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Remote Desktop Tips and Tricks

I'm with K. Scott Allen: the pervasiveness of Remote Desktop functionality in Windows has fundamentally changed the way I work. The fact that it shipped in the Windows XP box-- and as a default component of all the server operating systems since Windows 2000-- has done wonders for

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VNC vs. Remote Desktop

Microsoft's Remote Desktop [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Desktop_Protocol] is incredibly convenient. It's the next best thing to physically being in front of the target computer-- and it's by far the fastest remoting protocol I've ever used. Over a fast

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Remotely Managing Remote Desktop

Some of my coworkers have an annoying habit of remoting into our Win2k servers and never logging out. They also like to do this in pairs, which means nobody else can remote into the machines due to Microsoft’s default two-user administrative mode Terminal Services limit. Yeah, I could rclient

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