So many thanks to everyone involved to the original version of this hack for previous versions of windows, and a special thanks to those who put in the time to bring it to windows 8.1 pro. I have it working but I can't figure out how to shadow a session. Does anyone know how? The option isn't there when I right click on the session under users tab in task manager; where it was in 7. Thanks in advance!
Found it...if anyone is looking.... mstsc /shadow:<sessionid> /control /noConsentPrompt So now I've got to figure out how to get around this error: The Group Policy setting is configured to require the user's consent. Verify the configuration of the policy setting. The GP editor won't let me in because I'm not on a domain user account, so I guess the setting is in the registry somewhere. Any ideas?
Continuing down the rabbit hole... The following site has been somewhat helpful: etutorials.org/Microsoft+Products/microsoft+windows+server+2003+terminal+services/Chapter+6+Registry/Registry+Keys+for+Terminal+Services/ I set fInheritShadow = 0 and Shadow = 2, but no change. It allows me to shadow through the cmd above but asks for permission. Stuck again....
Well I'm an idiot.... Local Group Policy Editor -> Comp Config/Admin Templates/Win Comp/Remote Desktop Services/Remote Desktop Session Host/Connections/Set rules for remote control of Remote Desktop Services user sessions = Enabled:Full Control w/o user's permission Also figured out how to get session ids... CMD->"query session" Hope this info helps someone...