

If you are using an account with administrative privileges that isn’t the named Administrator account, you must run in administrator mode (right click on cmd and click run as administrator)Ģ) Type quser.exe to determine the session number of the user session you want to shadow.Ĭ:\Users\puter>quser.exe (note: typing “>qwinsta” without. You must be using an account with administrative privileges. To shadow another user’s sessions in Windows Server 2016 in Workgroup mode, use the following steps:ġ) Open command window by clicking start, CMD. When the server is in Workgroup mode (not connected to domain) the Remote Desktop Services Manager page is not accessible in Server Manager.

If the server is connected to a domain, you can go to server manager, RDS Manager, and right click on current sessions to shadow and connect. This post is about how to shadow a user session if the Windows Remote Desktop Server is not connected to a domain.
