What is the Registry Key for Enabling Remote Desktop?
Posted by Kevin Lim on August 28, 2008
Remote Desktop (mstsc.exe) is a handy tool to support remote user. Most important, it comes free and shipped with standard MS Windows operating system like MS Windows XP, 2003, Vista, etc.
Below is the screen shot for enabling Remote Desktop via My Computer –> System Properties
What is the way to enable this setting across the domain?
There is no standard setting can be configured via Group Policy.
Below is the command to enable Remote Desktop via registry setting. You may deploy this command via a logon script.
”reg add “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Curre ntControlSet\Control\Terminal Server” /v fDenyTSConnections /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f”.
For Ad Hoc, you can connect to the remote computer via Registry Editor and add fDenyTSConnections (REG_DWORD) to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Curre ntControlSet\Control\Terminal Server with value of 0.
