![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Hands across space
Nov. 20th, 2010 02:39 pmI love remote-control software. Partly because it just geeks me out, and partly because it's a useful tool in my work (yawn) but mostly because it means I can stay in my pit and not get exposed to all the horrible diseases our patients carry.
But nothing stays the same and our licences for the current stuff are coming to an end. Our shiny MS tools (hella expensive but we already have them) have remote desktop in 'em, but it fails at one of the standard operations we do: Log the user off, log on with local admin rights, install stuff, then let the user log on and test while we watch. MS, they don't keep the session up during the logged-off stage. Ambassador, with this epic fail you are really spoiling us.
What do you nerdy chaps use? We've got over 5000 desktops, mostly XP with a scrag of 2000, a handful of 7. The scale of our kit makes per-machine licensing painful, especially In These Troubled Times, so I'm thinking UltraVNC.
But nothing stays the same and our licences for the current stuff are coming to an end. Our shiny MS tools (hella expensive but we already have them) have remote desktop in 'em, but it fails at one of the standard operations we do: Log the user off, log on with local admin rights, install stuff, then let the user log on and test while we watch. MS, they don't keep the session up during the logged-off stage. Ambassador, with this epic fail you are really spoiling us.
What do you nerdy chaps use? We've got over 5000 desktops, mostly XP with a scrag of 2000, a handful of 7. The scale of our kit makes per-machine licensing painful, especially In These Troubled Times, so I'm thinking UltraVNC.
