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Now in this video I'm going to demonstrate a Remote Desktop Connection. Now what you will hear out in the real world is that this is called RDP - somebody's going to say I'm going to RDP into the server - they're going to open a Remote Desktop Connection link on their machine and they're going to log into that machine and they will work on it as if they're sitting at the keyboard. Now in this example I'm about to log into a machine or do an RDP Connection to a Windows 7 machine that is in another room, OK, it's in a different office than the one I'm sitting in. So, let's do it. So how can I do this? Well, couple of ways to open this. I can click and I can type mstsc and that will open the Remote Desktop Connection, if that's too hard to remember I can just type remote, how about that? That's a little better, OK, or if I want to do it the hard way I can click on Start, go to All Programs, go find Accessories and you'll see Remote Desktop Connection. It all took me to the same place. Now I'll show you how to solve that problem and never have it again. First I need to type the IP address or the name or whatever of the remote machine and there it is, OK? Now, if you click on this Options button notice what I did, I set some options where it said that you know it'll ask me for credentials when I connect OK? And I am on VTCMARK-PC, that's my machine, that's the one that I'm going to connect to, OK, and I'm going to connect as Mark. Now, let's go through these. First of all, Display - I can determine how the display's going to appear. Now I'll come back and play with this, right now I'm going to put it on 640 by 480 and this will be the size of the window that opens on my Desktop OK? Local Resources, which one of these do you want to see and utilize? Do you want to hear the audio from the remote machine to playback on this computer; it'll pass it through. Any programs that I want to start as soon as the connection starts; the experience, notice, depending on my network I can have Remote Desktop do certain things. Notice if I'm a low speed broadband it won't let me do all the really cool Desktop functions. If I am on a LAN or if I'm on a high-speed broadband, OK, I can do some more things, but if I'm on a LAN I can get the full arrow effects and blah, blah, blah. So, anyway. Server Authentication - I can tell it what to do when I'm trying to attempt to connect to the remote computer and I can warn me if it fails, on and on and on, OK? So there are a lot of things here. I don't want to go through all of these. Now there is one thing I want you to see. If I click Connect here notice it's going to ask me for a login name and once I get it, it'll show me the Desktop and I'll do that. So I'll type, there's my password and this is just telling me the identity of the remote computer cannot be verified. OK, there's a security certificate, I just installed it, don't worry about this, we'll just go past it for now. It's connecting and there is that Remote Desktop. Pretty cool stuff, right? Take it a minute to set up. Now notice that I've been in there before and I left a sticky note on the Desktop, OK, and I can close that now and this is just as if I'm sitting at that keyboard working on that machine OK? I can open up Calculator and do some things, alright? Now, to get off of that, if I click notice I can choose to Disconnect and so that will disconnect me and I'm no longer connected. Now, I want to do something a little bit different this time. Oh, wait, that's Remote Assistance. Hold on. There's my Remote Desktop Connection OK? Now, if you remember from previous videos you can pin these things to it, but notice after I've connected one time I can just click this and it will take me right to the same place OK? Well, I want to do it a little bit different, OK, remember under the Options it had that little Save? OK, I'm going to do Save As. OK, let me go back and make sure that I have all my display stuff and all my local resources, my experience, yes, OK? So go back to General. Now I'm going to save this as, I'm going to save it as the MTLRDP and I'll put it on the Desktop and I will save it and notice this little shortcut shows up here. All I have to do now is double-click that shortcut and it will connect me. It remembers the IP address and all of that and I can go in and I can say Yes, don't worry about that. There's my Desktop OK? Now notice what's really cool about this, that Desktop is in this window. I can minimize this, work on my machine and then I can bring this back up and continue to work on it, OK? Now I want to show you one more thing, OK, I will Disconnect from that and then I will go back into Remote Desktop Connection and I'm going to change that Option on the Display, OK, to 1024 by 768 and connect again. Whoop. Slow down a little bit. Hit Yes. Now if you'll notice here it's a lot larger, OK, and now I can go full screen and notice this takes up my whole screen and this little guy right up here is telling me, hey, you know, you can still connect to the other one. Now I get a true experience here, OK? It looks just like I'm on that other machine, it looks like I'm working on my own machine OK? And nah, I don't want to customize my settings. OK, OK. Don't do all that. It's the first time I've opened this, can you tell? Now, I can open Solitaire and this is the ultimate use of Remote Desktop, right? I can run Solitaire - oop, it's going to tell me it's on slow game performance - but anyway, I can run games, I can do all kinds of stuff, alright? So, let me close this and, OK? It's loading them in, alright. Enough of this, OK? Notice I can come back up here and Restore Down and it's back in the window. The only problem is, is I have to scroll around. Now on a large monitor this is not a problem, but anyway, that's Remote Desktop. It's pretty much that simple and easy and just try this out and play with it. Very, very powerful. Again, most administrators can't live without this tool.