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<UserAccount> Properties: Remote Control Tab

Applies To: Windows Server 2008

The Remote Control tab allows you to configure the remote control settings for a user's Terminal Services session.

Item Details

Enable remote control

Select if you want to observe or actively control the user's Terminal Services session.

If you want to remote control the user's session without the user's permission, clear the Require user's permission check box.

Level of control

Specify the level of control that you want to have over a user's session.

If you select Interact with the session, you will be able to input keyboard and mouse actions to the session.

Additional considerations

  • Membership in Administrators, or equivalent, is the minimum required to configure the properties of a local user account.

  • Membership in Account Operators, or equivalent, is the minimum required to configure the properties of most domain user accounts. In some cases, membership in Domain Admins, or equivalent, is the minimum required.

  • Review details about using the appropriate accounts and group memberships at Local and Domain Default Groups (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=83477).

  • For more information about remotely controlling a user session on a terminal server, see the topic "Remotely Control a User Session" in the Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Manager Help.

  • You can use Terminal Services Configuration to configure remote control settings on a per-connection basis on a terminal server. Remote control settings configured by using Terminal Services Configuration will take precedence over the remote control settings that have been configured for a specific user account.

  • For information about configuring remote control settings on a per-connection basis on a terminal server by using Terminal Services Configuration, see the topic "Configuring Terminal Services Connections" in the Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Configuration Help.

  • For information about configuring remote control settings by using Group Policy settings, see Using Group Policy Settings.

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