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July 28, 2010 at 11:39 AM
mcbtech

Remote Support Software and UAC issue

by mcbtech . Updated 15 years, 11 months ago

Our company is starting to deploy Windows 7 machines to some of our users in our domain. We have several sites that we support in one location. We use a remote support software called Remote HelpDesk. Alot of times we have to install various applications to these users offsite by using the remote helpdesk and all of the users are restricted users with no local admin rights. In XP we could just click on User Accounts and type in the local admin password and change there account to admin and then Logout and login again as that user. Once we installed the app we would remove there rights. Now in Windows 7 with UAC you get the password prompt when clicking on user accounts but are unable to type in anything in the the fields remotely I guess because the secure desktop thing. The user can type in the boxes but not the support tech remotely using the remote software. We have tested this with several other remote support progams and it does the same thing such as Team Viewer, Go to My PC etc. It does work with Windows remote Assistant which is built into windows but we don’t want to use that. Anyone know of a way around this?
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