Server Upgrade

April 2022

This guide covers how to get you connected to the new server at FVC. We will use an existing entry for the old server, duplicate & customize the new entry, then test the connection.

To get us to a starting point, log into your computer and open the Microsoft Remote Desktop application. The icon looks like this:

• With Microsoft Remote Desktop open you will now see either connection entries in icon view or list view. Select the one you usually connect with. Name will probably be OfficeMate or fvcvm2. Right-click (or control+left-click) the entry and select Duplicate:

• You'll have two identical entries. Right-click (or control+left-click) one of them - doesn't matter which one - and choose Edit.

• Change the PC name from fvcvm2.ad.foleyvisioncenter.com to fvcvm4.ad.foleyvisioncenter.com

• Change the Friendly name to fvcvm4 and click Save. If another name makes more sense to you, this Friendly name field can be modified, but please make some reference to fvcvm4 or "new server" or something like that. Or rename the old server to say "old." Should look very similar/identical to this:

• Best case, you're done! Try double clicking the new entry.
  
  
  Not working? The problem is almost certainly one of two issues.

1. Computer can't find the new server. Solution linked here.
2. Auth (user/pass) doesn't work. Auth solution linked here.