Have a machine you want to connect to, but remote desktop isn’t enabled? As long as you have administrator access to that machine you can enable remote desktop very easily from another machine on the same network. Just use Regedit and connect to the remote machine’s registry and make one change.
Change Dword value: hklm/ system/ currentcontrolset/ control/ terminal server/ fDenyTSConnections from 1 to 0
Of course you can do this from the command line if you have PSExec:
psexec \\computername/ipip reg add “hklm\system\currentcontrolset\control\terminal server” /f /v fDenyTSConnections /t REG_DWORD /d 0
You should also be able to do this with WMI:
wmic /node:”FQDN Name” RDTOGGLE WHERE ServerName=”HostName” CALL SetAllowTSConnections 1
For XP you may need to do this instead:
wmic /node:”HOSTNAME” path win32_terminalservicesetting where servername=”HOSTNAME” call SetAllowTSConnections 1
You can connect to the “console 0″ session from a command line:
mstsc /v:x.x.x.x /console – for rdp clients before v5
mstsc /v:x.x.x.x /admin – for rdp clients v6 or higher
Exchange memory management follows the “Law of Two Year Olds”, which goes something like this:
If it’s in my hands, it’s mine.
If I like it, it’s mine.
If it looks like mine, it’s mine.
If I saw it first, it’s mine.
If I can take it away from you, it’s mine.
If I had it a while ago, it’s still mine.
If I’m doing or building something, all the pieces are mine.
If you put something down within my reach, it’s mine.
If it’s mine, it must never appear to be yours in any way.
If it’s broken, I didn’t do it.
If you have one, where’s mine?
Pretty much sums it up, doesn’t it?
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There are others out there (siteuptime, internetseer).
Anyone using any of these services? Comments?
It’s no joke… Next meeting is April 1, 2010 – Video Conferencing
This month we’ll take a look at video conferencing technologies.
Our guest speaker, Jeff Giampa from Polycom will discuss:
* State of the industry
* Cost justification by elimination of travel expenses
* Current real-world capabilities
* Bandwidth requirements
* Polycom vs. Cisco Tele-presence
* The others: Skype, Microsoft OCS, etc.
Meeting Location:
Hilton Garden Inn, 100 High Street, Portsmouth, NH, 03801