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Windows Server 2016 Cookbook

You're reading from   Windows Server 2016 Cookbook Sauté your way through more than 100 hands-on recipes designed to prepare any server administrator to work with Windows Server 2016

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785883835
Length 494 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jordan Krause Jordan Krause
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Learning the Interface FREE CHAPTER 2. Core Infrastructure Tasks 3. Security and Networking 4. Working with Certificates 5. Internet Information Services 6. Remote Access 7. Remote Desktop Services 8. Monitoring and Backup 9. Group Policy 10. File Services and Data Control 11. Nano Server and Server Core 12. Working with Hyper-V

Shadowing another session in RDS


Let's say you receive a phone call from a remote user in your company; they are currently sitting in a hotel and are having trouble figuring out how to open an application. This application isn't installed on their local computer, they are an RDS user, and they connect into a virtual session on an RDSH server in your network whenever they need to access this app. You think about asking for their password, as that way you could just log into the RDSH as them and take care of the problem. But alas, asking for a password is a serious breach of company security policy. Instead, perhaps you can use some kind of online meeting software to share the screen of their laptop and try to walk them through fixing the problem. But that would mean walking them through the installation of that meeting software and hoping you could explain over the phone how to use it.

Looking for a better solution? Use the Shadowing feature of RDS. If you log in to the RDSH server where the...

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