Another XP SP3 casualty

There are a lot of stories floating around detailing the trail of destruction that Windows XP SP3 has been leaving in it’s wake. Off hand I know of a couple of friends who claim it forced them to rebuild their laptop, and first hand I spent a bit of time recently fixing my Uncle’s laptop after SP3 mangled the network connectivity via his data card.

Last week I found another, albeit minor casualty to XP SP3 – the /console switch of Remote Desktop Connections. I spent a good few minutes on a client’s site feeling pretty silly, trying multiple variations of “mstsc /console”, “mstsc –console”, and so on, until I googled it to find that it’s renamed to “mstsc /admin” in SP3.

Good to know, but why the change? Surely people for whom /console doesn’t make sense shouldn’t even be using the switch?

 Print | Posted on Saturday, March 07, 2009 9:10 PM |



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# re: Another XP SP3 casualty

This change in parameter brings the XP version of the RDP client in line with the Windows 2008 / Vista versions. Apparently you don't have a console anymore on Windows 2008 server, especially with the headless/minimal installations with no GUI.

Oh, and seriously you've only just upgraded to SP3 now? It came out MONTHS ago, we came across this change in RDP Client parameters last year...

3/16/2009 10:52 AM | sonic

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# re: Another XP SP3 casualty

Actually no, I haven't upgraded to XP SP3 now, not anywhere, not at all :)

But what I have done is helped clients, friends, and relatives get their machines up and running after SP3 made them stop working. I'm happy with Vista for now - which is something I never thought I'd hear myself say.

3/17/2009 8:53 AM | Ross Hawkins


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