Windows Server 2012 R2 Archives

Enable remote desktop using Powershell

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#Enable remote desktop
(Get-WmiObject -Class "Win32_TerminalServiceSetting" -Namespace root\cimv2\terminalservices).SetAllowTsConnections(1)
(Get-WmiObject -class "Win32_TSGeneralSetting" -Namespace root\cimv2\terminalservices -Filter "TerminalName='RDP-tcp'").SetUserAuthenticationRequired(1)

#Enable PSRemoting
Enable-PSRemoting -Force
Winrm quickconfig

#Set firewall rules 
Set-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "Remote Desktop*" -enabled true


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#Enable remote desktop

(Get-WmiObject -Class "Win32_TerminalServiceSetting" -Namespace root\cimv2\terminalservices).SetAllowTsConnections(1)

(Get-WmiObject -class "Win32_TSGeneralSetting" -Namespace root\cimv2\terminalservices -Filter "TerminalName='RDP-tcp'").SetUserAuthenticationRequired(1)

#Enable PSRemoting

Enable-PSRemoting -Force

Winrm quickconfig

#Set firewall rules

Set-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "Remote Desktop*" -enabled true

Simple patch script

Recently i needed a quick way to automate patching and rebooting of servers in our data-center. We felt that just using standard WSUS with GPOs was to fuzzy and not specific enough regarding reporting after patching had completed. I could have set up our event log collection servers to alert any errors post-reboot, or i…

Jan Ryen

Jan Ryen

Windows Server 2012 R2

Enable remote desktop using Powershell

Simple patch script