can someone help in providing cmdlets on enabling RDP and administrative rights on local machine
Hi Srikanth,
Please provide some additional information on what you are trying to accomplish:
- OS version?
- running remotely or local to the system you are trying to enable rdp for?
- are you looking to add user to local Administrator’s group?
In general there is not a specific cmdlet that will enable RDP or grant admin rights, but a short script should be able to accomplish these tasks. However, depending on your specific situation the script may need to be modified.
operating system : windows 7 ,64-bit.
1.need cmdlet or script to add domain users to local administrative group
2.need cmdlet or script to add domain users to remote desktop users group.
Try this:
$DomainName = 'whatever.com' ([ADSI]"WinNT://./'Administrators',group").Add("WinNT://$DomainName/'Domain Users'") ([ADSI]"WinNT://./'Remote Desktop Users',group").Add("WinNT://$DomainName/'Domain Users'")
To enable RDP on Windows 7 you pretty much have to perform 2 tasks:
- Enable RDP (via registry)
- Enable RDP firewall rule - for Windows 7 I believe you have to rely on good ole netsh, don’t think there is a Powershell equivalent (Windows 8 I believe has one)
If you are running locally you can accomplish this with two lines (needs to be run as admin):
Set-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server' -Name "fDenyTSConnections" -Value 0 netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group=”remote desktop” new enable=Yes
hi Jim,
i tried both the cmdlets but it didn’t work for me.
error :The following exception occurred while retrieving member “add”: "The group name could not be found.
kindly suggest.
many thanks.
Hi Srikanth,
Try breaking things up to see where things are failing:
$groupName = "Administrators" $computer = "localhost" $userName = "jsmith" $domain = "yourdomain.com" #bind to group and user $group = [ADSI]"WinNT://$computer/$groupName,group" $user = [ADSI]"WinNT://$domain/$userName,user" #Add user to group $group.Add($user.Path)
I just remembered I had a function I wrote awhile back to make it easier. I wanted to go back to it and clean it up a bit but never got around to it. It should work both remotely and locally if you have the permissions (running locally requires Run As Admin rights):