Enabling Remote Desktop on Windows Server 2008 Core

On Windows Server 2008 Core you do not have a graphical interface, so how do you enable Remote Desktop?

1. Login to the server console.

2. To enable remote administration from Windows 2008 Server systems run:

> Cscript %windir%\system32\scregedit.wsf /ar 0

3. To enable remote administration from Windows 2003/Windows XP and earlier operating systems run:

> Cscript %windir%\system32\scregedit.wsf /ar 0
> Cscript %windir%\system32\scregedit.wsf /cs 0

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