it looks like i am ok with using the VMWare ESXi console. however i do want to be able to RDP in the virtual server. I will contact Microsoft and see if they can help out since this happened right after I did the MS Updates. i did go to the link you provided and had already tried the steps and still having the problem...
thanks for your help.
once i get it working i will post back here with the solution so that if anyone else has this problem it would help them out.