Net Control 2 User Guide.

Tools and Features

USER GUIDE.
TOOLS AND FEATURES

Revision 2.0
(September 20, 2008)

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Table of Contents
Remote Desktop tools.........................................................................................................................4
Broadcast Desktop tools......................................................................................................................8
Restrictions........................................................................................................................................10
General principles..........................................................................................................................11
Internet Access profiles..................................................................................................................12
Policies...........................................................................................................................................16
Allowed Programs tool (Program Restrictions).............................................................................17
Controlling features..........................................................................................................................22
Shutdown manager........................................................................................................................23
Programs Manager.........................................................................................................................23
File Management...........................................................................................................................26
Disk Management..........................................................................................................................28
Sharing manager............................................................................................................................29
Monitoring........................................................................................................................................31
Events Watcher..............................................................................................................................31
Events Logger .............................................................................................................................32
Messaging.........................................................................................................................................33
Speech features..............................................................................................................................34
Chats...................................................................................................................................................35
User Help Requests........................................................................................................................35
Desktop Recorder ............................................................................................................................37

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Remote Desktop tools.

Features:
– control desktop of selected remote computer, using keyboard and
mouse;
– control several user computers at the same time. Instructor can
switch Remote Desktop between controlled computers manually
or automatically after some time interval.
– Instructor can save received information to Desktop Recorder Tool file
format for further replay using Desktop Player Tool.
– Instructor can make annotations for the user of remote computer, drawing
and typing on his desktop
–

Additional options:
– “View-Only” mode;
– “Full-screen” and “Stretched” modes;
– During Remote Desktop session, Instructor can block keyboard and mouse
of remote computer;
– Instructor can send Ctrl+Alt+Del system sequence to user computers (not
implemented under Windows Vista);
– Instructor can save or print snapshots from received image.

To start Remote Desktop session:

– select one or several user computers;
– on “Desktop” page of Net Control 2 toolbar and “Remote Desktop”
panel:

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click button:
– “Control” - to open separate control window for each user computer;
– “View” - to open separate control window for each user computer, and
“View-only” mode will be enabled by default.
– “Multi” - to open single window for all selected computers. All actions of
Instructor will be sent either to all selected computers at the same time,
or just to currently selected computer only (depending chosen Remote
Desktop Viewer mode).
– To close Remote Desktop sessions on local and remote computers click
“Remote Desktop – Close Viewers” buttons.

In addition, you can start Remote Desktop sessions using menu commands
Tools → Remote Desktop.

Video Hook Driver and DirectDraw capabilities.

By default, Net Control 2 and Remote Desktop features uses acceleration of
special Net Control 2 Video Hook Driver, which, being used, significantly
improves accuracy and performance of Remote Desktop engine.
Net Control 2 will load this driver automatically on Remote Desktop session
startup. Please note, when Net Control 2 Video Hook Driver is active, Windows
automatically turns off DirectDraw acceleration capabilities, that may result the
slowdown of performance of multimedia software and games.
After closing Remote Desktop session, Video Hook Driver will not be unloaded
automatically. To unload the driver immediately, just change Desktop
resolution to any supported and back to the current one.

Remote Desktop viewer:

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View-only mode – enables view-only mode. All activity of user on remote

computer will be displayed in Remote Desktop Viewer, but activity of Instructor
will not be sent to user computer.

Topmost – when topmost mode is enabled, Remote Desktop window will be

placed on the top of all standard (“non-topmost”) windows;

Panning – when enabled, Remote Desktop viewer will automatically scroll the
content of Remote Desktop window, when Inctuctor moves the cursor over the
window;

Cursor – when enabled, Remote Desktop will display location of cursor on

remote computer.

Drawer – when enabled, Drawer mode will be enabled. For more information
please refer to the chapter below.

Fullscreen – when enabled, Remote Desktop window will be expanded to the

full-screen.

Stretched – when enabled, the content of Remote Desktop will be

automatically resized to fit the window.

Lock – locks keyboard and mouse of remote computer;

Unlock – unlocks keyboard and mouse of remote computer;

Ctrl-Alt-Del – emulates pressing of system combination Ctrl+Alt+Delete on

remote computer. This feature temporarily not supported under Windows Vista.

To top-left – moves currently active window on remote computer to the

top-left corner of the screen. Simplifies localization of current window, when
several computers controlled simultaneously.

Previous – allowed in “Multi-desktop” mode only: activates previous computer

in the list of Remote Desktop connections.

