Tag Archives: RDP

Windows Terminal Server: Microsoft Edge does not open when the same user has edge already opened

Hi,

Edge and Chrom can only be opened one time for a user. If a user has multiple sessions opened on a Windows Terminal Server with the same credenitals, edge can only start once time because the profile (UserDataDir) can only used by one instance. Otherwise the profile is getting corrupt.

A workaround is to assign each session a seperate UserDataDir. This has one disadvantage: Bookmarks and so on depends on the sessionname.

To start edge in multiple RDP session I used the following command line parameter. This sets the DataDir to the sessionname.

edge --user-data-dir=C:\Users\%UserName%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\Profile\%SESSIONNAME%

Another option is the %CLIENTNAME% variable. CLIENTNAME contains the Computername of the machine from which you establish the RDP session.

Michael

Windows: Get and decrypt password from rdp files

Hi,

rdp files can store the password for a connection. The password is protected with the users key who saved the file.
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Windows: Change your (Domain) Password in a remote Desktop Session

Hi,

short answer 🙂
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Windows: Clipboard not working

Hi,

when have opened a Remote Desktop Connection it sometimes happened that the clipboard stops working.

When you closing and reestablish the Remote Desktop Connection the clipboard functionally comes back.

But its also possible without closing the RDP Session:
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Windows: Hyper-V and Server Core start new cmd.exe

Hi,

you have closed the command shell window in your Session or you want to start an additional cmd shell or program?

At the console start the task Manager by pressing Alt-Ctrl-Del respectively if you are in a Remote Desktop Session Press Alt-Ctrl-End.

Start Task Manager
Start Task Manager

New Task
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