Windows 7 --> 10 Upgrade: Defender Blocking RDP

[Graham Carter]

In a nutshell am looking for a solution / workaround to a windows 10 update assistant tool issue.

After the MS tool updates a windows 7 pc to windows 10, windows defender by default is not set to allow RDP

 

The problem with the above, is that am trying to remotely upgrade 100+ and can RDP into them to kick off the update.

However once the machine is then upgraded, windows defender by default does not have RDP allowed and therefore have to physically attend the machine to manually allow RDP through Defender

 

Tried turning off defender however still unable to RDP until the tick boxes are checked in defender to allow RDP connections

Surely there has to be a workaround to this? IE a custom setting to have RDP allowed automatically after upgrade?

 

 

[vanished]

I would imagine this is something that's normally set on an organization-wide basis using group policy / active directory.  Changing it on every machine as you have noticed isn't a great experience.

[Windows7ge]

There's likely a better solution but if all else fails you could look into tools like rubberducky which make USB thumb drives behave like keyboards which automatically execute a script.

 

You could have it login and navigate to this menu and tick the boxes for you.

 

If CMD supports the ability to make firewall changes (I have not tried) you could have the USB just run a few CLI commands to enable these functions. All you'd have to do is go up to the computer and plug it in.

 

It's great for administrative purposes. Though your place of business may not like you using one because they can easily be used with malicious intent.