Next – allowed in “Multi-desktop” mode only: activates next computer in the

list of Remote Desktop connections.

Scan – allowed in “Multi-desktop” mode only: enables “Scanning” mode.

Remote Desktop will activate next computer in the list of Remote Desktop
connections after some pre-defined time interval (3 seconds by default). An
interval may be changed through menu Mode – Scan.

Thumbnails – display snapshots of computers in Remote Desktop list.

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Current – effective when several computers controlled simultaneously. All

actions made by Instructor in Remote Desktop, will be applied only to the
currently selected (active) computer. Otherwise, actions will be applied to all
computers in Remote Desktop connections list.

Record – saves information, received during Remote Desktop session to

Desktop Recorder file, which later may be replayed using Desktop Viewer.

In addition, using menu commands:

File – Save Snapshot As...
and File – Print Snapshot As... Instructor can make snapshots and save
them as Windows Bitmap file or output to printing device.

Drawer Mode.
Instructor can use Drawer mode to make graphic and text annotations on
remote user's Desktop. This mode is available only when user is logged on
remote computer.

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After switching to Drawer Mode, you can draw directly in Remote Desktop
window, just press left mouse button and move the mouse. Pressing
keyboard buttons you can type some text.
Within Drawer Mode, you can use F2, F3 and F4 keys to change the color
and F5…F8 keys to change the width of pen.

Broadcast Desktop tools.

Broadcast Desktop tool provides ability to demonstrate image of Desktop

of Instructor's computer on selected User computers. The performance of
Broadcast Desktop not depends on number of computers where the image
will be demonstrated.

To start Broadcast Desktop session:

● select user computers;
● on “Desktop” toolbar page, in “Broadcast Desktop” group, click
“Broadcast” button.

During Broadcast Desktop session, Instructor can use Broadcast

Desktop toolbar to pause or to stop the session:

Broadcast Desktop mode also can be closed using Close

Broadcast Desktop Mode button.

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During standard Broadcast Desktop session, the keyboard and

mouse of remote users remains active, that, for example, lets
user possibility to close Broadcast Desktop Viewer window. To
restrict user activity, Instructor can use special “Restricted”
mode:

In this case, Net Control 2 will block the keyboard and mouse of computers
where Broadcast Desktop session will be displayed, and unblock it once the
session will be closed.

During Broadcast Desktop session, the source of broadcast (initially,

Instructor's display) may be changed, that allows, for example, to broadcast
Desktop of any computer in the network to all computers where the
Broadcast Desktop session (viewer) is displayed.
To broadcast Desktop of any user in the network:
– select computers;
– open standard Broadcast Desktop mode. This will start Broadcast
Desktop session on user computers and will display Broadcast
Desktop Viewer window on each selected user computer.
– Select user computer, which should become new BD source;
– click toolbar button “User” (Broadcast User's Desktop).
–

Instructor, can also run Broadcast Desktop Viewer on his computer to watch
information sent from user computer. To open Broadcast Desktop
Viewer on Instructor's computer, click “Run Broadcast Desktop
Viewer” button on the toolbar:

To close Broacast Desktop Viewers and close Broadcast Desktop session:

– select computers;
– click toolbar command “Close Broadcast Desktop Mode”:

Notes:
1. Broadcast Desktop mode, started on Instructor's computer, will
automatically activate Net Control 2 Video Hook Driver. For more
information regarding Video Hook Driver and DirectDraw capabilities,
please refer to the chapter above.
2. Broadcast mode is available only in networks, where UDP protocol and
UDP broadcast mode supported. Particularly, this mode is not
supported in Internet.
3. In most cases Broadcast Desktop session is limited by the bounds of

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single VLAN.
4. Only one Broadcast Desktop session may be run in the network, i.e. if
for example all classrooms in the school are joined to one network
(VLAN), Broadcast Desktop session started in the first classroom, will
be visible in all other classrooms.
To limit the scope of Broadcast Desktop by the bounds of some group
of computers (e.g. Classroom), you need to assign to all computers in
this group unique and the same port number for Broadcast Desktop:
1. on Instructor's computer:
● open menu command → Options → Client Options;
● on “Connections” tab, enter some port number in
“Broadcast Desktop” port field. For port numbers we
recommend to use even values, beginning 20000 and above
2. On User computers:
● select user computers;
● apply menu command → Options → Remote Computer
Options;
● set up all necessary parameters (all options, including
passwords, are reset to defaults);
● on “Connection Options” tab, specify the same Broadcast
Desktop port, as specified on user computers; click OK
button;
Changes will be applied after restart of Broadcast Desktop
service.

