How to P2V Windows 2000 server using SCVMM 2008

DavidMcCormick — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:16:57 GMT

With the economic down turn and the green agenda Virtualisation has become a hot topic with my customer. These days its all about getting the best value for money as possible with your IT budget, so when my customer had a number of servers out...(read more)

Windows 2000 Terminal Server : Modify RDP-tcp permissions via script

gmcshera — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:30:36 GMT

I was recently asked how to modify the rdp permissions on a large number of Windows 2000 SP4 servers running in Remote Admin mode. Well, normally Id make use of WMI and make the changes using Win32_TSPermissionsSetting class. Unfortunatly this class is not available in Windows 2000.

To get around this issue in Windows 2000 try the following:

Create a domain group and manually assign the permissions to the RDP-Tcp connection on a single server
Export the following reg key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\WinStations\RDP-Tcp\Security (REG_BINARY)
You can now import this reg key on any number of servers across your enterprise. Since the change was not made using the API you may have to reboot the server

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How to P2V Windows 2000 server using SCVMM 2008

Windows 2000 Terminal Server : Modify RDP-tcp permissions via script