Microsoft Remote Desktop -- Windows Access to a Windows Computer

Your or a member of the CCI Commons or CCI Technical staff should help you with initial set-up, but if you wish to try yourself, here are the instructions they will use to do this.
Microsoft Remote Desktop -- Set up Win PC for Remote Desktop access
Find your new IP address on the Windows computer in your office that you want to access from off-campus (or remotely). 

  1. Click the Windows key and the "R" key simultaneously.
          Or click Start, and search for "run" (without quotes). Then click "Run."
  2. In the "Run" window, type in: cmd.exe
  3. In the "cmd.exe" window, after ">", type in: ipconfig
  4. Write down the IPv4 IP address.
          Example: 129.25.203.2 or something like that - BUT YOURS WILL BE DIFFERENT NUMBERS. :-)
          Your IP address will be different for each user.

Go to your laptop or home computer that you use off-campus to access your work computer

  1. Open up the Microsoft Remote Desktop Application.
          Install if you do not have it from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/microsoft-remote-desktop/9wzdncrfj3ps
          Do not use the older "mstsc" in Run dialog app.
  2. Edit the "Desktop" square that you double-click to login remotely to your work computer.
          On Windows, click the 3 dots in the lower right of the "Desktop"
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          On a Mac, click the pencil icon.
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  3. Now change the PC Name to the new IP address you wrote down from above.
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  4. Click "Save."
That should do it.