Restrictions

Features:
Internet Access – restrict access of users to web-resources or network
services, web-content filtering;
Policies – restrict access to system settings and folders;

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Allowed Programs – restrict execution of programs and applications;

General principles

To apply restrictions to user computers:

– select user computers;
– on “Control/Monitor” tab, under “Restrictions” group, click tool button.
– In the list of available profiles:

– select the profile, create a new one, or edit existing profile;

– click “Send” button to install restriction profile on selected user computers.

“Internet Access” and “Policies” profiles are installed in System Registry

and will be in effect after restart of user computer.
By default Policies are installed for currently logged in user of remote
computer, if the profile should be applied to all users of a computer, before
applying, please check “Apply to all users” check box.

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By default “Allowed Programs” profile will be in effect until restart of user

computer. If the profile should remain active after restart of user computer,
before sending the profile, please check “Autoload at startup” check box.

Internet Access profiles.

Default installation of Net Control 2 includes the following profiles and

examples:
Disable Internet Access – forbids access to Internet services.
Enable Full Access – removes all Internet restrictions and enables full access
Disable www.mydomain.com site – an example, which disables access to
www.mydomain.com web-site.
Enable www.mydomain.com web-site only – en example, enables access
to www.mydomain.com web-site only.
Internet Access Only – enables access to Internet services only. This profile
works only when Internet Control Engine is installed in “Protocol Layer” mode
(details please see below).
Internet Access with Adult content filtering only – visited web-sites will
be checked for “adult” content, and forbidden content will be blocked.

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Internet Control Engine: two modes (“Protocol Layer” and “Internet

Explorer plug-in”)

Internet Control Engine may be installed as “Internet Explorer plug-in” or

“Protocol layer”. First mode is used by default.

Internet Explorer plug-in mode provides better compatibility with network

configurations, drivers and software, provides several special features: custom
“Access denied” page, which displayed, when access to web-site is blocked,
web-site filtering by domain name mask etc. But in this case, restrictions will
be effective in Internet Explorer browser only.

Protocol Layer mode provides effective access restriction in all programs,

including alternative browsers, like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera etc.
Allows blocking network services by their port number (includes elements of
Firewall protection). But in several cases may conflict with third-party software,
several antiviruses, which ses the same technique of Internet access control.

The mode of Control Engine may be changed through Net Control 2 User
configuration dialog:
– select user computers;
– click menu command → Options → Remote Computer Options;
– set up all necessary settings (settings are reset to defaults);

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– on “Components” tab, select appropriate installation mode and click OK.

How to create or edit profile.

To modify the profile, in “Choose profile” dialog, select it and click “Edit
profile” button. To create new profile, click “New profile” button.

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Internet Access profile consists in rules, which may be added, deleted or

modified. Currently Net Control 2 supports the following rules:
Disable World-Wide-Web – (Internet Explorer Plug-in mode only) – forbid
access to all Internet services.

Block Web-site – blocks a web-site, by its domain name. Please note,

http://www.domain.name, http://domain.name, http://forum.domain.name –
are different web-sites, to forbid access to all these web-sites, please use
mask: *domain.name
Enable Web-site – enables access to web-site. As previously described,
please take into account subdomain names.

Please note! The profile cannot include both “blocked” and “enabled”
web-sites. Only last verb - “enable” or “disable” will be applied to all
specified web-sites.

Disable web-site, containing keyword or a sentence – enables content

filtering on visited web-sites. Will verify incoming information on presence of
forbidden keywords, if any keyword will be found, an access to web-site will be
automatically blocked.

Disable adult content – enables “adult” content filtering. Includes specific

keywords for “adult” content.

“Protocol Layer” mode rules. Are not effective in default “Internet Explorer
plugin” mode:
Disable all network services – effective in “Protocol Layer” mode only.
Disables all not specified in the profile ports/services.

Enable service or network port – effective in “Protocol Layer” mode only.

Enables access to specified service or network port. Should be used together
with “Disable all network services” rule.

Disable service or network port – effective in “Protocol Layer” mode only.

Disable access to specified service or network port.

Enable content filtering for network service – effective in “Protocol

Layer” mode only. Enables content filtering for incoming data of specified
service.

Enable content filtering for all network services – effective in “Protocol

Layer” mode only. Enables content filtering on all network services.

