Enable Rdp Client Windows Xp' title='Enable Rdp Client Windows Xp' />How to Enable Multiple Remote Desktop Sessions in Windows. Microsoft offers the Remote Desktop Protocol RDP in Windows Server to allow remote desktop connections for multiple users, and while most versions of Windows include a RDP client, only the Professional, Ultimate and Server editions of Microsoft Windows offer the RDP server to accept incoming connections. Unlike the server editions of Windows, Microsoft limits the client editions of Windows to one concurrent user, whether remote or local, preventing multiple remote desktop connections. So if a remote desktop connection is made, no one physically at the PC can use it or even see the desktop without first kicking off the remote user. However, well discuss how you can remove this limitation so that multiple users can log in to a remote desktop simultaneously. Thus a remote user or remote users can log in to their account while also allowing a local user to log in to their account when physically at the PC. This single user login limitation in the client editions of Windows can be bypassed by applying an unofficial modification called the Universal Termsrv. Patch, which is provided by a developer who goes by the handle Deep. XW Download the Universal Termsrv. US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/4/html/Desktop_Deployment_Guide/figs/remote-desktop/remote-desktop-tsclient-win-rdp.png' alt='Enable Rdp Client Windows Xp' title='Enable Rdp Client Windows Xp' />Patch file download link updated 22. ZIP file. Additional information on the Universal Termsrv. Blog-rdp-ss2.png' alt='Enable Rdp Client Windows Xp' title='Enable Rdp Client Windows Xp' />Deep. XWs blog site, which lists 3. OS support for the patch on Windows XP SP2 SP3, Windows Vista SP1 SP2, and Windows 7 operating systems. Find the patch program you should run based upon your processor. For 3. 2 bit x. Universal. Termsrv. Patch x. Universal. Termsrv. Patch x. 64. exe. NOTE While the patch program will automatically create a backup of the Termsrv. Youll find the file at WindowsSystem. Registry changes it makes, you can save the. Registry to remove the changes shown in the. For Windows XP youll want to save the xp. Windows Vista and Windows 7, its vista. Right click on the patch program and select to Run as administrator. On the program, click the Patch button and it will replace the Termsrv. Registry modification. It will also save a backup so you can later undo the modification if desired. Next, restart your computer for the modification to take effect. On Windows, you can use the Microsoft Terminal Services Connector mstsc. Windows. You can start it by bringing up the Run. Remote Desktop Plus RDP is not a clone or copy of Remote Desktop. Its just a shell for the normal Remote Desktop client mstsc. Now you just need to enable incoming remote desktop connections. Heres how to do so with Windows Vista or Windows 7 Right click on Computer from the Start Menu and select Properties. Click Remote settings on the left. Under Remote Desktop, select one of the three options. Administrators on the computer will automatically be added to the list of remote users, but if you need to add standard users, click Select Users. Windows should automatically configure Windows Firewall to allow the RDP traffic to pass through, but if you have a third party firewall installed on the PC, you may have to manually configure the firewall to allow the traffic. As with normal remote desktop connections, remember that to remotely connect over the Internet you must configure your router to forward incoming RDP connections to the desired PC. And unless you perform other RDP settings modifications to change the RDP ports in the Windows Registry, youre basically limited to configuring one PC on the network for incoming connections via the Internet. To this point, weve largely covered the issues associated with enabling the remote desktop for multiple users on earlier versions of Windows like Windows 7 and Windows Vista. On the next page, well detail how the remote desktop multiple users issue can be solved on Windows 8, Windows 1. Windows Server 2. Free Xbox Live Trial 48 Hour Books here. Windows Server 2. Next Page How to Enable Concurrent Remote Desktop Sessions in Windows 8, Windows 1. Windows Server 2. Windows Server 2. Eric Geier is the founder of No. Wires. Security, a cloud based Wi Fi security service, and On Spot Techs, an on site computer services company. He is also a freelance tech writer become a Twitter follower or visit his Facebook Fan Page to keep up with his writings. Follow Server. Watch on Twitterandon Facebook. Client Hyper V Survival Guide Tech. Net Articles United States EnglishBecause Client Hyper V in Windows 8 Pro is the same technology as server Hyper V IT Pros and developers do not need to learn any new tools or commands. You can move virtual machines VMs from Client Hyper V to server Hyper V. For example. you can build a test lab infrastructure hosted entirely on your laptop or desktop machine and export the VMs you create and test from your laptop into production. As another example, assume you have an application that you must test on the Windows 8, Windows. XP operating systems. You can create three VMs with these OS versions easily and complete your tests except for scaleperformance tests on the Client Hyper V machine instead of in production, or in a dedicated testing lab. Client Hyper V let you use both Hyper V virtualization and wireless network adapters and sleep states on your desktop machine. For example, if you are running Client Hyper V on a laptop and close the lid, the VMs that are running will be put into a saved state. Virtual machine management and other tools created for server Hyper V, such as VMM P2. V or sysinternals Diskto. VHD tools will also work in Client Hyper V. Diskto. VHD is available for free at. Dto. Vhd. Hyper V virtual switch extensions and Windows Power. Shell scripts for managing VMs that you develop and test on client Hyper V can be moved to server Hyper V. You can also export a virtual machine from your production environment, open it on your desktop with Client Hyper V, perform your required troubleshooting, and then export it back into the production environment. Using VM Networking you can create a multi machine. NOTE Bluetooth NICs do not appear as ethernet NICs and are not usable by Client Hyper V VMs. Microsoft has made no announcements concerning the upgrade of host machines from Client Hyper V in Windows 8 Consumer Preview to the released versions, however, you can export all the virtual machines and their settings and then import them again on the released. Client Hyper V. Windows Power. Shell scripts for managing virtual machines that you create using Client Hyper V are fully compatible in with Windows Server 8 Hyper V. For example, assuming you had the. VMs already available on your machine, network share. USB storage, the following example Windows Power. Shell command would start them all for you on your Client Hyper V machine. Dir. xml import vm start vm. Remote FX capability to virtualize GPUs software GPU in RDP 8 Live VM migration Hyper V Replica SR IOV networking Synthetic fibre channel. For more information on the new Hyper V features in Windows Server 8 see. Whats New in Microsoft Hyper V Server 8 Beta. Differences between Hyper V Client, Hyper V Server 8 and Windows Server 8 with Hyper V see  Differences. Hyper V Client, Hyper V Server 8 and Windows Server 8.