Remote Desktop shadowing
Shadowing is a feature that gives you the ability to watch or control ('shadow') an active session. This does not replace the session, and won't result into the original session getting disconnected.
This feature works on all active sessions including the 'console session', and do not require the computer to be a Remote Desktop server. Which means you can also do this take over normal desktop computers screens.
A session can only be shadowed using or authenticating with an account which has shadow rights, you do not necessarily need the credentials from the account of the shadowed session.
By default all Administrators have this permission. For more information regarding permissions within Remote Desktop, please refer to the Remote Desktop permissions article.
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Setup
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Usage
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Tool
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Trivia
- Shadowing will display all screens of the shadowed session and will scale them to fit into one window, there is no feature to select only specific screens.
- Even though some editions of Windows don't officially support being a Remote Desktop host, manually setting this up through this article (or tool) will make this feature work.
