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1. #Enable remote desktop from computer management windows 10
2. #Enable remote desktop from computer management password

You will now see a warning because the VPS has a self-signed SSL certificate by default.

#Enable remote desktop from computer management password

Then enter your username and password and click 'OK'.įrom now on, when you connect to this VPS with MSTSC you will see the following screen: Therefore, click 'More choices'> 'Use a different account'.

#Enable remote desktop from computer management windows 10

You should not enter your Windows 10 credentials however, but those of your VPS. In Windows 10, the first time you connect to your VPS you get a screen with the option to log in with your Windows 10 user account. You will now see a prompt asking for the log-in credentials of a user account. Tip: If you click 'Show Options' here and then click the 'Local Resources' tab, you can also add your local disks where you can then move / copy files to and from inside Remote Desktop. In the application that you have now opened, you will be asked for the IP address (this can also be a hostname if you have linked it via DNS) and the username of the VPS, enter it and click 'Connect'. Open 'Remote Desktop Connection' - the application is called mstsc.exe. You can now test whether making a connection is successful from your own Windows computer. It may then take a few seconds, but after, the Remote Desktop status in the Server Manager should change to Enabled. Click 'Apply' to enable the RDP connection to the server. Then click the three different lines below one by one and on the right side click 'Enable Rule':Ĭlose the Windows Firewall screen. Scroll down to the rules for 'Remote Desktop'.

Click 'Windows Firewall with Advanced Security' to go to the firewall settings (you can also do this later).Ĭlick the 'Inbound Rules' in the upper left corner to adjust the firewall rules for inbound traffic. You will now see the 'System Properties', change the selected option from 'Don’t allow remote connections to this computer' to the option below, 'Allow remote connections to this computer'.Ī prompt about the Windows Firewall appears. One of the options which is visible is Remote Desktop, whose status is 'Disabled' by default. The use of this is beyond the scope of this manual. In Server 2019, a new web-based Admin Center has been added, of which you will see a notification when you open the browser.