{"id":8451,"date":"2020-08-18T17:22:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T17:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siliconhouse.net\/support\/?page_id=8451"},"modified":"2020-08-18T17:22:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T17:22:49","slug":"how-to-enable-rdp-in-windows-server-2016","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.siliconhouse.net\/support\/how-to-enable-rdp-in-windows-server-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"How to enable the RDP access in Windows server 2016 ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Silicon House&nbsp;is a complete solution provider for&nbsp;reseller hosting,&nbsp;dedicated servers&nbsp;and&nbsp;cloud servers. Our expertise is in implementing high availability, high performance and hybrid cloud \/ dedicated servers.Silicon House runs hundreds of servers serving 1000+ customers in more than 90+ countries.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>This article helps the customer to enable rdp in windows server 2016 &nbsp;. RDP helps to Easily monitor, control and maintain devices connected to the network , Quickly troubleshoot using the remote access , Effortlessly access the files on connected devices, servers or network ,Define the access rights to files and folders for different categories of users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0To enable RDP in windows server 2016 , follow the steps below;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1.Open Server Manager. By default Server Manager will open when you log in to the GUI, otherwise you can select it from the task bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2.Within the Server Manager window, select Local Server from the left hand side. You may need to wait a little for it to detect the current state of your system. You should see that Remote Desktop is listed as Disabled<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3.Click on the Disabled text which will open the System Properties window in the Remote tab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4.From the System Properties window, select \u201cAllow remote connections to this Computer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5.Once you select \u201cAllow remote connections to this computer\u201d the below warning message will appear, advising that this will create the required firewall rules in Windows firewall to allow remote desktop traffic in from any source address, select OK to proceed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6.At this point you can optionally click the \u201cSelect Users\u2026\u201d button to define specific users or groups that have permission to connect via remote desktop. Select the OK button to close out of the System Properties window and enable remote desktop<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7.Back in Server Manager, Remote Desktop may still show as Disabled until you refresh the view. After clicking the refresh button as highlighted below, the status should update to Enabled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon House&nbsp;is a complete solution provider for&nbsp;reseller hosting,&nbsp;dedicated servers&nbsp;and&nbsp;cloud servers. 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