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PA Desktop on Windows 10 doing an RDP to Windows Server 2019

I've managed to get all the way to logging in via RDP to my server. After the login, I don't quite understand how to send commands inside the RDP session (if possible with PAD).

I guess the focus remains on the Windows 10 desktop, as I try to run a command and send some keys, and they end up running on the Windows 10 machine.

What might I be missing to focus inside the RDP session, if possible?

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marco_shaw 10 on at

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So I guess the RDP session is treated as an image, which I sort of remembered. I thought with OCR I could focus on the RDP session itself?

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Henrik_M 2,021 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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If you click with the mouse on the session and afterwards send keys, it should work just as if you had done it yourself.

But if I were you, I would automate something that is not RDP.

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josephb61 65 on at

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After launching your RDP session, I always follow with a wait for window with the focus option checked (title of the RDP Window). You do not want to send keys to rdp session, uniti RDP session window has appeared and has gained the focus (ensured by wait for window with focus option)

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