RDC Console Option Changed in Windows XP SP3
I nominate this change as one of the strangest I’ve seen.
In Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection before Windows XP SP3, the /console switch would connect you to the console session of the remote computer. In SP3, the switch was changed to /admin.
Huh?
A blog post from the Enterprise Platforms Windows Server Performance Team explains.
This was annoying to figure out. I had created a new VM using VMware Fusion 2.0 beta for SP3 and couldn’t connect to my work computer. I ended up downgrading back to VMware Fusion 1.1 before I found out about the above change. Grrrr.
Don’t forget that you can add the /admin switch after the computer name in the Computer text box in RDC (on both Windows and Mac). Here’s a screenshot:
