Solved: Cannot remote desktop into 2nd Microsoft account on Windows 8
- MSTSC’ing from the remote computer simply fails with a non-descriptive error message.
- However, if you get as far as the remote computer login screen, you get a valuable hint: Your 2nd Microsoft account has not been added to the Remote Desktop Users Group (presumably this happens by default when you create your first Microsoft account).
- To fix this, log in as admin on your Windows 8 machine (either locally or remotely with an account which is in the Remote Desktop Users Group), windows key+f, “users”, click on “settings”, and use the direct shortcut to “remote desktop users group” to add the user in question (with the Microsoft account email) to the permitted users group.
- Adding what I believed was the local account equivalent of the 2nd Microsoft account via desktop / windows-ley x/ “computer management” / “users and groups” to the “remote desktop users group” did not work.
Categories: e-infrastructure, os
mstsc, security
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