Recently I ran into an issue were I was using RDP (Remote Desktop) to remotely administer a Windows 2008 SBS server trying to use the /console switch to get connected to an admin user session that had already been started from the local KVM (Keyboard-Video-Mouse) of the server (also referred to as session 0) before I had left to come home.
I received the following error message "An unknown parameter was specified in computer name field" after a little research I found that Microsoft had changed RDP on Windows 2008 and deprecated the /console switch.
For detailed info on this please review http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947723
The synopsis is you can use the /admin switch to do something similar but that according to Microsoft it has improved application compatibility enough so that legacy apps that used to need to run as console no longer need to. I'm not totally convinced but time will tell.
Here are some additional links for further reading:
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/datacenter/?p=434
http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2008/01/04/mstsc-exe-no-more-console-switch-in-rdc-6-1.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/nickmac/archive/2007/11/28/mstsc-console-switch-in-windows-server-2008-and-windows-vista-sp1.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archive/2007/04/27/application-compatibility-session-0-isolation.aspx
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