How to change the listening port for Windows RDP

How do you manage multiple remote desktop connections from different users? If you dont have a dedicated remote gateway and dont want to spend any more than what you have, this solution may be the best one for your enterprise. You can have each user remotely connect to their own desktop by using port forwarding on your router specific to each user's RDP port settings. Here are steps to change the RDP listening port.

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1. Start Registry Editor.
2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TerminalServer\WinStations\RDP-Tcp\PortNumber

3. On the Edit menu, click Modify, and then click Decimal.
4. Type the new port number, and then click OK.
5. Quit Registry Editor.