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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 can I access the bios remotely on a desktop computer acting as a server?

What are the options for having remote control via network of a computer even down to the "bios" level. I've seen Dell's DRAC / Out-of-band management that they have for their servers, and typically is a built-in management card. I'm asking about…
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Enable RDP using WinRM or other alternatives to psexec

I am writing a program that takes a list of servers and enables/disables RDP. Currently I am utilizing psexec and up in till this morning, everything worked. I made no change in code/usernames/passwords and today I am getting the following error…
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Windows Remote Desktop auto disconnection due to autologin

I am working with machine that are hosting several PCs running windows 7 pro. I quite often need to connect to these PCs using windows remote desktop. This PCs need to have the autologin feature ON (session need to be localy open when the machine…
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Linux: How do I disable any kinds of remote control for a certain user?

How do I disable any kinds of remote control (SSH, X, NFS, SMB, ... what else?) for a certain user? Or, asked the other way round: How do I disable remote control for all users except a certain one? Is there a way to do it in one place? (By placing…
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App server takes a long time to connect to MySQL Server

I have a strange problem that I couldn't figured out and would like some expert advice to handle this thing. My database is running on a seperate machine My application server tries to connect to login and it keeps on waiting for response New…
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Terminate remote process when backgrounded ssh session is terminated

So right now I have a bash script that runs a command on a remote machine using ssh. The machine running the bash script is a Linux machine and the remote machine is a Windows machine running cygwin. The bash script contains the following…
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Tips for managing multiple non-domain, off-site computers?

My home office uses a Windows domain that hosts about 25 nodes. There are 17 locations out in the field (70% Windows XP, 30% Windows 7) with anywhere from 4-10 computers that are not joined to this domain and don't exist on a domain. We…
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Simultaneous Remote Desktop Connections in Windows Server

I would like to remote control the administrator user of my Windows Server 2008 R2 simultaneously from 3 remote computers. To do that, in Group Policy, I disabled "restrict to a single remote desktop session" and I put "limit number of connections"…
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Can I delete an application remotely using a Blackberry Enterprise Server?

A client has rolled out a beta version of an application to a number of Blackberries manually and now wants to delete it ahead of rolling out the new version. Is it possible to do this remotely using the BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server)? I'm…
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Remote deployment of OS X as an full version upgrade, not a fresh install

Anyone have any ideas or suggestions (or know if its even possible) to remote upgrade a fleet of Macs from 10.6.8 to 10.7,10.8, or 10.9 remotely. I presume I can push the installESD through ARD, but I want it to run completely unattended. If it is…
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command parameter in .ssh/authorized_keys

Possible Duplicate: simple rsync in crontab without password I'm implementing remote backups using rsync. The backup server connects to the host containing the stuff to backup (serverX), using certificates. It works great. But now I want to…
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How to remote boot from bios and install an operating system from local USB

So we have a bunch of systems distributed across a semi-large area and are looking to upgrade soon. We are looking for systems that could preferably be booted from a USB drive in the system remotely. I've seen things referencing IP KVMs and vPro to…
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IIS/AppCmd - create new users remotely

Is there a way to add new users to IIS remotely? I want to create new users from another web site located on another server so that I can log on to the server with these accounts to add and edit (new) web sites. Ideally I want to do this without…
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Powershell: Call one remote script from another remote script

I inherited some code where one script references another like this: #Script1.ps1 param($arg1) # do some stuff # call script2 with argument from script1 .\script2.ps1 $arg1 #script2.ps1 param($arg1) # do some stuff unique to this script This…
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Finding forgotten RDP sessions?

I work in an enterprise environment with hundreds upon hundreds of Windows servers (all in a single AD domain), both locally and in other countries. I'm often required to log into an RDP session on various servers and, sometimes, I may forget to log…
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