SCCM Remote Control Launcher

Hello!
Not sure I am posting in the good section.
I have developed a HTA (Html Application) UI to Remote Control computers that have SMS Client installed.
It prevents my Service Desk to open the SCCM console each time they want to remote control a computer to help a user.
In addition of launch a Remote control session, the tool has some small features:
- Seek a computer from the current SCCM MP (MP can be changed)
- Remove the user's permission window ('Asking user's permission...')
- Add the user's permission window ('Asking user's permission...')
- Force remote control to be enable
- History
Tool should be launched from a computer/server which has the SCCM admin console installed.



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Let me know if you are interested or if have any idea of feature that can improve the tool use!
Thanks
Adrien

Where can the HTA be download?

I have edited the post and added the download link

Very nice HTA. What is the max number of results it will display for the partial name search?

Thank you :)  there is no max number of result, it will display all computers found in a scrolled dropbox...
However I have limited the search feature at two character required at least.
Do you think I should limit the max number of result to limit the application time out?

The option to stop the search would be good in case the search takes too long. Also if you do a partial search and you move to another window and then back to the remote control window the search results box is gone. Resolving that would be a plus as well.

That is a very nice utility you created.  I like the simplicity of it and the fact that you have options to disable the allow option and to make sure that the ability to remote is turned on at the remote location.  That last one I may actually remove from the gui and force it no matter what.

Again nice job.

Roger Truss
Windows Administrator
SCCM Admin
MDT Admin
Kaspersky Admin :( 

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For our techs I took the need to have the sccm console installed for remot control and now I will have to incorporate this into the remote control we have here.

Roger Truss
Windows Administrator
SCCM Admin
MDT Admin
Kaspersky Admin :( 

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@tedwards559: The option to abort the search process require multi-threading that is unfortunately quite hard to reproduce with HTA applications... (It could be possible, with setInterval()/clearInterval() functions, but not very proper)
@rtruss: Many thanks! I am happy that the tool can be useful to others :)
Thanks for the rate as well!

is anyone having issue getting to this link? it timing out for me...

Hey dblowersjr
I have no problem to download it. Try this link: http://adradr.free.fr/sccm Then get  the RemoteControlLauncher.hta file

i like it and it makes Remote Control simple to use. however. the registry edits to not work on Windows 7 x64. but did work on windows 7 x32 OS. (remove asking user's permission.." force asking users permission... force enable remote control".

@dblowersjr Thank you very much to have reported the incompatibility. I have indeed forgotten it as I have no 64bits OS yet in my client forest. I will update the tool to edit the good registry keys for 64bits OS. Then all features will work fine for any OS version.
I will let you know once I pushed the new release of the tool.
Thanks again!

I have updated and tested it (short tests though) with win7 x64 and it seems to work.... will post it shortly
 
OK, it is uploaded but had to  change it to a txt file...

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Roger Truss
Windows Administrator
SCCM Admin
MDT Admin
Kaspersky Admin :( 

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This is really a nice utility.  It did need to be tweaked just a bit though.  The check boxes needed to be radio buttons.  I also made some other minor updates.....
 
      Updated to Version 1.2 by Roger Truss - Feb 25 2011
        1. Changed the user permissions boxes to radio buttons so that you would not accidently check both of them.
        2. Some rewording of the gui
        3. Layout changes due to the addition of the radio buttons.
        4. Resized to reduce the new whitespace.
        5. Now detects remote PC Proc architecture (x86 or x64) and performs accordingly.
        6. Added popout items to the Search and MP buttons.
        7. Set the hta icon to use the default x86 install location.
        8. Formatted the code so it flowed better.
       
        Next steps, allow it to function without the SCCM Console being installed and instead using the remote control portions only. (I have created an installer to do just that for our help desk)
 
 

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Roger Truss
Windows Administrator
SCCM Admin
MDT Admin
Kaspersky Admin :( 

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Nice job rtruss ;)
I will probably develop an executable file once I have time... In order to be able to use it without the SCCM Console being installed (ie embedding the RC.exe) + some extra features that couldn't be possible with HTA.
I will post it here

"including embedding the RC.exe" -- I'd be careful about that.  You don't want to get into trouble w/MS because you are offering bits of *their* application inside of a publicly offered package you have created.

Instead of doing that, I'd have a popup or something where if rc.exe is missing from where you expect it to be, it states "you will need to copy rc.exe from <your installed location>\folder" to "this folder".  We are all ConfigMgr admins here; we'll know how to do 'run another program first', or put your install inside of a Task Sequence and copy the additional necessary files we get from our own environment when this would be deployed.  Internally (like Roger did) we could create our own packages, but I'd be paranoid about offering something publicly.

Very nice, though!

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Anyone seen one of these for SCCM 2012 yet?

Brian Hayes
 
Primary and a CAS
Windows 2008 R2 Standard
SCCM 2012 Sp1
SQL 2008 R2 
10000 clients (XP, Win7)

Cool. Yea Ron Crumbaker has something similar and got around the issue by making a share from the SCCM server so there is no need to copy the rc.exe.

Carl Polk

Do you have a link by chance for a download location of it?

Brian Hayes
 
Primary and a CAS
Windows 2008 R2 Standard
SCCM 2012 Sp1
SQL 2008 R2 
10000 clients (XP, Win7)