What is the significance of the "Connect to Console"...

[Guest Rob]

....option in RDP? How is different from a regular RDP session.

 

Thx.

[Guest Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: What is the significance of the "Connect to Console"...

 

A connection to the console of a Windows 2003 server connects you

to session 0, which is the same session as the one that you get

when you log on to the physical console of the server.

There are 2 advantages with connecting to the console session:

 

1. If you have an application running on the physical console of

the server, you will be able to interact with it when you connect

to the console session

2. If the server runs Terminal Services (as apposed to just remote

Desktop for Administration), then the connection to the console is

the only connection which is still free from any TS CAL

requirements.

 

Note that this will change in Windows 2008 TS.

When you connect to a Windows 2008 server, the /console flag will

be ignored.

Session 0 still exists on a 2008 server, but it hosts only services

and is not an interactive session anymore.

 

Console Behavior Differences in Longhorn Server Terminal Services

http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/2006/11/27/console-behavior-

differences-in-longhorn-server-terminal-services.aspx

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Vera Noest

MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net

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=?Utf-8?B?Um9i?= <Rob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on 12 okt

2007 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> ...option in RDP? How is different from a regular RDP session.

>

> Thx.