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Remote Desktop Console
Remote Console Desktop is a nifty feature that's been built into Windows that allows you to remotely access your computer and access its desktop as is. What you see on your desktop at home, you'll see on your remote connection location, which creates a good way to work with the things on your home computer as if you were there, which is many times crucial.
You can start remote desktop console by issuing the /console switch along with the mstsc command. This will force the remote desktop service to work with the current active user's desktop, rather than creating a new session from scratch with another user. This is tremendously helpful if you have programs running on your system and you want to access any of the results that these programs attained.
Remote desktop through console will give you every possibility at hand as if you were in front of the computer, but you have to remember that this process will be marginally slower. The /console option can also be used to do a remote desktop console view, in order to see if the computer is being used at your home or office. It may be helpful trying to catch anyone who is trying to access your private data without your consent.
The remote desktop login as console will proceed as if you were the user trying to login on your machine, as such, your ordinary login will be requested in order to access the desktop. After that there are no restrictions to what you can do, so it's again safer if you choose a strong password to protect your system. It takes little to give your access to someone by mistake and this can have grieve consequences, especially if you have the remote access services online.
Run remote desktop console has several advantages, namely, emulating a VPN. While not a VPN or a proxy at all, the connection between your computer and the server machine is encrypted, meaning that you can access from an insecure point and your connection back home, or to the office, will be encrypted. This is a very good way to make sure you access certain sites without the need to be afraid of someone intercepting your private data.
Ultimately however, you must remember than the RCD is a bandwidth intensive application and as such the efficiency over the Internet will most likely be below expected. Increasing service speed may help, but there's simply an inherent issue in transferring this kind of data over the Internet in a functional way. At LAN wise, the service will run flawlessly.