If you need this service we can advise on alternate connection methods to achieve the same result by contacting with Windows Remote Desktop client If this does not help try using a different browser.Ĭurrently the below connection technique is discontinued. If you have an ad-blocker try disabling it, if this helps you can white-list .uk. The installed software includes 7-zip, Office 2016, Group Manager, Git, Atom, Knime, Matlab 2018a, Microsoft Teams, R, Tableau and Win SCP. $xfreerdp /v.uk /u: /gdi:sw +smart-sizing +clipboard +printerĪnd add your login password when prompted. (Please ensure that you change the instructions to have your university username in.) Once installed open a terminal and copy / paste the following. There is one small caveat, this method will only work on. Instructions for this can be found on the freeRDP webpage, Please note that the performance is not as good for this as using the web interface. This can be added to a Linux machine by a user with Sudo (administration) rights. While Rdesktop will not authenticate with the RDS.ACT terminal server due to an older authentication mechanism (at the time of writing) Xfreerdp will work. The full desktop awaits in all its glory! You will have the option to print locally and share your clipboard (which allows you to share copy and paste functionality.) If a full desktop is required then choose the Remote Desktop icon.

These include Office 2016, Outlook and others. If you have no sign in box please use Google Chrome, Firefox can be unreliable with Windows Terminal Services.Ī list of frequently used applications are available from this interface. Now .uk is only available from the campus network. It used to be available from off-campus, however this was discontinued for security reasons. The Windows desktop service is available to all staff and students. It is suitable for lightweight admin tasks but not for research computing and the main purpose of the Windows Desktop Service is to enable access to Windows applications from a Linux environment. It provides access to a range of applications, for the users who are not using Windows on their machines, and for convenience of users, in cases where installing the application or accessing it another way is impractical or impossible. uk is a Windows Terminal server, which uses Microsoft Remote Desktop to connect to a managed Windows desktop environment.

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