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Александр Пушкин
Александр Пушкин

Reputation: 339

C# automation over RDP

I have a windows network (not connected to domain) and I need to provide some automation on each PC at certain time of the day. There are several tasks - launch executables, managing FS, transfering files. All this actions must be implemented via RDP, using C#. What is common approach to achieve this? I don't have experience using RDP within software. So are there .NET classes or free libraries I can use to get RDP functionality in my software. Thank you!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 409

Answers (1)

Yaugen Vlasau
Yaugen Vlasau

Reputation: 2218

All the tasks you have listed relyed much more on security issues for machines within your network and a user logged-in priveledges a rather than a usage of RPD. Within a windows domain the tasks like yours are usually delegated to ActiveDirectory administration and policies.

In case of a not Windows Domain Network you will need to use a mechanism that will be presented in following configuration:

  • a client installed on each particular machine under proper permissions. The client should implement a subscriber pattern.
  • a server installed on a "commander" machine. the server should inplement a publisher pattern.

There should be a lot of ready solution that should implement the concept of content disribution and starting specific scripts. I think that your investment in such tools research and evaluation will be much more time- and cost- effective rather than writing an app that "uses RPD functionality"

But if there is a reason that prevents usage of 3rd parties, I would go for implementaion of WCF service that will be installed on all clients. This service should be "trained" to do all your suff on client. Server side you will need an appliaction or a service that will publish events for clients or trigger known clients methods.

Upvotes: 1

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