How do I start remote desktop from PowerShell?

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Josiah picture Josiah · Jun 30, 2014 · Viewed 82.8k times · Source

How do I start an RDP session from powershell? I'm looking to avoid a custom script because I work at an MSP and end up remoting into machines across various domains in a day and so maintaining a selection of scripts across each is not trivial (unless you have a solution to that for me).

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Raf picture Raf · Jun 30, 2014

Same as in command line, you can launch the RDP client as so:

mstsc /v:10.10.10.10:3389

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