can use the /admin switch to connect to the physical console session on a Windows Server 2003-based server. For example, to connect from a Windows Vista SP1 RC-based client to the physical console session of a Windows Server 2003-based server, you can run the command mstsc.exe /admin.

Do you want to know why this have changed?

Continue at source: https://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/2007/12/17/changes-to-remote-administration-in-windows-server-2008.aspx

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