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Customising RDP Dialogs

Firstly, let me start by saying that not everyone is going to want to ‘tweak’ with the bowels of RDP, but if you are so inclined then check out this article.

I stumbled upon it when wondering how I could get people to stop simply disconnecting sessions and logging off properly.

The article helps you to change the disconnect dialog from looking like this:

To looking more like this:

As I said at the top of this post, not everyone should be poking around with this kind of thing in production, but it is very very handy for persistent offenders.

This tool obviously has many uses beyond RDP dialog customisation, so use your imagination.

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4 Responses to “Customising RDP Dialogs”

  1. Glenn Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 12:54 pm

    Looks like the sort of tool I’ve been looking for! ;-)

    Maybe I’m missing something, but I couldn’t find any links to the tool in your post…

  2. D Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 1:16 pm

    Ok, I give: Where’s the link to the article which describes how to do this?

  3. Paul Shannon Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 1:31 pm

    My bad the article has been updated, but here’s the link again anyway:

    http://www.msterminalservices.org/articles/Customizing-Microsoft-RDP-Client-Part1.html

    Sorry guys

  4. Glenn Says:
    June 24th, 2008 at 11:51 am

    Great! Thanks for that ;-)

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