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copied!<p>We use many remote desktops in our development environment and there are many servers deployed in multiple environments. It is tedious to remember their IPs, usernames and passwords. I want to write a small utility with buttons on it. When clicked, I want to start those remote desktops, automatically fetching usernames and passwords from some list.</p> <p>I know there is a command line equivalent for MS Remote Desktop: <code>mstsc</code>. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11296819/run-mstsc-exe-with-specified-username-and-password">This</a> thread suggests to do this as follows:</p> <pre><code>cmdkey /generic:TERMSRV/"computername or IP" /user:"username" /pass:"password" mstsc /v:"computer name or IP" </code></pre> <p>I run first line and it says credential successfully added. Then when I run second line it simply runs Remote Desktop Connection for the specified IP and asks for username and password. I would like it to simply open the remotely connected desktop at specified IP by automatically applying the credential specified in <code>cmdkey</code>. </p> <ul> <li>What's wrong here? Is it possible using such Powershell script? </li> <li>Can I invoke this script through HTML page (since there are many other resources that I will be laying onto the webpage which will serve as a one spot links for we developers, so that we will not be wasting time and effort finding them each time we want them. Is it possible by <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767914(v=vs.85).aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">registering application to URI scheme</a> ?)</li> <li>Is there any other (standard) way?</li> </ul>

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