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- Windows server 2016 remote desktop services cal update#
Windows server 2016 remote desktop services cal update#
After clicking the refresh button as highlighted below, the status should update to Enabled. Back in Server Manager, Remote Desktop may still show as Disabled until you refresh the view.Select the OK button to close out of the System Properties window and enable remote desktop. At this point you can optionally click the “Select Users…” button to define specific users or groups that have permission to connect via remote desktop.Once you select “Allow remote connections to this computer” 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.Tip: You can also open the System Properties window shown above by entering “SystemPropertiesRemote” into a Command Prompt or PowerShell terminal. From the System Properties window, select “Allow remote connections to this Computer” as shown below.Click on the Disabled text which will open the System Properties window in the Remote tab.

You should see that Remote Desktop is listed as Disabled as shown below.

You may need to wait a little for it to detect the current state of your system.
Windows server 2016 remote desktop services cal how to#
Here we cover how to turn on and enable remote desktop protocol (RDP). By default in Windows Server 2016 remote desktop is disabled.
