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Andy Schneider is a Systems Engineer at Avanade, a company that was started in 2000 to merge leading enterprise technology solutions with cutting-edge business consulting capabilities. Andy is a member of the IT Infrastructure Hosting team for Avanade's IT Services. He focuses on virtualization using Hyper-V and has done a lot of work with NetApp storage devices. Andy uses PowerShell on a daily basis to manage Hyper-V, Microsoft Clusters, and NetApp storage devices. When Andy is not writing PowerShell code, you can find him spending time with his beautiful wife and two daughters or working out at Kirkland Crossfit. You can find Andy's personal PowerShell blog at http://get-powershell.com and follow him on twitter at @andys146.

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Remote Desktop mstsc /admin

August 4, 2009 at 10:08 PM — Andy Schneider

For some reason back when Vista came out, MS changed the /console switch from /console to /admin for MSTSC.exe which is used to connect to remote desktop sessions.

I find myself using /admin when there are already two users logged on and I can’t get in without knocking someone off.

A friend of mine showed me a nifty trick that I thought was worth sharing.

You can use the /admin switch in the Remote Desktop window itself. You don’t have do go back to the run menu or a ~~cmd~~ PowerShell prompt and run mstsc /console.

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dwmexe says:

October 25, 2010 at 12:10 PM

I admire the persistence you place into your blog. I wish I'd the same drive

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