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How To Enable RDP on Windows 2003 Command Line

Submitted by daemonchild on Wed, 2011-09-14 - 15:57
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Imagine that you've managed to connect to a Windows 2003 server via the command line, but that it isn't running Remote Desktop. Sounds a little odd I know, but as a dedicated user of Metasploit this will happen to you, believe me. It took some time to work out how to enable the Remote Desktop functionality from the command line. No amount of Googling seemed to provide a solution, so I've got one for you here.

Defining a Service Dependency for vCentre

Submitted by daemonchild on Wed, 2010-05-26 - 10:04
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When the vCentre Windows service starts, it tries to connect to its database. If the database is ready, then that's fine. If the database isn't properly started, then vCentre fails. Unfortunately,this is the usual case when you install the SQL database and vCentre on the same operating system. You reboot vCentre and it fails to start up automatically; you have to go and start the 'Virtual Center' service yourself. That's just rubbish.

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