Win10 & RDP / VM Desktop reset password
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Thanks! I learn something new every day! :) Now, since you are discussing rdp to a vm desktop, I've a small question. How would this be a security risk to the computer/network at home? The reason I ask is this: A few months back a customer misunderstood what my company was advertising as a 'cloud solution' for a legacy lob desktop app. (it's actually just the option to post data to one of our web servers for reporting/dissemination, etc.) She was expecting a solution where we host everything...app, data, etc. Remember, this is a legacy desktop app. When we discovered the misunderstanding (after they had already paid) I suggested that we just create a limited user account on an existing azure vm we have, install the software, and let them rdp in, problem solved. During the process of transferring the customer's files/data, I even asked if they currently use remote desktop for current cloud-based system. The answer was 'yes'. I went about setting up the account on the server, setting up and configuring the application/files. It works great so I sent the customer the credentials and a setup guide. The response back was a screenshot of the generic rdc not connecting error message. :confused: I said she would need to get her local IT staff to troubleshoot it. Within an hour, we had the answer: Company IT forbids Remote Desktop Connections to computers outside of their network. :sigh: They had been the victim of ransomware a few months back and weren't going to make an exception. So the question is, can an outgoing rdp connection be dangerous for the client? The only way I can think of is through local drives or the clipboard. I'm asking specifically about the MS Remote Desktop Connection here. Thanks for any insight! :)
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kmoorevs wrote:
So the question is, can an outgoing rdp connection be dangerous for the client? The only way I can think of is through local drives or the clipboard. I'm asking specifically about the MS Remote Desktop Connection here. Thanks for any insight!
We had the issue with RDP in a Windows Server, that the clipboard was shared through all active connected users. The only restriction was, that you had to try to paste things of the same format of the copied ones (by other people). I mean, if I copied a text, you could paste it in a document on your side. If you copied a picture I could paste it on paint or a document, but if you copied a file, then I would not be able to paste it until I was in windows explorer. But AFAIK the clipboard can be deactivated through the settings of the RDP (I can't copy + paste through it in my current job)
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Nelek wrote:
f you can't get there, then they have deactivated it on purpose with some idiotic domain policy.
Yes, I said it wrong (don't have rights) but the reality is as you said they've
Nelek wrote:
deactivated it on purpose with some idiotic domain policy.
idiotic is the key word here. :laugh:
raddevus wrote:
idiotic is the key word here.
Are we not speaking about IT? :rolleyes: :rolleyes: ;P :laugh: :laugh:
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Well, it's obvious to you and me, but maybe not so obvious to someone who thinks differently...
#SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Our (work) icon is some generic thing and isn't even a shadow head icon so it isn't obvious and the term "user tile" is terribly generic too. And it is a terrible UI on that Start menu thing. And over all just terrible interface. Really terrible. It's esoteric information that if you know, you know. If you don't, you don't.
