If you’re like most IT professionals, you use remote desktop to access servers and workstations from your office. But what if you want to take a closer look at the server console? In this article, we’ll show you how to remotely desktop to the actual server console on Windows 2003. ..


Start the remote desktop client from the command line or the Start/Run dialog with this command:

You can now select the server you wish to connect to, and you will connect to the server console session instead of a seperate session.

If you want to see the usage dialog, type mstsc /?