Microsoft Remote Desktop. Use the Microsoft Remote Desktop app to connect to a remote PC or virtual apps and desktops made available by your admin. The app helps you be productive no matter where you are. Getting Started Configure your PC for remote access first. Download the Remote Desktop assistant to your PC and let it do the work for you. I enabled the Remote Desktop Access on my Windows 10 Pro machine while logged in as Microsoft Account (MSA) user. The machine was setup to use MSA from start, there is no specially created local user except the 'administrator' that gets created during initial setup. Microsoft Has Released the HTML5-Based RDP Web Client. In one of my previous blogs about Inspire, I mentioned the new RDP web client, but didn’t go into a lot of detail on how to take advantage of this new client within the MyCloudIT environment. Microsoft is now referring to this as the Remote Desktop web client, so I will use the same.
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TodayMicrosoft released a set of fixes for Remote Desktop Services that include twocritical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities, CVE-2019-1181 and CVE-2019-1182. Likethe previously-fixed ‘BlueKeep’ vulnerability (CVE-2019-0708), these two vulnerabilities are also ‘wormable’, meaning that anyfuture malware that exploits these could propagate from vulnerable computer tovulnerable computer without user interaction.
The affected versions of Windows are Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, and all supported versions of Windows 10, including server versions.
Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008 are not affected, nor isthe Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) itself affected.
These vulnerabilitieswere discovered by Microsoft during hardening of Remote Desktop Services aspart of our continual focus on strengthening the security of our products. Atthis time, we have no evidence that these vulnerabilities were known to anythird party.
It is important that affected systems are patched as quickly as possible because of the elevated risks associated with wormable vulnerabilities like these, and downloads for these can be found in the Microsoft Security Update Guide. Customers who have automatic updates enabled are automatically protected by these fixes. By default, Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro users will be updated automatically.
Thereis partial mitigation on affected systems that have Network LevelAuthentication (NLA) enabled. The affected systems are mitigated against‘wormable’ malware or advanced malware threats that could exploit thevulnerability, as NLA requires authentication before the vulnerability can betriggered. However, affected systems are still vulnerable to Remote CodeExecution (RCE) exploitation if the attacker has valid credentials that can beused to successfully authenticate.
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SimonPope, Director of Incident Response, Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)