Connect/Shadow to a Users currently active remote desktop session

  1. On the server that the user is logged in, run Powershell as an administrator.
  2. Type in the command "quser". A list of currently active remote desktop sessions will appear. Take note of the ID of the person you want to shadow.
  3. Type in the command "mstsc /shadow:ID /control /noconsentprompt". Replace ID with the ID of the user from the previous step. This will launch a window with the users session in view and with control. 


Note: if you just want to look at the users session and don't want to control it, you can remove /control parameter. Removing /noconsentprompt parameter will send an invitation to the user which has to be accepted first.


I am working on getting this working where we don't need to login to the specific server but at the moment I am having issues with RPC errors. I'll update this guide once I get that fixed.


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