Automating the Remote Desktop Connection

[soumya nayak]

Hi All,

We have 11 physical lab machines. One of the machines is the master machine that is controlling the other 10 slave machines. So we have created one internal in house tool(web application)  which will trigger the selenium test from the master machine - doing RDP into all the 10 slave machines so that the test cases can run in all the 10 machines. All these 10 machines RDP is done from the master machine manually currently.

So i was trying to create a powershell script which i will place in the master machine and this inhouse tool will just invoke that powershell script and do automatic RDP into the 10 machines where i don't have to do manually anything.

So, the Master machine can be in locked state or signed out state, but still my script should work was my requirement.

But powershell script is failing when the machine is in locked or signed out state as the "sendKeys" is not working.

So any other way or tool if anybody can share, that would help me to automate the whole RDP process would be really great.

Regards,

Soumya

[Jesús daniel Menéndez Roselló]

Maybe Autoit is what you're looking for 

So did you explain that you couldn't send keys to virtual machine then you need something to open the windows and click in some position, so if you could send any pictures to explain better 

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[soumya nayak]

Hi Jesus,

i tried a powershell script as below 

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName('System.Windows.Forms')

# Get the ID of the process

$WindowsHandle = Get-Process | Where-Object { $_.MainWindowTitle -Match 'Enter your credentials' } |Select-Object -ExpandProperty Id

# Activate the window

$wshell = New-Object -ComObject wscript.shell;

$wshell.AppActivate($WindowsHandle) | Out-Null

mstsc /v:"<VM Name>" /admin

Start-Sleep -s 20

[System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait('<VM Password>')

Start-Sleep -s 15

[System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait("{ENTER}")

Start-Sleep -s 15

[System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait("{ENTER}")

The above script works only when the windows is in active state but the script is failing in windows locked or signed out state. So i am looking for how to automate the RDP process from a machine which is in locked or signed out state.

Regards,

Soumya

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