Playing RDP packet streams

[Guest yairinbal@yahoo.com]

Hello,

 

I am looking for a way to record and play RDP sessions.

 

I wonder of someone knows methods of rendering RDP protocol stream

into the screen.

 

For example, in Vista Microsoft provides the RDPViewer COM Object

(used by Windows Desktop Sharing API) which renders RDP into the

screen, however it requires actual TCP connection to the server and it

does not accepts RDP packet streams.

 

I know that there are some products that do so (like RecordTS), but I

wonder if a simple functionality can be provided by Microsoft SDKs.

 

Regards,

momo

[Guest Jeff Pitsch]

Re: Playing RDP packet streams

 

You mean this: http://www.tsfactory.com/pages/1/HOME/

 

Jeff Pitsch

Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services

 

 

<yairinbal@yahoo.com> wrote in message

news:2359d944-e22b-43c1-94b1-99309694a9db@m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...

> Hello,

>

> I am looking for a way to record and play RDP sessions.

>

> I wonder of someone knows methods of rendering RDP protocol stream

> into the screen.

>

> For example, in Vista Microsoft provides the RDPViewer COM Object

> (used by Windows Desktop Sharing API) which renders RDP into the

> screen, however it requires actual TCP connection to the server and it

> does not accepts RDP packet streams.

>

> I know that there are some products that do so (like RecordTS), but I

> wonder if a simple functionality can be provided by Microsoft SDKs.

>

> Regards,

> momo

[Guest Jeff Pitsch]

Re: Playing RDP packet streams

 

Are you the develop or work for the company Daniel? I had never heard of

the product before and it sounds pretty good. Any chance of getting an NFR

to play with?

 

--

Jeff Pitsch

Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services

 

"danielp" <danielp.3drppm@news.home.local> wrote in message

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>

> Hi yarinbal,

>

> I would suggest that you look into ObserveIT ('Record Terminal

> Sessions, RDP, Citrix and Window Console Sessions - ObserveIT People

> Audit' (http://www.observeit-sys.com)). ObserveIT is a software that

> allows monitoring and auditing of any user session that is created on

> servers or workstations, either by logging to the console of the server,

> or on a TS/RDP and Citrix sessions.

>

> While not strictly confined to RDP (like the tool Jeff pointed out in

> his post), ObserveIT will do much more than just record the visual

> screens. It indexes all the screenshots and adds metadata containing

> information about each separate screenshot. This allows for easy textual

> searches through the database. With this capability, ObserveIT acts not

> just like a "security camera", in other words - producing a long movie

> which you need to manually view in order to determine what, if at all,

> was done on the server/workstation. ObserveIT, by using the captured

> metadata, provides you with the ability to quickly read through a

> textual transcript of what was done on the machine, and thus, in a

> matter of seconds, you can decide if you need to watch the entire

> recorded session, start it at a specific point in time when the action

> was performed, or continue to the next session.

>

> I would be more than happy to assist you with any other questions you

> may have.

>

>

> --

> danielp

> Posted via http://ms-os.com Forum to Usenet gateway

>

[Guest Eugene Sukhodolin]

Re: Playing RDP packet streams

 

> I am looking for a way to record and play RDP sessions.

> I wonder of someone knows methods of rendering RDP protocol stream

> into the screen.

 

There are no SDKs or other publicly available developer tools for

this.

 

But feel free to contact me directly if you're interested in this

functionality. There is a good change that we'll release an SDK soon.

 

--

Sincerely,

Eugene Sukhodolin

CTO, TSFactory Inc.

http://www.tsfactory.com

[Guest Daniel Petri]

Re: Playing RDP packet streams

 

Hi Jeff,

 

Sorry for not writing with my Connect profile, I was on a different

computer. Sure, I have offered an NFR license for MVPs, and I would be more

than happy to get you one. Just contact me (manual editing of this address is

required): danielp at observeit-sys dot com, or through my website.

 

And not just you, any person needing assistance or seeking more information

can freely contact me, I would be happy to assist.

 

--

Cheers,

 

Daniel Petri

http://www.petri.co.il

 

How to ask a question:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

 

(This post is provided as-is with no warranties, expressed or otherwise,

etc.)

 

 

"Jeff Pitsch" wrote:

> Are you the develop or work for the company Daniel? I had never heard of

> the product before and it sounds pretty good. Any chance of getting an NFR

> to play with?

>

> --

> Jeff Pitsch

> Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services

>

> "danielp" <danielp.3drppm@news.home.local> wrote in message

> news:danielp.3drppm@news.home.local...

> >

> > Hi yarinbal,

> >

> > I would suggest that you look into ObserveIT ('Record Terminal

> > Sessions, RDP, Citrix and Window Console Sessions - ObserveIT People

> > Audit' (http://www.observeit-sys.com)). ObserveIT is a software that

> > allows monitoring and auditing of any user session that is created on

> > servers or workstations, either by logging to the console of the server,

> > or on a TS/RDP and Citrix sessions.

> >

> > While not strictly confined to RDP (like the tool Jeff pointed out in

> > his post), ObserveIT will do much more than just record the visual

> > screens. It indexes all the screenshots and adds metadata containing

> > information about each separate screenshot. This allows for easy textual

> > searches through the database. With this capability, ObserveIT acts not

> > just like a "security camera", in other words - producing a long movie

> > which you need to manually view in order to determine what, if at all,

> > was done on the server/workstation. ObserveIT, by using the captured

> > metadata, provides you with the ability to quickly read through a

> > textual transcript of what was done on the machine, and thus, in a

> > matter of seconds, you can decide if you need to watch the entire

> > recorded session, start it at a specific point in time when the action

> > was performed, or continue to the next session.

> >

> > I would be more than happy to assist you with any other questions you

> > may have.

> >

> >

> > --

> > danielp

> > Posted via http://ms-os.com Forum to Usenet gateway

> >

>

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