Black desktop on domain admin login
I had just installed server 2019 and could login locally with an account. But after connecting to our local domain, I would get a black desktop when I logged in with the admin domain account. This would happen on both on the server and via remote desktop connection (RDC). After a lot of stuffing around with google search details only relating to black screen on RDC, I eventual found a link to this page: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2274333-server-2019-black-screen-on-rdp-with-domain-admin-account#entry-9086513 There were a lot of suggestions, which were good, but the one that worked for me was a solution from the user mimo1313 : Hello All, I had the same problem with server 2019. Change following setting in local GPO: Computer Configuration->Windows Settings->Security Settings->Local Policies->Security Options Enable "User Account Control: Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in Administrator account" which is set to "Not Defined" After that do a