RDP Client
I've got a Windows 2003 server. I've got a legacy application [1] that must be managed (start, run, shutdown) from the console.
The obvious solution - it's free - is to use Terminal services in admin mode, let the RDP client that comes with every windows desktop connect using the magic console [2] switch.
Except there is one little problem. Client A connects, starts doing his thing. Client B, hearing about a problem with the application, connects and knocks out Client A. No warning, it just happens.
Wham!
Imagine trying to concentrate on a chess game while sitting in a bumper car, with a lot of testosterone-laden teenagers driving around you. You're about to checkmate the other bloke and WHAM a kid with a sunburn and a bad hair cut slams into you. Your attention is shot to heck.
How do I keep this from happening? What we'd like to do is force an option that tells the server 'throw up a dialog before bumping' .. or something like that.
Yes, there are a butt-load of solutions (vmware, vnc) that will do that for us - but the preferred (cheap) method is RDP.
[1] I've got the legacy .. the legacy application blues ..
[2]
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