How to schedule applying Internet Access profiles? More information in

“Net Control 2 Advanced Usage” guide.

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Policies

Understanding “Policies”.

Policies are hidden system settings, which enables or restricts access to

system settings or services. Policies are managed by Windows internally, they
are depends on version of operating system and generally requires restart of
computer or Explorer shell to be applied. By default Windows applies Policies to
currently logged on user only. Windows and its components uses more than
2000 different policies, Net Control 2 implements only most popular.

Default profiles:

Disable Uninstall Tools – example: disables access to “Add/Remove

programs” applet of Control Panel.
Guest mode – disables access to most sensitive system settings and folders.
Master mode – disable all restrictions. Enables normal access to system
settings and folders.

By default, sent profile will be applied to currently logged on user only. If the
profile should be applied to all users, before sending, please check “Apply to
all users” check box.

Many policies require restart of Windows Shell (Explorer) to be applied.

Tip! In many cases, profile may be activated immediately without restart of

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computer, if you'll terminate “explorer.exe” program remotely, using Programs

Manager and run it remotely again.

Allowed Programs tool (Program Restrictions).

Using Allowed Programs tool, you can enable or disable access

of remote users to programs and applications. Allowed Programs profile by
default is effective until restart of remote computer. To make profile effective
after restart, before sending, check “Autoload at startup” check box.

Default installation of Net Control 2 includes two profiles:

Enable all programs, which completely resets the restriction; and
Disable MS Word (example), which demonstrates, how to disable Microsoft
Word program.

To prepare your own Allowed Programs profile, in “Choose profile” dialog

window, click “New profile” button.

In profile editor, choose one of the provided restriction modes:

– Allow execution of following programs only – all not specified
programs will be automatically disabled.
– Do not execute listed programs – only specified in the list below
programs will be disabled.
– Disable protection – resets all restrictions.

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In the list of programs, you need to specify module names of applications,

which will be enabled or disabled.

How to determine module name of the application?

Click System's Start button, “All programs” and find a shortcut for the
application, which should be added to the list. Right click the shortcut. Open
shortcut's properties. In Properties window, “Target” field will contain full path
for the program. In the profile, should be specified a file name without
path only:

Example. How to disable Standard Windows programs Paint and

Calculator:

1. In Allowed Programs profiles list, click New Profile button to create new
profile.

2. Select necessary restriction mode (“Do not execute listed programs”) and
click Add button, to add first program:

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3. Find module name for Calculator and add it to the profile:

Open properties of program's shortcut in Start menu:

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Enter file name of Calculator (without path) to the Add program dialog:

Add Windows Paint to the list in the same manner:

4. Save the profile:

5. Select saved profile from the list.

6. Set “Autoload at startup” option if profile should be active after restart of computer.
7. Send it to users:

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How to schedule applying Allowed Programs profiles? More information in

“Net Control 2 Advanced Usage” guide.

Controlling features

Features:
– remote power management: restart, shut down computers remotely, log off
users, switch computer to hibernate or stand-by modes, turn on or wake up
computers.
– Start and terminate programs, applications and system services remotely.
– File management: copy, rename, delete, find and execute files remotely.
– Disk management: start disk management operations remotely: check for
errors, defragment, manage Recycle Bin etc.
– Sharing: control sharing of network resources (folders and printers)
remotely.

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Shutdown manager

To apply shutdown management operation:

– select user computers;
– click “Shutdown” button on “Control” toolbar
– in Shutdown Manager, select operation and click Yes button.
– If “Forced” option is set, operation will be applied in “forced” style - without
any prompts on remote side to save documents, close programs etc.

Programs Manager.

To start or terminate program, application or system service

remotely:
– select user computers;
– click “Programs” button on “Control” toolbar;
– in “Programs Manager”...

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“End program” tab:

select process from the list and click “End program” to terminate the program.
Before termination, you can also disable the program, clicking “Disable
program” button. In this case, remote user will not be able to start the
program again, until remote computer will be restarted or “Enable all
programs” profile of Allowed programs tool will be sent to user computer. More
about “Allowed programs” tool please read above.

When “Applications only” option is set, only applications (programs, which have
visible windows) will be listed.

“Run from Programs menu” and “Run from Desktop” tabs contains the
list of shortcuts in All programs menu of Start menu and Desktop shortcuts
respectively.

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“Command prompt” tab

allows to start program, document or URL remotely using analog of command

prompt.
“Execute DOS command” feature provides the way to execute command
through Command Prompt window.

