Way of running two concurrent VNC sessions, one per logged on user

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Apologies if this would be better on ServerFault, but I need to view logged on sessions on a remote computer with two concurrent RDP sessions.

Ideally the session would be available to connect to, as soon as either or both users were logged on, preferably without them having to take any action.

I've had a look at UltraVNC, but I can't see how to run two sessions (effectively 2 servers).

Thanks

Edit: apologies – Yes, Windows. Server 2008 R2 to be specific.

Best Answer

Use VNC to connect to the console session (I believe it does this by default already). Then use session shadowing to pull up both RDP sessions on the console that you are currently using VNC to connect to. This will allow you to see both sessions at the same time.

Setup

Setting this up is fairly easy:

  • First go to a domain control and click properties on the user(s) who's session you want to shadow.
  • Navigate to the Remote Control tab of properties and turn it on (which it will be by default). At this point you have to decide if you want them to grant you permission to do this or if you want to do it silently.
  • Then connect to the console session or another RDP session on the terminal server, open up task manager and go to the users tab. You can now right click the user you want to shadow and click connect to view their session.