System Center Configuration Manager - Remoting to Computers
Find the user and checking the user's primary devices is one way, assuming you've got the device affinity configured.

  • Edited by Narcoticoo Wednesday, August 19, 2015 3:22 AM
August 19th, 2015 3:22am

Hello,

I have a question. When inside of the Configuration manager and looking at a collection I don't know what the users computer is because it doesn't show a name associated with the computer. Is there a way to display the computer name and the user's name on the same screen so I can remote to it?

Thanks.

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August 19th, 2015 3:28pm

Why do you need the username to remote control it?
August 19th, 2015 4:16pm

If I understand you correctly, you want to remote to a user's machine but you don't know the machine name, only the name of the user on that machine.

You can try this WMI query which will return you the machines where the user was the last to log on to:

select NetbiosName from SMS_R_system where LastLogonUserName = 'TheUserName'

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August 19th, 2015 5:42pm

While inside the console, you can do a show members of the collection, but i have not seen an option to also show the last logged on user, or user affinity information.
August 19th, 2015 7:40pm

Why do you need the username to remote c
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August 19th, 2015 10:14pm

If I understand you correctly, you want to remote to a user's machine but you don't know the machine name, only the name of the user on that machine.

You can try this WMI query which will return you the machines where the user was the last to log on to:

select NetbiosName from SMS_R_system where LastLogonUserName = 'TheUserName'


That is correct, but they don't want to do a query. They want to just see a screen with [Computer Name] [User]. Then, remote to it.
August 19th, 2015 10:15pm

While inside the console, you can do a show members of the collection, but i have not seen an option to also show the last logged on user, or user affinity information.

How do you remote to a users computer if you know the user but not the computer name?
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August 19th, 2015 10:16pm

Find the user and checking the user's primary devices is one way, assuming you've got the device affinity configured.

August 19th, 2015 11:09pm

Find the user and checking the user's primary devices is one way.

I believe that's the only way. I really like that way. Just, my boss doesn't.

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August 19th, 2015 11:09pm

Of course you could build your own tool with Powershell for this....
August 19th, 2015 11:17pm

This can also be achieved by using right click tools.

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August 20th, 2015 1:38am

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