Showing posts with label Remote Assistance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Remote Assistance. Show all posts

Friday, October 1, 2010

offer a remote assistance in win7

Create a shortcut with  %windir%\system32\msra.exe /offerra

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Offer Remote Assistance to the end user by using IP/hostname

By create a shortcut:
hcp://CN=Microsoft%20Corporation,L=Redmond,S=Washington,C=US/Remote%20Assistance/Escalation/Unsolici

Offer Remote Assistance

With Remote Assistance, you can offer help to a local area network user if you have administrative privileges and know the computer name or IP address. When you start Remote Assistance, you can view the user's screen, chat in real time, and work from a remote location on the user's computer.

Type or paste the computer name or IP address:

!cid__1_02FC4CEC02FC4A74002BB7BB48257781

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Saturday, June 19, 2010

Remote assistance a program could not start

If the remote assistance a program could not start and you find the following error in your event log:

 

Event Type:        Error

Event Source:    Remote Assistance

Event Category:                None

Event ID:              5251

Date:                     5/3/2010

Time:                     4:27:02 PM

User:                     N/A

Computer:          abc

Description:

The HelpAssistant account is disabled or missing, or the password could not be verified. Remote Assistance will be disabled. Restart the computer in safe mode and type the following text at the command prompt: sessmgr.exe -service.  If the problem persists, contact Microsoft Product Support.

 

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

 

The solution:

1. run sessmgr.exe -service

2. reboot the machine

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Offer Remote Assistance and Request Remote assistance shortcut

Open Remote assistant admin console

"%ProgramFiles%\Internet Explorer\iexplore" hcp://CN=Microsoft%20Corporation,L=Redmond,S=Washington,C=US/Remote%20Assistance/Escalation/Unsolicited/Unsolicitedrcui.htm

 

 

Request Remote assistance shortcut

%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\rcimlby.exe –LaunchRA

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Enable Remote Assistance by GPO

Remote Assistance

Remote Assistance is disable in Domain environment by default

We need to enable it by GPO

Enable and configure Solicited Remote Assistance

Permit remote control of this computer: Allow helpers to remotely control the computer

Remark: (May be a bugs) The client’s control panel remote assistance tab will still no change, the check box will grey in color and no tick (show not enable) even the policy is running. (Need to check the policy by run rsop.msc or gpreult) and run the remote assistance wizard to test the policy is running or not.

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