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How can I as an administrator perform “shadowing” of a user in a Remote Desktop Services environment?

My scenario is the following:

The user will log on to the RDS system and get a remote desktop session on one out of several Session Hosts.

By knowing their user name I would like to have the ability to request “shadowing” so that I can see their session and assist them with support when they run in to trouble. Ideally, the user would receive a prompt where they can choose to either approve or request the shadow request.

Is it possible to do this without third-party software? Either via GUI or PowerShell.

I know that there exist software such as Galinette cendrée that can aid with this functionality, but I prefer to do it without installing any third-party tools.

Carl Winbäck
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Perhaps I'm not understanding what you're asking, but you can do this from your RDS collection in Server Manager.

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joeqwerty
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