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I connect remotely to work via RDP and a win10 VM desktop. I'm supposed to reset my password. To do so I believe I have to send a Ctrl-Alt-Delete via on-screen keyboard. It has worked in the past. Now I get this cryptic informational warning / error... https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fy98E.png[^] To use the commands available when you press Ctrl+Alt+Del, click your user tile and choose an option. What!?! NOTE: This is a complaint, not a question. :laugh: I have no idea what a user tile is and I've been using windows of all versions since 1991. :rolleyes: EDIT Apparently a lot of people have no idea what the user tile is: User tile, Windows 10. - Microsoft Community[^] :| :|
Hmm, I always thought that pressing Ctrl+Alt+End on your physical keyboard is the designed way to sent Ctrl+Alt+Del to remote matchine via RDP
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I connect remotely to work via RDP and a win10 VM desktop. I'm supposed to reset my password. To do so I believe I have to send a Ctrl-Alt-Delete via on-screen keyboard. It has worked in the past. Now I get this cryptic informational warning / error... https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fy98E.png[^] To use the commands available when you press Ctrl+Alt+Del, click your user tile and choose an option. What!?! NOTE: This is a complaint, not a question. :laugh: I have no idea what a user tile is and I've been using windows of all versions since 1991. :rolleyes: EDIT Apparently a lot of people have no idea what the user tile is: User tile, Windows 10. - Microsoft Community[^] :| :|
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I connect remotely to work via RDP and a win10 VM desktop. I'm supposed to reset my password. To do so I believe I have to send a Ctrl-Alt-Delete via on-screen keyboard. It has worked in the past. Now I get this cryptic informational warning / error... https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fy98E.png[^] To use the commands available when you press Ctrl+Alt+Del, click your user tile and choose an option. What!?! NOTE: This is a complaint, not a question. :laugh: I have no idea what a user tile is and I've been using windows of all versions since 1991. :rolleyes: EDIT Apparently a lot of people have no idea what the user tile is: User tile, Windows 10. - Microsoft Community[^] :| :|
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Hmm, I always thought that pressing Ctrl+Alt+End on your physical keyboard is the designed way to sent Ctrl+Alt+Del to remote matchine via RDP
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. T.Jefferson
Oleg A.Lukin wrote:
pressing Ctrl+Alt+End on your physical keyboard
Yeah, for some reason it wasn't working. I'm remoting from Linux to a Windows box via Remmina (RDP for Ubuntu) and it seems that I can actually send a Ctrl+Alt+Del from that program anyways. I had to reset the RDP session and then it started working again. thanks
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I connect remotely to work via RDP and a win10 VM desktop. I'm supposed to reset my password. To do so I believe I have to send a Ctrl-Alt-Delete via on-screen keyboard. It has worked in the past. Now I get this cryptic informational warning / error... https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fy98E.png[^] To use the commands available when you press Ctrl+Alt+Del, click your user tile and choose an option. What!?! NOTE: This is a complaint, not a question. :laugh: I have no idea what a user tile is and I've been using windows of all versions since 1991. :rolleyes: EDIT Apparently a lot of people have no idea what the user tile is: User tile, Windows 10. - Microsoft Community[^] :| :|
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The user tile is found by clicking on the 'Windows' button in the taskbar. This will show the "Start Menu". On the extreme left is a vertical list of icons, the first of which is the "user tile". Click on that and the change password option will show.
#SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
I use "Classic Shell" so never see the Win10 start menu. However intrigued by this thread I fired it up (Shift+click start for Classic Shell users) and found the "user tile". There are various options there but NOT to change password. There's a "change account settings" option but that just opens a Control panel screen that again doesn't provide access to a means to change password. Conversely, using Ctrl-Alt-Del brings up a menu that includes "Change a password" - that does exactly what I'd expect.
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I use "Classic Shell" so never see the Win10 start menu. However intrigued by this thread I fired it up (Shift+click start for Classic Shell users) and found the "user tile". There are various options there but NOT to change password. There's a "change account settings" option but that just opens a Control panel screen that again doesn't provide access to a means to change password. Conversely, using Ctrl-Alt-Del brings up a menu that includes "Change a password" - that does exactly what I'd expect.
Yes, you are correct. I was more just informing how to find / use the user tile. It does seem like a reasonable place to put the change password option though ...
#SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I connect remotely to work via RDP and a win10 VM desktop. I'm supposed to reset my password. To do so I believe I have to send a Ctrl-Alt-Delete via on-screen keyboard. It has worked in the past. Now I get this cryptic informational warning / error... https://i.stack.imgur.com/Fy98E.png[^] To use the commands available when you press Ctrl+Alt+Del, click your user tile and choose an option. What!?! NOTE: This is a complaint, not a question. :laugh: I have no idea what a user tile is and I've been using windows of all versions since 1991. :rolleyes: EDIT Apparently a lot of people have no idea what the user tile is: User tile, Windows 10. - Microsoft Community[^] :| :|
Classic solution is press ctr+alt on the keyboard, then del on the on-screen keyboard on the remote machine. But at the rate they break things in W10 ...
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Classic solution is press ctr+alt on the keyboard, then del on the on-screen keyboard on the remote machine. But at the rate they break things in W10 ...
