Although the Remote Management is enabled by default starting with Windows Server 2012, the RDP access isn’t. To enable RDP with Powershell, you have two steps to perform:
- Enable the RDP Access
- Enable the inbound firewall rules
Here’s the code:
<pre class="lang:ps decode:true" title="Enable Remote Desktop with Powershell"># 1. Enable Remote Desktop
(Get-WmiObject Win32_TerminalServiceSetting -Namespace root\cimv2\TerminalServices).SetAllowTsConnections(1,1)
(Get-WmiObject -Class "Win32_TSGeneralSetting" -Namespace root\cimv2\TerminalServices -Filter "TerminalName='RDP-tcp'").SetUserAuthenticationRequired(0)
# 2. Enable the firewall rule
Enable-NetFirewallRule -DisplayGroup "Remote Desktop"
The second line allows you to specify if you want to use NLA or not.