Follow these steps to
change the default Remote Desktop server port:
- Open up Registry Editor by
clicking on the Start Button, type in regedit and then
hit Enter.
- In Registry Editor, navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal
Server\WinStations\RDP-Tcp.
- Right click on the
PortNumber dword and select Modify.
- Change the base to Decimal and
enter a new port between 1025 and 65535 that is not already in use.
- Click OK and reboot.
Keep in mind that the next time when you want
to connect to your system with RDP you will need to provide the port
number. You can do that from the Remote Desktop client by appending a
colon after the host name or ip address followed by the port number. For
example, if I have a computer with host name of myserver with RDP
running on port 3355 I would use myserver:3355 in the remote desktop
client hostname field.
