Comments on: FREE: Remotely Enable Remote Desktop

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:45:01 +0000

Ronin, no if the PC is WOL-ready it can be shut down but as long as it is connected to the A/C outlet the NIC will still be powered up and “listening”. You can verify this by shutting down the PC and checking the activity lamps on the NIC.

By: Ronin Vladiamhe

Ronin Vladiamhe — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:58:38 +0000

Is not WOL geared more toward those computer that are sleep, rather than off?

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:29:33 +0000

Ronin, what you need is software that supports Wake on LAN. Many desktop management solutions support it, but there are also specialized WOL tools. The Wikipedia has more.

By: Ronin Vladiamhe

Ronin Vladiamhe — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:24:49 +0000

Is there an app that would allow network admins to boot a computer, that has been turned off, over a LAN. I know there is a change that has to be done in the computer’s BIOS, but the app would still be necessary to take ‘advantage’ of the BIOS change.

By: Christopher Owens

Christopher Owens — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:57:21 +0000

I used to do this with PSEXEC back before I learned the joys of Group Policy (surprised I found the note so easily):
psexec \\machinename reg add “hklm\system\currentcontrolset\control\terminal server” /f /v fDenyTSConnections /t REG_DWORD /d 0

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:21:02 +0000

This is also possible to do with WMI. Here’s a PowerShell example:

$computer = gwmi win32_terminalservicesetting -computer “mycomputer”
$computer.setAllowTSConnections(1)

1 will turn it on, 0 will turn it off.