Nothing to exciting here, but its the 3rd or 4th time in recent history I’ve had to go looking for this, so I figured I would write it down finally.
There are times when a domain attached PC has RDP disabled for some reason. The following snippet, which I adapted from http://oreilly.com/windows/archive/server-hacks-remote-desktop.html makes it a little quicker. Run this from a cmd prompt as a user with admin rights on the remote host.
{% highlight bat %} set node=remote_pc_name sc \%node% start RemoteRegistry reg add «\%node%\HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server» /v fDenyTSConnections /d 0 /f {% endhighlight %}