How to enable Remote Desktop on the Backup Exec 3600 appliances

[Xavier Mustin]

For those of you that are looking for a little more you can enable RDP through PowerShell. Keep in mind that enabling Remote Desktop is not supported by Symantec and not considered a best practice. Do so at your own risk.

1. Open Powershell on your PC.
2. At the Powershell prompt type,

   set-item wsman:localhostClientTrustedHosts -value “*”

3. Next type,

   Enter-PSSession -ComputerName <IP address> -Configuration Appliance -Credential <username>

   substituting <IP address> for the IP address of your appliance and the <username> for the username of the appliance (which is probably “administrator”).
4. You will get a login prompt. Enter the appliance credentials.
5. Type

   Enable-RemoteDesktop

6. Now try initiating a Remote Desktop connection to your appliance.

This setting is not permanent. So when you reboot your appliance you will likely need to do this again.