Remote desktop is the de facto admin tool, for many Windows Server administrators. But, what do you do if remote desktop stops taking connections and you don’t have easy physical access to the server? During this episode of TR Dojo, I show you a cool registry hack that lets you remotely enable or disable remote desktop.

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