In situations when you unable to connect to remote WS 2008 box via RDS due to Windows Firewall being enabled without inbound RDS rule enabled you may try to enable required firewall rule remotely. If PS on machine in question is configured for remoting you may open remote PS session on this machine, using following … How to: Remotely enable inbound Remote Desktop rule in Windows Server 2008 R2 firewall
Apart from obvious ways to do it via Windows Server GUI which is the long way (plus if you working with multiple versions like Server 2003 and 2008 it differs slightly and requires you to remember the “path” through GUI to find this information) there are CLI tool to accomplish this: qwinsta available starting from Windows XP, if … How to: do a quick check on who is connected to the server via RDP
To add all known RDS license servers to specified license servers list you could use RDS Host Configuration console (tsconfig.msc), but in Windows Server 2008 R2 GUI doesn’t allow for multiple select and therefore if you need to add all known license servers via GUI it is a little bit inconvenient. Better option to accomplish this … How to: add all known RDS license servers to specified license servers list
