Thursday, October 22, 2009

Enhancements in Windows 7 Remote Assistance

Posted on 2:39 AM by Remote Computer Support

Windows 7 Remote Assistance has many enhancements introduced earlier for this feature in Windows Vista. These earlier Remote Assistance improvements were build upon the earlier Windows XP Remote Assistance and included:

• Connectivity betterment with transparent NAT traversal using Teredo and IPv6.
• An enhanced user interface that is easier to launch and use.
• A standalone executable (Msra.exe) can easily be scripted and that accepts command-line arguments.
• Faster startup and connect times and customized bandwidth usage for screen updates.
• Improved security with compulsory password and unification with UAC.
• An open API for unification with peer-to-peer applications and new Offer RA via IM scenario.
• Enhanced Group Policy settings for improved manageability.

Windows 7 adds the following new enhancements to Remote Assistance in addition to these Windows Vista enhancements for Remote Assistance:

• To simplify Remote Assistance user interactions Easy Connect a method introduced in Windows 7 for supplication of Remote Assistance infrastructure.
• For users to solicit or offer help, an enhanced Remote Assistance connection wizard.
• New command-line arguments for the Remote Assistance executable (Msra.exe).

Windows 7 Remote Assistance and Vista deprecate the following features that were
available on Windows XP:

• No support for the MAILTO method of solicited Remote Assistance
• No more support for voice sessions

1 comment:

  1. delete remote assistance delete it from windows 7 for protertor and security win 8\8.1\10 wile not work for me I teied win 8 /8.1/10 with windo help wsndo soluoion was to install win7 64Bit
    so I need io close un used holes.

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