Launch an app in another active TS session?

[Guest Rob Sibarelo]

Hi Gang. Here's what I want to do:

 

Log on to a TS server with an administrative level account, and use a command

line to start an interactive app under another *already running* session.

For example, to launch an instance of notepad for someone who cannot figure

out how to click the Notepad.exe icon on their desktop, but without having

to shadow or remote control their session. Ideally this would be a scriptable

technique. It seems possible because there are tools that can kill such apps,

but I don't know of a way to launch them.

 

I don't think RunAs or PSrun using the credentials of the target session

are what I am looking for - these tools seem to start apps in a new, invisible

session which is inaccessible to users. Maybe I'm doing it wrong. I've combed

over at least a dozen terminal services "tips and tools" sites and found

lots of interesting goodies, but nothing that seems to fit this description.

I am hoping something along the lines of C:\TSAppLauncherThingy.exe -a notepad.exe

-s SESSIONID would do the trick. Is there such a tool?

 

TIA

 

Rob