Ondrej Žilinec – IT Blog

Couple days ago I wrote about Remote Assistance. I wanted to make this feature as close as possible to administrators so I decided to implement special item in context menu of ADUC. Let’s do it.

We need to prepare script first. I wrote very simple one:

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‘
‘ Script to run Remote Assitance on domain computer
‘

Set wshArguments = WScript.Arguments
Set objUser = GetObject(wshArguments(0))

‘
‘ Check if Remote Assistance is installed
‘

Set fso = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)
If (fso.FileExists(“C:\Windows\System32\msra.exe”)) Then
 ‘ Is istalled
 Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
 Return = objShell.Run(“C:\Windows\System32\msra.exe /offerra ” & objUser.dNsHostName, 1, true)
Else
 ‘ Is not installed, error.
 Wscript.Echo “Microsoft Remote Assistance is not installed on this machine.”
End If

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Let’s save this script as .vbs file into \\DOMAIN.LOCAL\NETLOGON directory. Now when we have a script, we need to create context menu in ADUC. This can be accomplished using ADSI Edit tool. Start ADSI Edit tool and look for CN=409,CN=DisplaySpecifiers,CN=Configuration,DC=domain,DC=local. There look for CN=computer-Display. Right-click on CN=computer-Display and select Properties.

In attribute adminContextMenu add following line:

2, &Remote Assistance,\\domain.local\NETLOGON\RemoteAssistance.vbs

Description:

2 – order number

&Remote Assistance – name of the item in context menu

\\domain.local\NETLOGON\RemoteAssistance.vbs – command to run

When you click OK, OK in ADSI Edit your work is done. Now when you click on computer account you can see and use following context menu item:

And that’s all folks.