While we were down in Paris on Imagine Cup, we encountered a big problem. Our server was running live in Oslo (Norway), and the internet connection was too slow to actually load the pages we needed. But it did however; work well in remote desktop as it takes lower bandwidth than a whole website with all the images. Imagine Cup had a firewall blocking just about everything about standard web ports (80,433), so we had to change the default port for Remote Desktop.
In order to change the Remote Desktops default listening port, you actually need to do a little registry hack.
Open regedit, and navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TerminalServer\WinStations\RDP-Tcp\PortNumber
On the Edit menu, click Modify, and select Decimal (unless you prefer the hex values)
Now, restart “Terminal Services”, and it should be up and running on the new port.
We switched the port to 443, and everything worked like a charm. A special thanks to Rune Zakariassen for lending us the 3G connection to fix it all.
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