While I was playing around with Amazon EC2 I thought to highlight the following:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\
System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TerminalServer
0×0 Allow multiple sessions per user 0×1
[...] Using a cmd window to type “shadow 0” to shadow to the console window. to exit the shadow on this session just press “Ctrl + * ” (the * seems have to use the * key at the number pad, which is not there if using most of notebook keyboard. wondering if there are settings to change the key map.)
See also: Scaled Remote Desktop
Update: You cannot enable Aero between Windows Server 2008 (remote) and Windows 7 (client). I wish I could have









