Entries for month: February 2008
Where did the /console switch for the RDP client in Vista SP1 go?
Posted by TomasF | Tags: Software , Work Stuff
What a great way to waste a lot of time when you're in a hurry. After having installed Vista on my newly rebuilt PC after christmas, I was setting up my rdp shortcuts to my Windows 2003 Server in the quick launch bar as usual, and I ran into a problem. It turns out I couldn't connect to the console session of the server, even if the shortcut used to launch the rdp file included the /console switch
mstc myrdpfile.rdp /console
After a bit of digging, and some help from Gerryn on IRCNet, it turns out that the reason was that /console had been removed from the RDP client, and this change was not in Vista, but in Vista SP1 (I had installed SP1 RC refresh immediately after installing Vista due to Vistas completely unacceptable performance without it).
Armed with this extra bit of knowledge I found a post by Nick MacKechnie describing the change and explaining that this had been replaced by the /admin switch which is better suited for the new features of Windows 2008.
Unfortunately the description in the switch listing for mstsc.exe could be clearer:
