Remote Assistance
Hello All-
First off let me explain our situation; we are a mid size business with 1000+ users in Windows Server 2003 AD, and about 700 workstations/desktops, and about 80 servers. We are currently using VNC for remote administration for our workstations. I hate this, due to the fact that you have to ask the user to move their mouse over the icon in the systray, relay the ip address back; not only that the security on this is terrible.
I am looking to do away with VNC all together, and move towards MS built in Remote Assistance. However, I need away to tell what machine a particular user is at. I have seen vbscripts before that would map a users display name to the machine description in AD at logon. I have also been in contact with the "Scripting Guy", he has suggested that I create a new attribute in the AD schema, however I am not real comfortable with doing this. If anyone has any info. on this, please let me know.
I would like to find a possible way for users to simply double click on an icon, and it sends a Remote Assistanceinvitation to an admin of their choice, and bada bing you are in.
Please help out guys.
Thanks
November 20th, 2008 8:54pm
Hello,
Firstly, I am sorry to say that I am not good at scripts.
This can be achieved by scripts, such as a batch file or the VBScripts.
In this script, you may need to achieve at least two things:
1. Use the msra command utility to start Remote Assistance, as follows:
Msra /saveasfile <path>\<filename>.msrcIncident (this can save the Remote Assistance file so that you can send it to the administrator)
Msra /email <password> (this can use the default e-mail client to send this Remote Assistance file)
2. Send this Remote Assistance to the administrator.
For simplicity, you can try saving the Remote Assistance file to a network share location so that the administrator can open it directly. For example, you can try creating a batch file including the following command:
Msra /saveasfile \\<ComputerName>\<SharedFolder>\<FileName>.msrcIncident <password> (you must type the password in this situation)
Or, you can try sending it as an email, as I mentioned in step 1.
You may also try other methods by using commands.
If you have additional questions on scripts, I would highly suggest that you post in our MSDN forum. People there have better knowledge on scripts and they may help you efficiently achieve what you need.
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn
Additionally, if you have questions relating to Windows XP or Windows Vista, I would highly suggest that you post in our Windows XP or Windows Vista:
Windows Vista forum:
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=204&SiteID=17
Windows XP:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups.mspx
Thank you for your cooperation.
Best regards,Chang Yin
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November 24th, 2008 2:58pm
Thank you for your input.
November 24th, 2008 4:32pm
Hi,Do you know Ultravnc SingleClick ?I think is better solution, because you create an menu and user only double click and administrator receive a answer and voila.http://www.uvnc.com/addons/index.htmlvalter dantasvalter@llevon.com.brwww.llevon.com.br
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January 29th, 2010 3:00am


