Gotta land on the other side on this one.

I spent close to 10 years as a DBA for a major insurance company and most of that time I did not have access to the production servers through RDP. I could only get to SQL Server itself and some of the file shares we used for data storage and backups. And I never really missed RDP.

Now, I didn't do installs or I would have needed it. But with that one caveat, it's pretty easy to work around it.

Sorry everyone.