Microsoft apparently has no easy way to set a remote windows machine to enable remote desktop access.
While you can use MMC to do a lot of management of a remote machine, allowing remote dekstop is (I guess) not one of them.
Intelliadmin has the cleverly named utility "Remote Desktop Enabler" to do this job.
And it is free. I have not tested it to enable on Vista but it works for enabling RDP on remote XP boxes. thanks Intelliadmin.
Showing posts with label XP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label XP. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Vista - Offer Remote Assistance Shortcut
Since XP, windows has been able to offer and request remote assistance.
Remote assistance allows you to share a desktop, similar to gotomypc, or VNC, to help solve issues, or just see the same thing.
If you are supporting a workstation that on the same network as you, it is an easy free option for remote desktop assistance.
I've setup our domain policy so that all machines are pre-set with remote assistance enabled from any IP in our subnet. This is still secure, because the user must accept any remote assistance connection requests. Without this domain setting, you would have to right click on "my computer" select properties, and then enable remote assistance from the "remote" tab.
The thing about offering or requesting remote assistance that is a pain is that to do so you need to go under the start menu, help, then find offer or request remote assistance. Which sucks if you need to help folks (offer assistance) all the time.
The good news is that under vista, you can create a shortcut direct to the offer assistance tool.
just create a shortcut and put the target as:
%windir%\explorer.exe “hcp://CN=Microsoft%20Corporation,L=Redmond,S=Washington,C=US/Remote%20Assistance/Escalation/Unsolicited/Unsolicitedrcui.htm
Then then next time you need to remote a machine, you can then just launch that shortcut, drop in your target's machine name in the client, and away you go.
Remote assistance allows you to share a desktop, similar to gotomypc, or VNC, to help solve issues, or just see the same thing.
If you are supporting a workstation that on the same network as you, it is an easy free option for remote desktop assistance.
I've setup our domain policy so that all machines are pre-set with remote assistance enabled from any IP in our subnet. This is still secure, because the user must accept any remote assistance connection requests. Without this domain setting, you would have to right click on "my computer" select properties, and then enable remote assistance from the "remote" tab.
The thing about offering or requesting remote assistance that is a pain is that to do so you need to go under the start menu, help, then find offer or request remote assistance. Which sucks if you need to help folks (offer assistance) all the time.
The good news is that under vista, you can create a shortcut direct to the offer assistance tool.
just create a shortcut and put the target as:
%windir%\explorer.exe “hcp://CN=Microsoft%20Corporation,L=Redmond,S=Washington,C=US/Remote%20Assistance/Escalation/Unsolicited/Unsolicitedrcui.htm
Then then next time you need to remote a machine, you can then just launch that shortcut, drop in your target's machine name in the client, and away you go.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Reboot XP Via RDP
XP pro and Vista flavors other than home allow for remote access via RDP. In many cases this a good option for working remotely. A remote session to a XP or Vista workstation does have a few slight differences compared to operating the computer directly. One big one is that you don't have the same options for shuting down on the start menu.
A frequent question I get is, how can I reboot a machine via RDP?
This is actually pretty simple. A Ctrl + Alt + End functions the same in a remote session as a Ctrl + Alt + Delete does on a local session. For an XP Domain member this brings up the "windows security" window, and for a XP stand alone you will get the task manager. From there you can choose shutdown, and then reboot.
A frequent question I get is, how can I reboot a machine via RDP?
This is actually pretty simple. A Ctrl + Alt + End functions the same in a remote session as a Ctrl + Alt + Delete does on a local session. For an XP Domain member this brings up the "windows security" window, and for a XP stand alone you will get the task manager. From there you can choose shutdown, and then reboot.
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