Initiate Shadow Of Remote Connection From Server 2012 R2 Command Line
Terminal Services had the ability to shadow a user’s session; however, this was removed in Windows Server 2012. Now Windows Server 2012 R2 brings this capability back. It can be initiated using Server Manager as shown below, but many people also want to initiate from the command line.
The old shadow.exe command is removed in Windows Server 2012 R2, so the trick is to use mstsc with new /shadow:<session id> switch. To find the list of sessions use the qwinsta.exe command, for example:
C:>qwinsta
SESSIONNAME USERNAME ID STATE TYPE DEVICE
services 0 Disc
console 1 Conn
rdp-tcp#37 bruce 2 Active
>rdp-tcp#38 administrator 3 Active
31c5ce94259d4… 65536 Listen
rdp-tcp 65537 Listen
SESSIONNAME USERNAME ID STATE TYPE DEVICE
services 0 Disc
console 1 Conn
rdp-tcp#37 bruce 2 Active
>rdp-tcp#38 administrator 3 Active
31c5ce94259d4… 65536 Listen
rdp-tcp 65537 Listen
This shows the session ID that I can then use (e.g., mstsc /shadow:2) for the user bruce session.
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