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Enabling Remote Desktop on Windows Server Core

Enable Remote Desktop (RDP) on Windows Server Core from the command line.

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Enabling RDP

Microsoft ships a script with Windows Server Core that modifies the registry entry fDenyTSConnections and can thereby allow or deny Remote Desktop connections. The /ar parameter specifies the value fDenyTSConnections gets (0 = allow, 1 = deny):

cscript.exe "%windir%\system32\SCRegEdit.wsf /ar 0"

Setting the firewall rule

If Windows Firewall is active, you also have to enable the “Remote Administration” rule:

netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="Remote Administration" new enable=yes

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