Remote Desktop Dashboard

Server settings

Service account used to read sessions on each bench (stored encrypted on this server).

Domain Username Password Test bench Admin PIN (value of RDD_ADMIN_PIN in admin.env)

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RDP firewall guard (legacy)

Legacy hard-lock using remote netsh -r from the dashboard server. Once you install the bench agent below, this is superseded automatically — the dashboard skips it for any bench whose agent is online and the agent enforces access locally instead. Leave it disabled if remote netsh -r times out in your environment.

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Bench Agent (recommended)

A tiny PowerShell-only agent on each bench locally manages the "Remote Desktop Users" group based on the dashboard lock. No Python install needed on the benches.

1. Set RDD_BENCH_AGENT_TOKEN=<long-random-string> in %LOCALAPPDATA%\RemoteDesktopDashboard\admin.env and restart the dashboard.
2. Configure Server settings above with a service account that is a local administrator on every bench.
3. Type your admin PIN above, then click Push install next to a bench below — the dashboard uses the service account to SMB-copy the agent and register a SYSTEM scheduled task. (One-click. The bench needs SMB/445 reachable from this server.)
4. Or, if a bench is unreachable for SMB, click Show install command and paste it into an elevated PowerShell on that bench yourself.

On the bench, the one-liner just downloads these two files from the dashboard:

Machines

Name Hostname IP address

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