ConfigMgr SCCM 2012 Details of New Remote Control Features CEP

Great post by Peter Daalmans on Details of New Remote Control Features (CEP).

After a period without any Community Evaluation Program session, another session was held today. This time Eric Orman presented the latest information about the Remote Control feature in Configuration Manager 2012.

Like mentioned earlier the gold (CTRL-ALT-DEL) key is back! Woho! The feature is rewritten from scratch because of security issues like there where in SMS 2003 and earlier. Let’s see what’s there.

Topics covered in the Original Post

Ability to send CTRL-ALT-DEL keystroke to host device.

Granular client agent settings at a collection level

Client Agent Settings changed

New: Firewall exception rules (in RC build)

New: ability to lock the keybord and mouse of the controlled host

New: Role based access (RBAC) control integration

Improved: High visibility notification “session  connection bar”

Severed connection

What’s Improved in Remote Control

New: Remote Control service

New: Multi Monitor support

New: Single cursor design

What’s persisted

Auditing of Remote Control

Supported platforms for Remote Control

Hardware requirements

Mirror Driver versus Screen scraper

Optimizing performance

Keyboard shortcuts

Compatibility

Security

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