Shadow Remote Desktop session Server 2012
Remote Desktop Services can be very useful tool for IT Pro. Day by day more companies swap the Local Workstations in Thin Clients and users connected in Remote Desktop Servers in a farm or standalone base on the size of the company. Sometimes can be difficult as IT Pro to support the users with Remote Desktop Connection. When a user call you must ask him for the password , find the username , most of the times the password will be wrong . After 3,4 times finally connect in Remote Desktop session of the user to check his error. Windows Server 2012 R2 has a feature that can shadow the user session. However this removed from Windows Server 2012. Today i would like to show you ho can use this feature and be your favorite tool in Remote Desktop Servers. First of all Session Shadow works only in Windows Server 2012 R2 with Remote Desktop Session Host Role installed. Try with GUISo after has install Remote Desktop Session Host in Windows Server 2012 R2 and has create the Collection then follow the steps to use Session Shadow.
Try with PowershellOf course you have the option to use Powershell for Session Shadow. How can start?
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If you want to shadow the RDS Server console (session 0) in an RDS Server session, and you do not want to be prompted for permission, set the local Group Policy on the server that is running Remote Desktop Services. To shadow other sessions, in the RDP-TCP Properties dialog box, on the Remote Control tab, click to clear the Require user's permission checkbox. This does not affect the console session. To remote control the console with no prompt for approval:
Once this has been set, you can go to the user's session in the ControlUp Real-Console, right-click and select Remote Desktop Services\Shadow Session.
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I thought I read that feature was coming back with Windows Server 2012 but I can't do that. Can someone please let me know if I read wrong or if there is an additional step to allow this behavior? I've enabled remote desktop and multiple logons for a user but can't find how to remote control another remote desktop user.
This article describes how to shadow a Terminal Server session without a prompt for approval. Applies to: Windows Server 2012 R2 If you would like to shadow the Terminal Server console (session 0) in a Terminal Server session, and you don't want to be prompted for permission, set the local Group Policy on the server that is running Terminal Services. To shadow other sessions, on the RDP-TCP Properties dialog box, on the Remote Control tab, click to clear the require users permission check box. It doesn't affect the console session. To remote control the console with no prompt for approval:
Now, if you establish a Remote Desktop session, you can connect to the console and remote control it by going to a command prompt and using the following command: Shadow 0You shouldn't be prompted on the console for permission. |