Four Complete Collaboration Technologies In One Appliance

The title of this post says it all. Four complete collaboration technologies in one appliance. That is what RHUB’s product provides.  Everyday internet tasks such as  web conferencing, web seminars, guaranteed attendance, remote support for PC and Mac and remote access to your computer are made possible with their remote support appliance product.

The best part of it all? No IT maintenance needed! No downloaded need as well! Any personnel required to join a meeting is not required to download the software to establish the web conferencing session. As an added bonus, all products are integrated with the RHUB free audio conference service with landline quality. Or, you have the option to configure the appliance to integrate with your own audio conference bridge or service.

RHUB has the evidence to prove that their product is worth it. It has received numerous awards and recognitions to further boost their claim that their remote support appliance products are the best.

Change Port Of Remote Desktop

By default, Remote Desktop’s port is set to 3389. If you wish to change it to some other port for whatever reason you have, you can do so with the easiest way changing the registry value using a Windows program called RegEdit which modifies registry name=pair values.

Follow these steps.

• click START > RUN > type regedit and the regedit program opens up.
• navigate to each key starting from
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
  • System
  • CurrentControlSet
  • Control
  • TerminalServer
  • WinStations
  • RDP-Tcp
  • PortNumber
• double click the PortNumber key, and choose the decimal radio button to reveal the value set by default as 3389.
• change to whatever port number you wish

When connecting remotely using the Remote Desktop Client with the changed port, you can just add a colon + the port number after the domain or IP address.

e.g. 192.168.8.XXX:1234

The client connets to the IP address 192.168.8.XXX with port number 1234.

Using Remote Desktop Web Connection

Connecting to Windows desktops remotely was made possible with Remote Desktop Connection. But if we do not have an installation of the program, there is another way to do it by connecting via the web. This is made possible with Remote Desktop Web Connection. You only need to download this and install it in order to run the Remote Desktop Connection inside a browser. The installer will extract the necessary files (by default in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\tsweb) and libraries including a default.htm file that contains basically all the code that you need to connect remotely. Make sure you have IIS (Internet Information Server) running though since you will be connecting remotely using a browser.

Using Google Chrome and Firefox are pretty useless since there is the issue of ActiveX. So if you are a total newbie or you do not care wihch browser you would use to run the default.htm, use Internet Explorer right away. Go to http://localhost/tsweb/default.htm to load the page. By default, the page contains a form that will let you input the server and a connect button to connect to the server. If you need to automate connection without submitting the form you use the following HTML code to load the activeX object.

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<OBJECT language="vbscript" ID="MsRdpClient" CLASSID="CLSID:9059f30f-4eb1-4bd2-9fdc-36f43a218f4a" CODEBASE="msrdp.cab#version=5,2,xxxx,0"></OBJECT>

Then use the following VBScript code

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<script language="vbscript">
MsRdpClient.FullScreen = TRUE
resWidth  = screen.width
resHeight = screen.height
 
MsRdpClient.DesktopWidth = resWidth
MsRdpClient.DesktopHeight = resHeight
 
MsRdpClient.Width = resWidth
MsRdpClient.Height = resHeight
MsRdpClient.server = "ip"
 
MsRdpClient.username = "username"
MsRdpClient.AdvancedSettings.ClearTextPassword = "password"
 
MsRdpClient.AdvancedSettings2.RDPPort = "3389"
MsRdpClient.Connect

The code above opens the Remote Desktop Web Connection in Full Screen, it will occupy every space inside the browser. You can also notice that there is an option for setting the port. By default, the port is set at 3389 but desktops have the option to change the port for remote connections so just change the value if you are listening to a server in which the port is not set to its default.