Efficiency or Laziness, either way job done.

How often have you needed to remote into a system that is on the other side of the campus to fix an issue and found that Remote Desktop isn’t enabled and the remote management application’s service bombed.  Resulting in (Heaven Forbid!) getting up from your desk and walking to the machine and working on it locally…. (gasp! you might have to interact with people!)

Well no more friends do you need to leave the comfort of your chair, your beverage and your snack…and risk human interaction, here are the lazy steps (blatantly copied from  mydigitallife.info).

I have to admit I spent about 5 minutes, quite possibly more time than walking to the machine I needed to fix, searching steps to remotely enable Remote Desktop on a workstation…. But it is ok since it was during a work night and the building was closed and I wasn’t avoiding anyone by my working remotely!

To remotely enable Remote Desktop on another computer, follow these steps:

• Login to the workstation with administrator credentials.
• Run Registry Editor (regedit).
• Click on File menu.
• Select the Connect Network Registry in the pull down menu.

• A “Select Computer” dialog search box is opened. Type the host name of the remote computer in the text box, or browse Active Directory to locate the remote server, or click on “Advanced” button to search for the remote computer.

• Click OK after the remote computer is selected. A node for the remote computer network registry will be displayed in the Registry Editor with HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (HKLM) and HKEY_USERS (HKU) hives.

• Navigate to the following registry key for the remote computer:

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server

• In the right pane, locate a REG_DWORD value named fDenyTSConnection. Double-click on fDenyTSConnection and change the value data from 1 (Remote Desktop disabled) to 0 (Remote Desktop enabled).

  

• Reboot the remote machine by issuing the following command in Command Prompt:

  shutdown -m \\hostname -r

  Replace hostname with the actual computer name of the remote host.

• Remote Desktop for the remote computer has been enabled, and listening on default Remote Desktop port for any incoming Remote Desktop Connection.

Another option that works is via this handy application Enable Remote Desktop-Remotely by Intelliadmin.com