How to change listen port for Windows 2008 RDP

To hopefully save someone some time:

  1. Change value of “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\WinStations\RDP-Tcp” to be the port number you want. (Type Decimal)
  2. In computer management, add a firewall rule to Incoming to allow connections from your new port. Disable the old RDP firewall rule.
  3. In services management, restart the Terminal Services service.
  4. Done :-)

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