Manually grant RDP access to an Active Directory user (2024)

FAQs

Manually grant RDP access to an Active Directory user? ›

Open Remote Desktop Services Configuration. In the Connections folder, right-click RDP-Tcp. Select Properties. On the Permissions tab, select Add, and then add the wanted users and groups.

Open Remote Desktop Services Configuration. In the Connections folder, right-click RDP-Tcp. Select Properties. On the Permissions tab, select Add, and then add the wanted users and groups.

This article describes the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) that's used for communication between the Terminal Server and the Terminal Server Client. RDP is encapsulated and encrypted within TCP.

Please add the Domain Users group (or other domain group) to the local Remote Desktop Users group on the member server. After adding the group, test to see if a non-admin domain user is able to connect to the member server using Remote Desktop.

Find the rule Remote Desktop – User Mode (TCP-In), then right click on it, and select Properties. On the Scope tab, press the Add button under the Remote IP addresses section. *Note: Be sure to add other IP addresses such as your developer or systems administrator as needed.

Click on System. Click on Remote Settings. Under Remote Desktop, select "Allow remote connections to this computer." Enable the "Allow users to connect remotely using Remote Desktop Services" policy.

To join a computer to a domain

Navigate to System and Security, and then click System. Under Computer name, domain, and workgroup settings, click Change settings. Under the Computer Name tab, click Change. Under Member of, click Domain, type the name of the domain that you wish this computer to join, and then click OK.

The easiest way to determine who has access to a particular Windows machine is to go into computer management (compmgmt. msc) and look in Local Users and Groups. Check the Administrators group and the Remote Desktop Users group to see who belongs to these.

How to give server access to user? ›

To have multiple RDP connections, we should disable the single-user remote desktop mode and change the remote connection limit. In this situation, you can have 2 RDP sessions simultaneously for free, but if you wish to have more, you should install the RDS role through the server.

To combat this, Microsoft released an addition to RDP called Restricted Admin mode. This mode allows users that possess local administrative privileges on the Remote Desktop host to complete the authentication process without supplying the password in cleartext.