Now that you have got telnet installed, you can use it to test open ports ports and connect to remote machines.
To check if your installation was successful, just go into a command prompt and type “telnet” and you should come to the interactive telnet prompt, like this: You can use Server Manager to install the telnet client, but it is a much longer process than doing it via the command line, here is a short video of the correct options to select. Install Telnet Client on Windows Server 2016 using Server Manager The command line is the quickest way of installing the telnet client, very simply just type: dism /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:TelnetClient Windows Server 2012, 2016: Open Server Manager > Add roles and features > click Next until reaching the Features step > tick Telnet. To do it, open the Server Manager Dashboard (servermanager.exe), go to Add roles and features and check SMTP Server when selecting the features to install.
#Install telnet server 2012 how to#
Install Telnet Client on Windows Server 2019, 2016 or 2012 using the command line How to Install SMTP Service on Windows Server 2016 / 2012 R2 SMTP service is one of the built-in features of Windows Server that can be installed through Server Manager. If you do not have telnet installed you will see this message from the command line: Telnet is not recognized as an internal or external command. Edited by Tim Cerling MVP Monday, Octo4:36 PM.
At that point you should be able to log in. It is however, easy to enable telnet on Windows Server 2016 or 2012. Go into the Properties of the Telnet Server service and change it to Automatic startup. I don’t understand why, because it is a useful tool and uses little space.
Telnet is not installed on Windows Server by default.