Group-Policy

Remotely Enable Remote Desktop

I work in a lab environment, so most of the windows XP machines i enable remote desktop for easy access. All new machines have remote desktop enabled via group policy.

The GP is located here; (link were appropriate in AD structure)

Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, Windows Components, Terminal Services, – > Allows users to connect remotely using Terminal Services setting. Enable this.

If you don’t have a domain or don’t have group policy implemented you can still enable remote desktop via the reg command in XP. Here is an example;