{"id":1210,"date":"2012-12-24T13:03:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T13:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2013-01-20T10:55:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T10:55:18","slug":"windows-server-rdp-wont-let-me-save-credentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=1210","title":{"rendered":"Windows Server Remote Desktop won&#8217;t let me save credentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/logindoesnotwork.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/logindoesnotwork-300x246.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a>One of the little niggles that you can get with Windows Server (2008 SP2 in my case) is a remote desktop connection will not let you use saved credentials to login remotely with the following error message.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your credentials did not work<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> The server&#8217;s authentication policy does not allow connection requests using saved credentials. Please enter new credentials.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The fix to this can be found in local or group group policy settings by going to one of the two places<\/p>\n<p><strong>Server 2008<\/strong> (and previous)<br \/>\n<strong>Computer Configuration<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Administrative Templates<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Windows Components<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Terminal Services<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Terminal Server<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Security<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Server 2008 R2<\/strong> (and onwards)<br \/>\n<strong>Computer Configuration<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Administrative Templates<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Windows Components<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Remote Desktop Services\u00a0<\/strong>&gt;\u00a0<strong>Remote Desktop Session Host<\/strong>\u00a0&gt; <strong>Security<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Then set &#8216;<strong>Always prompt for password upon connection<\/strong>&#8216; to disabled. This will then allow you into your server using cached credentials.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the little niggles that you can get with Windows Server (2008 SP2 in my case) is a remote desktop connection will not let you use saved credentials to login remotely with the following error message. Your credentials did not work The server&#8217;s authentication policy does not allow connection requests using saved credentials. Please enter new credentials. The fix&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=1210\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[97],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers","category-software","tag-windows-server"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}