Remote Assistance Connects, but option to Take Control Missing

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Hi,

I can start a remote assistance connection OK, but when the Remote
Assistance window opens I can only view the other person's desktop. The Take
Control button and all the others are missing.

Anyone ever seen this and resolved it? If so, how?

Thanks,
 
DSchenk952 said:
Hi,

I can start a remote assistance connection OK, but when the Remote
Assistance window opens I can only view the other person's desktop. The
Take
Control button and all the others are missing.

Anyone ever seen this and resolved it? If so, how?

Thanks,
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Its possible their PC has a group policy set to only allow the Expert
(that's you) to view their desktop and not take control. On their PC and as
an administrator go to "Start -> Run" and type gpedit.msc to open the group
policy editor. Navigate to the "Local Computer Policy -> Computer
Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> System ->
Remote Assistance" tree and check the properties for the "Solicited Remote
Assistance Policy".

If their PC is part of a domain environment (ie. not a stand alone PC in a
home work group environment) they may need to talk to the network
administrators about this.

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Hi Al,

That wasn't it, it wasn't configured, so I checked it through control panel
and everything looks OK.

I wonder how I can get her to connect to something via port 3389? Although
if the port was blocked I shouldn't be able to see her, correct? We can
establish a connection, but it's view only.
 
DSchenk952 said:
Hi Al,

That wasn't it, it wasn't configured, so I checked it through control
panel
and everything looks OK.

I wonder how I can get her to connect to something via port 3389?
Although
if the port was blocked I shouldn't be able to see her, correct? We can
establish a connection, but it's view only.
Click to expand...

Right, it comes down to a permissions issue of some sort because you are
connecting so its not a port blocking issue...

Hmmm... Let me think about this. I rarely use RA so I am kind of grasping at
straws right now. Hopefully someone else can chime in with a useful
suggestion...

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Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)

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