{"id":59,"date":"2018-11-21T19:44:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T19:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unsrewiki.1sys1.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2018-11-22T12:58:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T12:58:02","slug":"remote-desktop-rdp-license-workaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/2018\/11\/21\/remote-desktop-rdp-license-workaround\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote Desktop (RDP) License Workaround"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Once in a while you will get a Windows Dedicated Server \nthat has all of the CAL&#8217;s used and will need to log in to the server. \nHere is a workaround to bypass the license shortage and allow a Remote \nDesktop connection. Instead of launching a normal Remote Desktop \nsession, run the following command in the Command Prompt substituting \nthe customer&#8217;s IP address for the example shown below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">mstsc \/v:74.208.68.26 \/admin\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>This will launch a Remote Desktop login that looks exactly the same as the normal one, but will allow you to bypass the licensing issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"532\" src=\"https:\/\/unsrewiki.1sys1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/RDPAdmin.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62\" srcset=\"https:\/\/server-help.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/RDPAdmin.png 696w, https:\/\/server-help.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/RDPAdmin-300x229.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once in a while you will get a Windows Dedicated Server that has all of the CAL&#8217;s used and will need to log in to the server. Here is a workaround to bypass the license shortage and allow a Remote Desktop connection. Instead of launching a normal Remote Desktop session, run the following command in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}