In the Remote Desktop client, you can specify to "Start the following program on connection". If this program is specified, the program is launched immediately upon successful connection (i.e. no desktop is presented). This feature worked successfully for XP and 2003 without any Terminal Services features installed.
As far as I can see, this setting is ignored when accessing a Vista system and will only work in Server 2008 if you have the Terminal Services role installed.
As I am not intending to install a License Server (the allowed default of two sessions are sufficient for my purposes), I would rather not install the Terminal Services role solely to access this feature. In fact, I wish to use the "Remote Desktop for Administration" licensing mode and I don't believe this is available if the Terminal Services role is installed.
Is there any solution other than installing the Terminal Services role?
As far as I can see, this setting is ignored when accessing a Vista system and will only work in Server 2008 if you have the Terminal Services role installed.
As I am not intending to install a License Server (the allowed default of two sessions are sufficient for my purposes), I would rather not install the Terminal Services role solely to access this feature. In fact, I wish to use the "Remote Desktop for Administration" licensing mode and I don't believe this is available if the Terminal Services role is installed.
Is there any solution other than installing the Terminal Services role?
