Managing non-domain joined server is a topic included in 70-410 exam updated for Server 2012 R2. Essentially it requires you to know some extra steps involved into making Server Manager work for you when you need to manage non-domain joined server (either one resided in workgroup or in non-trusted domain). Unfortunately book I’m using to prepare … How to manage non-domain joined server using Server Manager
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
/admin key is usually used for RDS server administration. When you use mstsc.exe /admin to connect to the Windows Server with RDS role installed it does the following for the initiated connection:\n\n- Disables RDS client access licensing\n\n- Disables timezone redirection\n\n- Disables RD Connection Broker redirection\n\n- Disables RD Easy Print\n\n- Disables PnP device redirection for this connection … What /admin key for mstsc.exe actually does
