Windows – Share MacBook webcam with PC over Remote Desktop

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I have a desktop PC in an office with a webcam attached. Normally when I'm in the office I use this for meetings, etc.

I would like to connect to this PC remotely via RDP, but from my MacBook. One thing I need to be able to do is join meetings through RDP, sharing the mic and webcam of my MacBook to the PC.

Is this possible, either via Microsoft Remote Desktop, or other third-party tools?

This seems similar to this ~7-year old question, but I was hoping to re-open it for more current discussion:

How can I use or share the integrated webcam on my laptop as a webcam on my desktop?

The software in the above answer is either EOL (dead links) or ~$100. I'd like to find a way to do this via Apple Remote Desktop, Remote Desktop Connection, or some other free/open-source/more reasonably-priced (and less sketchy looking) tool.

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If you have an iPad you can try iCam "iCam allows you to remotely monitor multiple live video and audio webcam feeds"

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Can you check the event log of the machine to which you are trying to connect? It should contain a error for RDP. I had faced the same issue recently. It was due to a Microsoft patch which was overwritten by Windows 7 SP1. (Basically the patch which was of higher version was installed before SP1 by Windows Update.)

FIX: Uninstall KB2667402 and re-install it. See this post for details.

After you install security update 2667402 on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2, and then you install Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows 7 or for Windows Server 2008 R2, the binary version of Rdpcorekmts.dll is 6.1.7600.16952 and not 6.1.7601.17767. In this scenario, you may be unable to create a remote desktop session to control the Windows 7-based or Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer.

This issue occurs because the SP1 binary version of Rdpcorekmts.dll was not originally deployed when security update 2667402 was originally installed.

USB Webcam over Remote Desktop Connection

I found this solution from another website and it worked for me (same camera too).

On the PC you're connecting to, change the following in Edit Group Policy:

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host > Device and Resource Redirection

Do not allow supported Plug and Play device redirection: Disabled

Finally, reboot the remote computer. This is all I had to do.

The post also mentioned this setting as well, but I didn't find it necessary when going to a non-virtual machine:

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host > Remote Session Environment > RemoteFX for Windows Server 2008 R2

Configure RemoteFX: Enabled

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