If you’re like me, you’ve probably tried to connect to a remote Windows system and found that the "Allow Remote Connections" setting is disabled. Well I found this great little article, Ben O’Sullivan’s Blog, that will allow you to enable it remotely.
- Download and install PSExec. This is an offical tool from Microsoft to emulate a remote command prompt.
- Enter the following command to enable remote desktop in cmd
psexec \\machinename reg add "hklm\system\currentcontrolset\control\terminal server" /f /v fDenyTSConnections /t REG_DWORD /d 0 - Enter these commands enable RDP traffic through the windows firewall
psexec \\remotecomputername netsh firewall set service remoteadmin enablepsexec \\remotecomputername netsh firewall set service remotedesktop enable