RDP and network drives


Remotely enable RDP

Very useful Powershell script for enabling RDP connection on a remote Windows PC or server.
Updating the firewall on remote machine was the key in this case.
How did we do that? Using Cisco Meraki Systems Manager, one of the features is a remote command line (even on Windows).

netsh firewall set service remoteadmin enable
netsh firewall set service remotedesktop enable

Network drive security

Not sure why but suddenly unable to open files on a network drive without seeing this security warning.
Open File – Security Warning - We can’t verify who created this file. Are you sure you want to open this file?”

This link has the fix that worked for me.
Simply adding the network drive to list of allowed sites in Intranet Zone fixed my problem.
Question remains is why this had changed ?

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