

Here is a quick workaround for those of you who wish not to update the entire OS in order to connect to a picky RDP server. Be it due to your organization’s OS updating process or the fact you are in need of a quick RDP access.

However, in some cases this is not practical. Microsoft recommends that you update your Windows client to the latest version and updates. Indeed, the latest Windows RDP server-side no longer considers older (pre-May) versions of RDP clients. This error has been quite common since the latest release of May Windows Updates. Here’s a version matrix between Windows 10 clients and Windows Server 2016, but the error can exist also in different version combinations:
