Just rebuilt my Vista machine with an RC1 version of Vista SP1 and got caught by this one.
Oct 16, 2017 Note. In Windows Server 2008 R2, Terminal Services was renamed Remote Desktop Services. To find out what's new in the latest version, see What s New in Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012 in the Windows Server TechNet Library. Nov 06, 2017 Remote Desktop (mstsc.exe) Command Line Arguments mstsc.exe is the built-in client software which allows connecting to a computer via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). It is a special network protocol which allows a user to establish a connection between two computers and access the Desktop of a remote host. How to run Remote Desktop Console using command line. If you may wan to run Desktop Console from a batch file, for example RDC over VPN, you can use mstsc /v:servername /console command.
Sep 25, 2019 mstsc.exe /CONSOLE. You must be an administrator on the computer that is accessing the console session. You cannot access a console session from a computer running Microsoft Windows XP Home edition. But you can do so from a computer running Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista, or Windows 7.
In both Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008, the Remote Desktop Program has been updated to version 6.1 (6.0.6001) and one of the changes is that the functionality previously associated with the /console switch is now called the /admin switch. Wasted a few hours chasing this one down. Intel g41 express chipset driver for windows 10 32 bit. We use a lot of remote desktop connectivity with virtualization so more than a handful of people are going to get caught.
Windir System32 Mstsc.exe /console
If you use 'mstsc /v:servername /console' in a script file then the /console will be ignored (with no warning) and you will be connected to a normal session that is not the server console. If you specify the /console switch in the RDC GUI connection dialog then it will tell you 'an unknown parameter was specified in the computer name field'.
All is good if you use /admin instead of /console. It would have been great if the developers had seen fit to at least detect the /console switch and issue a message along the lines of '/console no longer supported, use /admin instead' but I guess that's why blogs exist.
Anyway, there is a detailed discussion on the rationale behind the change here: