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This is just basics but something I came across recently ,   remotely anywhere  is a remote administration tool which our Enterprise uses. Most of the time User face some issues with installation of applications , so Remotely anywhere helps in assisting them using the remote desktop using a web interface Remotely anywhere also listens on port 22 the name of the service is "RemotelyAnywhere SSH Server". Sojust connect to a remote machine using putty and then you are droppped to a  cmd shell  and then start PowerShell from there. The best part is it doesn't prompt for the User confirmation :) The pre-requisite is that Remotely Anywhere be installed on the remote machine and listening on port 22. So open up a putty console and connect on port 22. After that you need to authenticate yourself, I am logging into a machine in Enterprise (running AD) so I used my domain credentials to log in and you do need to After that you are dropped to a command pr...

Now, Basically why to enable remote desktop on a ServerCore ? When you have already WinRM and PowerShell remoting already kicking. Well, I honestly can't say why to enable it...cause I have the ServerCore machine sitting up on my Hyper-V Server and I could "connect" to it as easily. But it's good to know that it could be done. With Server 2012 you could add a GUI or a Servercore...but there is something called Minimal Server Interface as well in Server 2012 (plus Server 2012 gives you ability to switch between all these installations too). So you might want to read up on this here . So a use scenario can be to add Minimal Server Interface on a remote host for the time being , Enable Remote Desktop  and perform Admin tasks which occur rarely. How to Enable Remote Desktop ? Well from what I could understand there are 2 registry entries which control this. 1. fDenyTSConnections under  'HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server'. This Re...