Powershell Remote Session, Can't seem to set the screen resolution?

Question

I have been trying to set the screen resolution of my remote machine via a Powershell remote session for a while now. I can get the resolution from the Get-DisplayResolution cmdlet and I get the following back.

PS C:\> Enter-PSSession -Session $rs
[vm.company.com]: PS C:\Users\username\Documents> cd \
[vm.company.com]: PS C:\> Get-DisplayResolution
1024x768

[vm.company.com]: PS C:\> Set-DisplayResolution -Width 1440 -Height 900 -Force
setres will now attempt to apply the following display settings:   

  Width:          1440                       
  Height:         900

The settings passed in could not be applied to the graphics device.

[vm.company.com]: PS C:\> Set-DisplayResolution -Width 1024 -Height 768 -Force
setres will now attempt to apply the following display settings:

  Width:          1024
  Height:         768

The settings passed in could not be applied to the graphics device.

[vm.company.com]: PS C:\>

This is very frustrating because I can't even seem to be able to change the display resolution to what it currently is set to because I keep getting the error

The settings passed in could not be applied to the graphics device .

I've tried this on my machine locally and it appears to work just fine. Here is the version of Powershell that displays on the remote machine.

[vm.company.com]: PS C:\> $PSVersionTable

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      3.0
WSManStackVersion              3.0
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
CLRVersion                     4.0.30319.34209
BuildVersion                   6.2.9200.17065
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.2


[vm.company.com]: PS C:\>

Does anyone know a way around this problem? Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

As far as I know, you can only change the resolution of a remote host at connection time.

Depending on the tool you use, look for remote desktop size settings, for example on the command line :

mstsc /w:1440 /h:900 /v:remote_host