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"Remote" - the term could refer to resources, access, control, user, presence, etc.

"Remote" could refer to either the network resource availability (e.g. "the user can interrogate the information remotely"), the user access to a network resource (as in "server access authorization through a Remote Desktop Connection/Protocol"), or even the location of the user related to the network accessed ("A Teleworker is allowed to connect remotely on 2 days per week through VPN/Remote Access, if there is a home office space available and all the conditions are met to allow the worker to perform the expected duties remotely").

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How to use Remote Desktop for administration when a policy is set to start a program automatically?

On a Windows 2008 R2 server with the Remote Desktop Services role installed, I have used a local group policy to start a program automatically. How do I log into the console session to manage the server using Remote Desktop in this scenario? In…
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Can't create share on remote server without admin rights on local server

We have a windows terminal server used by support staff. They do not have local admin rights on the terminal server. However they do have local admin rights on various Server 2003 file servers that they connect to from the terminal server and…
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Automated Backup System Managed Remotely - Ubuntu Server 10.04 (Other OS if recommended)

After procrastinating so long to get a backup system in place, and losing some important data on the way... I've finally decided to start stetting it up. After searching for Ubuntu specific solutions I found that there are quite a few options out…
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ytalk - how to make it display in columns instead of rows?

I use ytalk on one of my servers for training purposes (only local users can connect) - so that a shared shell sessions can be opened (a la screen -x) and comments can be added while a session is ongoing. Is it possible to have ytalk display in…
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Use local dotfiles on remote session

I have a few servers that I have personal accounts on, I have created an SVN repository to contain my home directory so that I can manage my dotfiles across these servers, which I'm finding works very well and makes it easy for me to track the…
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What tools are available to scan remote desktops for certain types of files?

I need to scan about 50 desktop computers and check to see if any *.doc, *.xls, *.ppt etc... files are being stored locally. I am wondering what tools might be available for this. A quick Google didn't find any great solutions so I am thinking I…
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Setting up a proxy on a remote server?

was wondering if it's possible to set up on a proxy on a remote server. I've tried PHProxy, which is a web based browser-in-browser proxy script I could upload via FTP, but it didn't always function with scripts or flash. Would it be possible to…
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vmware - ACE, Workstation - how to manage remoe clients?

Exploring Vmware products/services and have a few questions. As I understand VM, you can use VMWare Workstation to create a VM of a target machine/box/OS. Let's call this VM, "foo". If I have 100 client PCs in my dept, and I want to install the VM…
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Running remote commands on Windows like ssh -c on linux

Is there a way to run remote commands in a windows system just like you can in Linux using the "ssh -c" command. Thanks! Autobyte
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Windows Certificate Authority Server runaway issuing certs

In our environment, we have a Windows Certificate Authority server. We've distributed our CA to our folks, and generated some certificates with CSRs for internal websites. That works great. We tried to configure a GPO for our VMs to install the CA…
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Is it possible to create a Windows 10 user profile for a remote user without using their credentials?

We have remote employees where their laptop has died and they need a replacement. In order to prepare a laptop to ship to them, we currently ask them for their username and password (ouch) so that we can login to the laptop and create the Windows…
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What is the best way to reset a set of Windows 10 laptops to a default state remotely?

I have about 23 Windows 10 laptops (currently @ 1803) which are used by students for training courses that run for several weeks. I've found that students leave lots of files behind when the course completes including answers/projects/etc for work…
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using named-pipes to control a remote ssh session in BASH

My question is mostly based on this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22479631/pipe-timely-commands-to-ssh?rq=1 I am following above question and I am able to connect to a server, like this: mkfifo CMDs.txt exec 7> CMDs.txt then from another…
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Managed Sharing of a Windows Computer Preferably Using Remote Desktop

Let's imagine that one has a Windows computer with expensive hardware attached. Example of such hardware: a hardware test-bed / prototype. Each worker needs this PC only several times a week, say for 2h each time. We use Remote Desktop to access…
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Windows Xp - Allowing users to abort remote shutdown

I have developed a batch script that will remotley shutdown all of our PC's (using the shutdown \\machinename command) in the office outwith working hours, but would like to give the users the ability to cancel this shutdown, say for example if…
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