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I missed this thread 2 months ago somehow.

Being from St. Louis, I have never heard of these guys.

Sweet! Thanks @Dashrender

Set up a NAS, Use CloneZilla, and go...
Multiple hardware types are a pain, but the last 10 years have been the norm for me. I miss the days when I could build a bootable CD and would TnL (Toast and Load) a workstation for me...

Ah.. batch scripting with Ghost...

Looks like it was something behind the CloudFlare CDN?

@GregoryHall @Minion-Queen

Someone in the LinkedIn MAX RemoteManagement group had the answer I needed.

According to MS information on this website the correct way to call programs in the System32 folder is like this:

%windir%\Sysnative\name-of-file.exe, or for the Snipping Tool: %windir%\Sysnative\snippingtool.exe.

Once MAX RM pushed out the update to the client, it worked as expected.

I ended up changing the users Chrome password. I also recommended that she change all passwords. She had just started using LastPass and was adding sites as she went. Now she knows how to use the random password generator and is changing all passwords.

@thanksaj said:

@technobabble said:

@Minion-Queen said:

Yes it should happen quickly

I locked up a Join.me session on the PC by launching Task Manager

Way to go! 😛

Also locked up when I launched the events log. Not sure if this is normal for Join.me but it sucked.

@Hubtech Thanks for the assist.

Well while trying to find how to do this, I stumbled upon the MAX Remotemanagement system tray. I have enabled it on my test rig for...wait for it...testing.

Though I can't send a note to my customer, the reason I wanted to was for a pending reboot. I found that MAX already sends that information and you can't miss it. But I also found how to give the client a choice to abort the action and reboot later, which is what I wanted the note for.

I found this website which shows the cool stuff to do using GFI RemoteManagement's system tray.

To enable:

Logged into MAX RM portal chose the W10PE PC and right clicked on it. Clicked on System Tray and changed setting to On Added Menu Option 1 - Type: Local File - Label: ABORT reboot - path: shutdown.exe - Arguments: /a Click OK.

You WILL need to inform customer about the system tray and the ability to use the link to cancel a reboot. The system tray icon looks like a life preserver and if you click on it all of your menu options will be there such as website, support ticket link, how to stuff links etc.

Once the user logs back into their PC the system tray is automatically setup and is ready to go. If the user sees the message that the PC will be rebooted by your IT service provider, they can go to the system tray and click the "abort reboot" and go along their merry way.

@JaredBusch said:

That certainly is not a solution, that is a work around. Did they tell you what else may be affected by this change? What other Windows systems may now have problems because of it.

That's all the information I found online.

So I just used MS Remote Desktop Connection tool and was able to remote in. I wonder if I need to delete the TakeControl program on the PC and reinstall it.

@technobabble said:

@g.jacobse buy one for a customer and get one for the home office at no charge!

LOL - uhm,.. yea,.. I'm in the corp (non-profit) world.. so I don't have customers per say

Yes I would say so. For now.

@Minion-Queen said:

Oh go ahead and pick on me everyone else does 😝

Hey, that's ALSO MY job! 😛

@technobabble said:

@thanksaj said:

What PC are they connecting to, and are the credentials stored in the browser on that computer somehow? I'm confused how having them remote into a specific PC to do this when they likely need to know the credentials anyways adds any value.

This would be a one time log in and no, the password is not saved.

Ok, so how does having them use a separate PC make anything more secure? Unless they are using personal machines for work...

Ok then, waiting for HDMI cable.

@technobabble said:

@thanksaj onboard

Ok, get some screenshots when you can. That'll help us.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Nice

@Dashrender Yes, that can be done.

I use it this way because URLquery can, subjectively speaking, take a while if there are a lot of relay links (I found one site that had over 500 calls to other sites just by following one link), so I start by decoding the short URL to check where it's going. If I've never heard of it or I'm still suspicious, then it's off to URLquery.