Accessing a computer remotely

Hello, We just started using a software by Altiris called Altiris eXpress. It lets you install, update, and make changes to software and other things remotely. It also lets you connect to the workstation remotely and take control of it just like PC Anywhere. So far I am very pleased with this package.

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Three ways. Firstly you could consider using a package such as Altiris, which takes images of PCs on your network. It can then be used to fix missing files as these can be backed up from the image, or to deploy new applications to the group of workstations once imaged.

Alternatively you can place exe's within the Netlogon directory. These programs are run at Login and so ALL users logging in will update their workstations with the new files.

This can be a bit problematic. You could alwaysconsider the Kixstart Login script tool as part of NT Resource kit. This will also give you a tool for scripting complex updates. (info available from technet.com)

Happy deploying

If you are wanting to remotely manage a users workstation or a server, install software remotely, or even help a user with a problem by watching what they are doing without leaving your desk, you want to use Microsoft's SMS 2.0. It allows all of these things, plus allows software and hardware inventory, software control. Lots of features.

I use a product call VNC viewer from AT&T, it's free and you can use it with almost any system.Check it out at http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/

We have used VNC for a while and it was a nice start but ran into trouble with the refresh rate. I would highly recommend trying out Remote Administrator V2.0 I believe it will meet all your needs.

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