
Mwuahaha! (and help them incidentally when they encounter problems using your servers) Disclaimerīefore you think you’ve reached Systems Administrators Heaven, let me point out to you that although your users don’t have to send invites anymore, they still have to approve before you can take a peek at their desktops. This post shows you how you can harness the power of Remote Assistance and Active Directory Group Policy Objects (GPO's) to create Unsolicited Remote Assistance so you can bug the living daylights out of your users. Although this is a nice feature when your mother calls you when shortcut bars in Internet Explorer suddenly disappear and you want to help her, but in your organization it’s like the computer she gave you on your 6th birthday ‘Wow! Too bad I don’t know how to put it to use yet…’ You could use MSN Messenger, Windows Messenger or e-mail to send the invites. Microsoft described this feature as the means to invite a person on another Microsoft Windows XP box to your Microsoft Windows XP box.

With the release of Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft introduced a feature called ‘Remote Assistance’.
