So you have a Win2k3 server and it's locked in a room somewhere. You had logged into locally and started a process. You're now far away and need to check that process... Call a buddy and ask them to check it? But wait, as a good IT Security citizen you locked the console... So give your buddy your password? Bad... So does that mean you have to travel all the way back just to check that process?

NOPE Windows Server 2003's Terminal Server has a great new feature that allows a remote administrator to TS into the local console.

The trick is that you need to start the Remote Desktop Connection app with the "/console" command line parameter.

Once you do that and connect to the machine you'll be connected to the local console! Very cool...

To connect to the console session of a server

Mstsc Creates connections to terminal servers or other remote computers...