Unattended access is a time saving feature when it comes to managing remote computers without the client being present at their desktop. With a single FixMe.IT license, you can easily access and manage up to 150 workstations by installing the Unattended Client on each machine. Here’s a video tutorial describing the two ways to do that.
But what if you want to install the FixMe.IT Unattended Client on multiple remote computers at once rather than doing it manually on each individual machine?
Here’s a quick workaround that will make it happen:
- Open the FixMe.IT Expert application and go to My Account.
- Download the Unattended Access Setup file to a folder of your choice (we’ll use “temp” folder and three virtual Windows machines as an example).
- Run the following command line in the Windows Command Prompt: psexec \\win2012g1, win2012g2, win2012g3 -i -s -c -v -h -w c:\windows\temp “c:\tmp\FixMeit Unattended Access Setup.exe”, where win2012g1, win2012g2 and win2013 are the names or ip addresses of the computers, -i -s -c- -v -h -w are the psexec command parameters, and “c:\tmp\FixMeit Unattended Access Setup.exe” is the file location on your local machine. It is not required to store the file in a shared location, as it will be copied to all remote machines during the command execution.
- At this point, the machines should all be added to your Unattended Client list. Verify that this is the case.
The psexec command will run only in case all of the computers you want to install the Unattended Client on have direct or proxy Internet connection without authorization. Note that if the machines are not on a domain, you should probably specify additional parameters.
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