Quake3World

Anyone using the Active Directory remote control feature within a corporate environment as their primary means of shadowing user sessions?

I've previously used Funk's Proxy and Dameware, as well as Citrix Shadow in the few situations where it's appropriate, and I've got good experience with Terminal Service/RDP, but the 'Remote Control' tab in active directory seems to have barely any documentation for it, anywhere, so I don't know the specifics.

Will it let you connect to a PC pre-logon or only once a user is logged in? Can it connect without solicitation (i.e. a request-accept to the user) and does it display any notification to the user if not? Is it a viable and free alternative to buying licenses for Proxy/Dameware/VNC type applications?

TIA

On the tab it says 'Require Users Permission' with Yes/No checkboxes. And it appears on the users properties in AD.

So you can't use it to shadow a user logged in
on an XP Pro machine?

Thanks Torm

It's not really much of a "shadowing" tool, per se.. more like a simpler precursor to remote assistance. Works great in a helpdesk scenario where many users connect to a TS server to run an application..