Application Sharing greyed out with RDC

[Guest]

We're on a large university campus and use Windows Messenger 5.1 and Remote
Desktop Connection extensively, especially with a telecommuting colleague.
But I've found that although application sharing works when I'm sitting at my
office PC, the "Start Application Sharing..." menu item is greyed out if I'm
interacting with it remotely over RDC. Some articles have suggested mods to
the group security policy but we haven't found one that works. Also, Google
and Google groups don't seem to have any help. Any help will be MUCH
appreciated.

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings David,

I believe this is by design due to the way Application Sharing captures the screen. Even if
you start Netmeeting manually (which is where this component comes from), it grays it out
there too.

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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger
Associate Expert
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Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
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[Guest]

Hi Jonathan,

I'd have preferred a different answer but thanks for the information and
quick reply.

David

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Hi David,

I've tried some other "non-supported" scenarios where I've seen the same grayed out effect.
More than likely the code behind the capturing hasn't changed much (not at all?) since
Netmeeting first was released and just doesn't work in these situations.

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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.

 

[Guest]

Maybe Vista will be the answer to all our problems. Yeah, right.

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Hi,

Actually that was the "unsupported" scenario I was talking about I'm afraid. To be honest
though, I haven't tried it recently to see if they've done anything about this problem.

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Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.