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

When enabled, the dashboard tries to lock direct RDP on the bench so only your PC can connect. If your environment doesn't allow remote netsh -r (timeouts in logs), disable this and use the soft lock only.

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Bench Agent (recommended)

Install a tiny agent on each bench that locally manages the "Remote Desktop Users" group based on the dashboard lock — no remote netsh -r needed.

1. In %LOCALAPPDATA%\RemoteDesktopDashboard\admin.env, set RDD_BENCH_AGENT_TOKEN=<any-long-random-string> and restart the dashboard.
2. Type your admin PIN above (the value of RDD_ADMIN_PIN in admin.env), then click Show install command.
3. Open PowerShell as Administrator on each bench and paste the one-liner.
   The one-liner uses iwr | iex to fetch /agent/install.ps1 from THIS dashboard server on the fly — you don't host or copy install.ps1 yourself.
4. Click Refresh agents below — each bench shows up as "online" within ~10 seconds.

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

Machines

Name Hostname IP address

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