160 6 Managing, Administering, and Maintaining a Hyper-V Host Server FIGURE Enabling Remote Desktop on a host system. NOTE In step 5, you could choose to Allow Connections from Computers Running Any Version Of Remote Desktop (Less Secure). This option allows the use of the Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) earlier than version , which is the RDC software that came by default with Windows 2000, Windows 2003, and Windows XP Because you are access. ing a host server in your network environment, however, and you can likely control what RDC client software you, as the administrator, can choose to use, it is recommended to. | 160 6 Managing Administering and Maintaining a Hyper-V Host Server FIGURE Enabling Remote Desktop on a host system. NOTE In step 5 you could choose to Allow Connections from Computers Running Any Version Of Remote Desktop Less Secure . This option allows the use of the Remote Desktop Connection RDC earlier than version which is the RDC software that came by default with Windows 2000 Windows 2003 and Windows XP Because you are accessing a host server in your network environment however and you can likely control what RDC client software you as the administrator can choose to use it is recommended to use the latest RDC client version or later . The latest RDC client provides a significantly higher level of security for remote connection. Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 come with the latest RDC client and older versions can be easily upgraded to the latest release by going to www. downloads. When there search for Remote Desktop Connection to download and install the most current version of the client. With the latest RDC client installed choose to use the more secure network-level authentication method of connecting to the host server. To access the host server from a remote system you need to run the RDC client software. This software is the same application used to remotely access a Windows Terminal Services system. The location of the RDC software varies from system to system based on the operating system that you are running. In general you can launch the RDC as follows 1. Click Start All Programs Accessories and choose Remote Desktop Connection. Download at Managing Windows Server 2008 Remotely 161 FIGURE Using the RDC application. 2. Enter the name of the host server you want to remotely access similar to what is shown in Figure . 3. Click Connect to access the host server. 4. When prompted for your credentials enter a valid logon name and password that you would normally use to log on to the remote .
