Windows Server Remote Desktop Connection - The Console

Did you ever need access to your server's console remotely and only have remote desktop? Knowing that remote desktop on a server is actually a terminal session and you can't get to see what is actually running on the desktop. Sometimes this is needed if there is a data engine or what not running that is only accessible from the console.

There are some solutions like install VNC in a remote desktop session and start the VNC server. Then connect to the server console using VNC viewer. This method is pretty effective but what if you didn't want that installed?

Try this click, Start, Run. Type "mstsc /console" without quotes. The "mstsc" command is Microsoft Terminal Server Client, aka Remote Desktop but the /console allows full access to the console similar to Windows XP remote desktop. Try it out.