Wednesday, 19 March 2008

Accessing the console session (session ID 0) using Remote Desktop

1. Open the Group Policy snap-in (Gpedit.msc).
2. In the left pane, under the Computer Configuration branch, expand the Administrative Templates branch.
3. Expand the Windows Components branch.
4. Click the Terminal Services folder.
5. In the right pane, double-click "Sets rules for remote control of Terminal Services user sessions".
6. On the Setting tab, click Enabled.
7. In the Options box, click Full Control with users' permission, and then click OK

Another way to open the console session (session ID 0) is to issue the command:
mstsc /v:<server name or IP address> /admin /console