With Shadowing concept removed from Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Services, a lot of users want an alternative mechanism to be able to Remote Assist an RDS user. Please find the steps to request for remote assistance in Windows 8.

Connect to VPN in Windows 10 with one click desktop shortcut In Windows 10, due to the new Settings app, you need to perform many clicks before you can connect to a VPN server. In Windows 7 or 8.1, you could create a shortcut to your VPN connection and connect to it with just one click. But Windows 10 does not allow you this. Here is a workaround. Remote assistance (Easy Connect) I have a new Windows 8 Laptop and have successfully networked with my W7 PC (Ethernet Cable).When experimenting with 'Easy Connect' it won't connect and found something that says something about the IPv4 address.How do I fix it?

1. Either go to command prompt and type msra.exe and Hit Enter; or go to the Modern Desktop in Windows 8 and type Remote Assistance, and select Invite someone to connect to your PC and help you, or offer to help someone else.

2. Select Invite someone you trust to help you.

3. You can send the invitation through a file, an email or by using Easy Connect if it is present on the both the users’ machines. In this blog, we will select the email option.

4. Send the Invitation file to the helper.

5. The code that gets generated needs to be entered by the helper as well.

6. It will prompt whether you want to allow the user to access the computer. Say Yes.

7. Once allowed, you get the option of sharing screen, chatting and pausing the connection.

In Remote Desktop Services, if you are an administrator and have appropriate remoting permissions on a computer, then you don’t have to ask for access in a remote session. You can directly log into the session and see what the user is doing. In RDS in Windows Server 2008 R2, it was called shadowing, while in Remote Assistance, it is called as Unsolicited Remote Assistance.

To start unsolicited Remote Assistance, go to command prompt and type msra.exe /offerra. It will open the following wizard:

Type the name of the machine and Hit Next. This will allow you to connect to the computer without asking for permission to access it.

Hope this helps. Happy Reading!

Microsoft Windows 10 Connect App

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You can use the Microsoft Graph Security API to connect Microsoft security products, services, and partners to streamline security operations and improve threat protection, detection, and response capabilities. The Microsoft Graph Security API is an intermediary service (or broker) that provides a single programmatic interface to connect multiple Microsoft Graph Security providers (also called security providers or providers). Requests to the Microsoft Graph Security API are federated to all applicable security providers. The results are aggregated and returned to the requesting application in a common schema, as shown in the following diagram. For details, see Microsoft Graph Security API data flow.
For information about authorization, see Authorization and the Microsoft Graph Security API. For information about permissions, including delegated and application permissions, see Permissions.

Why use the Microsoft Graph Security API?

The Microsoft Graph Security API makes it easy to connect with security solutions from Microsoft and partners. It allows you to more readily realize and enrich the value of these solutions. You can connect easily with the Microsoft Graph Security API by using one of the following approaches, depending on your requirements:

Unify and standardize alert tracking

Connect once to integrate alerts from any Microsoft Graph-integrated security solution and keep alert status and assignments in sync across all solutions. You can also stream alerts to security information and event management (SIEM) solutions, such as Splunk using Microsoft Graph Security API connectors. For more info about solution integrations with the security API entities, see Security solution integrations using the Microsoft Graph Security API.

Correlate security alerts to improve threat protection and response

Correlate alerts across security solutions more easily with a unified alert schema. This not only allows you to receive actionable alert information but allows security analysts to pivot and enrich alerts with asset and user information, enabling faster response to threats and asset protection.

Update alert tags, status, and assignments

Tag alerts with additional context or threat intelligence to inform response and remediation. Ensure that comments and feedback on alerts are captured for visibility to all workflows. Keep alert status and assignments in sync so that all integrated solutions reflect the current state. Use webhook subscriptions to get notified of changes.

Unlock security context to drive investigation

Dive deep into related security-relevant inventory (like users, hosts, and apps), then add organizational context from other Microsoft Graph providers (Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, Office 365) to bring business and security contexts together and improve threat response.

Automate security workflows and reporting

Automate security management, monitoring, and investigations to improve operational efficiencies-and response times. Get deeper insights and context by integrating Microsoft Graph Security into your reports and dashboards.

Get deep insights to train security solutions

Visualize your data across different security products running in your organization to get deeper security insights. Discover opportunities to learn from the data and train your security solutions. The schema provides multiple properties to pivot on to build rich exploratory datasets using your security data.

Utilize your threat intelligence in Microsoft security solutions (preview)

Automatically send your threat indicators to Microsoft security solutions to enable alert, block, or allow actions. Use the Microsoft Graph Security API directly or take advantage of integrations with leading threat intelligence platforms.

Act quickly in response to new threats (preview)

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Enable swift action to defend against new threats, such as actions to block files, URLs, domains, or IP addresses from within your security tools and workflows.

Proactively manage security risks (preview)

Use the Microsoft Secure Score (preview) to provide visibility into your organization’s security needs and get suggestions for how to improve it, and project an improved score after those suggestions are incorporated. Easily measure your progress over time and get insights on specific changes that led to improvement in your score.

Benefits of using the Microsoft Graph Security API

The following table lists the benefits that different security solutions can access by integrating with the Microsoft Graph Security API.
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AreaBenefits
Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs)
  • Streamlined integration with security operations tools, workflows, and reporting.
  • Reduced deployment and maintenance time and efforts.
  • Automated response to alerts by taking action on threats.
  • Ability to deliver more value to MSSP customers.
SIEM and IT Risk management solutions
  • Smooth integration with Microsoft security solutions and ecosystem partners.
  • Rich alert metadata.
  • Better alert correlation.
Applications
(Threat intelligence, mobile, cloud, IOT, fraud detection, identity & access, risk & compliance, firewall, and so on)
  • Unified threat management, prevention, and risk management across various security solutions.
  • Alerts, actions, and customer threat intelligence exposed through Microsoft Graph.
  • Instant integration with Microsoft Graph-enabled solutions.
  • Gain deep security insights to train other security solutions.

API reference

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Microsoft Easy Connect To Computer

Next steps

How To Enable Easy Connect