Enable RDP to act like VNC?

[Rawns]

As I'm in Somerset I thought I'd chip in I'm assuming this is for the Primaries/First schools (as us middle and secondary schools would create the policy for you).

 

Have you considered using Powershell scripting? It is capable of manipulating GPOs easily, without directly needing to manipulate registry settings.

 

The way I'd be doing it would be to create a GPO in a domain, export it/back it up, and then via PowerShell import it into all the disparate domains.

 

• Windows Administration: Simplify Group Policy Administration with Windows PowerShell
  
• Group Policy: Automating Group Policy Management with Windows PowerShell
  

 

Yep, thats right - just Primary's, Firsts & PRU's. We are starting to use CentraStage at the moment for remote support. It comes with RDP and VNC built in but VNC is temperamental at best so I'm looking down the RDP route.

 

Powdarrmonkey, you were right. Seems to work on servers but no luck with workstations. Back to the drawing board.

[localzuk]

Yep, thats right - just Primary's, Firsts & PRU's. We are starting to use CentraStage at the moment for remote support. It comes with RDP and VNC built in but VNC is temperamental at best so I'm looking down the RDP route.

 

Powdarrmonkey, you were right. Seems to work on servers but no luck with workstations. Back to the drawing board.

 

As I say, PowerShell is your friend here. Although, this would require you to have PowerShell installed on all the servers...

[PiqueABoo]

I've previously automated (and still do coz it ain't broke) mass GPO editing with a bit of JScript wrapped around a free utility called GPScript.exe which comes as part of a collection: batch tools.zip[1]. It takes a text file as input and applies the changes therein, to a registry.pol file. YMMV but I've given that util a bit of exercise and it has always worked for me.

 

My script is about a) finding the right GPO to point GPScript at (I'm dealing with servers where certain GPO names are consistent), b) Updates the GPO version in the right places afterwards.

 

 

You can download Microsoft spreadsheets that are lists of standard Windows ADM[X] policy settings, with their descriptions, exact registry keys etc. Very quick and easy to search for things, but I once got bitten by a couple of mistakes in one so verify before production use.

 

[1] There are some other useful utils in there.

 

PS: The only way I've made this thread work is to RDP (or something) to domain X server as an Admin , then within that session Remote Assist to domain X workstation. Unsolicited RA from Admins needs to be configured in a GPO for the workstations first though.

Edited October 20, 2009 by PiqueABoo

[glensc]

Yep, thats right - just Primary's, Firsts & PRU's. We are starting to use CentraStage at the moment for remote support. It comes with RDP and VNC built in but VNC is temperamental at best so I'm looking down the RDP route.

 

Powdarrmonkey, you were right. Seems to work on servers but no luck with workstations. Back to the drawing board.

 

 

WHen your RDPing to a user if your taking control of the session you'll be connecting as them, I thought RDP on XP was only set up for members of the admin group.

 

I guess you could test that by loging onto one as an admin then seeing if you can RDP to it from antoter machine.

[powdarrmonkey]

WHen your RDPing to a user if your taking control of the session you'll be connecting as them, I thought RDP on XP was only set up for members of the admin group.

 

I guess you could test that by loging onto one as an admin then seeing if you can RDP to it from antoter machine.

 

That's not the problem in question - the OP wants to watch a session in progress, like Remote Assistance does.

[Cools]

WHen your RDPing to a user if your taking control of the session you'll be connecting as them, I thought RDP on XP was only set up for members of the admin group.

 

I guess you could test that by loging onto one as an admin then seeing if you can RDP to it from antoter machine.

 

tried that it don't work...