90% of my day is spent remoting into my server farm to make changes, monitor, and etc… Normally when I need the task manager I do the normal Start>Run>taskmgr command to get me there but I never realized I could have a CTRL+ALT+DELETE like command. Normally when you remote desktop and hit ctrl+alt+delete it invokes YOUR computers options, not the computer you are remoting into. The solution for this (and I am sure I am years behind on this) is CTRL+ALT+END!
It is funny how knowledgable I think I am when it comes to Microsoft products but when I learn something like this I feel dumb! What cool tricks have you found out by accident or totally made you feel like a newb? I would love to hear them.
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Thank for help
Yeah but has a problem if you have many nested rdp sessions. ctrl-alt-end invokes the command on the *first/parent* rdp session. If you then rdp within rdp a few more levels you can’t invoke it on any other of the others. Be good if it worked on the last rdp session, then it would work at every level as you close each child session. Always thought this should be ctrl-alt-home but that might make sense. :)
for a nested rdp session do a shift+ctrl+alt+end