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On “Services” tab, Net Control 2 will display system services, installed on

user computer. You can start, stop or pause the service remotely:

File Management

Using File Manager you can perform the following operations remotely:
– copy files to and from user computers;
– rename and delete files on user and local computers;
– run programs and documents locally and remotely;
– search folders of remote computer for files;
– create new folders;
– change file attributes;
– send content of folder and automatically run selected file from this folder.

Virtual drive.

By default and for security reasons, Net Control 2 performs file operations on

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virtual (“NC2:”) drive only. Physically this drive is attached to “NC2 Common
Files” folder on All Users' Desktop of remote computer, so copying file to NC2:
drive, result placing the file to NC2 Common Files folder of user computer.

This behavior depends on “File operations” permission of user computer:

– when File Operations permission is disabled (not checked), all file operations
will be disabled;
– when “On the specified folder only” option is checked, file operations are
possible only for virtual NC2: drive. When this option is not set (not
checked), file operations are possible on all drives and folders.
– To view the state of permission, click Net Control 2 icon in the System
tray of remote computer, then click “Configure” menu command.
Permissions are specified on “Security” tab of configuration dialog.
– To set up the permission remotely:
– select user computers;
– click menu command N → Options → Remote Computer Options;
– set up all necessary parameters (all settings are reset to defaults);
– on “Security” tab, set up permissions.
– Click OK button.

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Disk Management

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Using Disk Manager, you can start several disk management operations
remotely:
– select user computers;
– click “Disk operations” button on “Control” toolbar;
– in Disk Operations dialog, select drives on the left pane;
– click operation:
– “Check disks” - to start system check disk (or Scandisk) program on
remote side; the program will try to correct errors automatically if
“Correct errors automatically” option is enabled;
– Defragment disks – starts standard Defrag program for defragmenting
selected drives of remote computer;
– Delete temporary files – deletes all files in system “Temporary files”
folder;
– Empty Recycle Bin – empties Recycle Bin on user computer.

Sharing manager

Sharing management provides simple way to manage sharing of network

resources remotely. To use sharing management features, the appropriate
system services should be enabled (started) on user computer (sharing is
enabled), and Net Control 2 permissions of remote computer should allow
extended remote file management (on all folders). By default this permission is
turned off for security reasons. For more information regarding setting file
management permissions, please refer to “File Manager” chapter above.

To use Sharing manager:

– select user computer (this feature cannot be applied to several computers
at a time);

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– click “Sharing Manager” button on “Control” toolbar.

– In Sharing Manager:

To create new shared folder or printer:

– click “Create New” button;
– specify some network name (name of shared resource);
– specify Description (optional);
– specify local path to the folder or device;
– if profile will be applied under Windows 95/98/ME, in “Password” fields you
can set up necessary access passwords;
– in “Access” fields, choose access permissions;
– choose type of device – disk device (folder) or printer;
– click “Apply changes” to insert new device to the sharing profile;
– click “Send changes” to send the profile to user computer.

To delete shared resource:

– select it in the list of shared devices;
– click “Delete” button;
– when all changes will be made, click “Send changes” button to apply
changes on remote computer.

To modify properties of shared resource:

– select a resource from the list of shared devices;
– change properties of shared resource;
– click “Apply changes” to apply changes to the profile;
– click “Send changes” to send the profile to user computer.

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Monitoring

Features:
– on-line monitoring various events of remote computers:
– program start/stop events;
– program switching/activation events;
– web-site browsing requests (passing URL to the browser);
– system events: attaching new devices, date/time events, user
logon/logoff etc.
– off-line (autonomous) monitoring and logging events, logs management.

Events Watcher

To watch events on-line:

– select computers;
– click “Watcher” (“Events Watcher”) button in “Monitoring” group of
“Control/Monitor” toolbar.

in Events Watcher window:

– click “End program” button to close currently selected program;

– click “Save as CSV” button to save content of the log in CSV file format,

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which is supported by Microsoft Excel and other spreadsheet software;

– click options in “Watch Events” group to change the type of events, watched
by the tool.

Events Logger

Events Logger feature, being enabled, logs specified above events in off-line
mode (active Net Control 2 connection is not required). Later this log may be
requested at any moment by administrator.

To enable Events logging:

– select user computers;
– click “Logger” (“Events Logger”) button of “Monitoring” group of
“Control/Monitor” toolbar.

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In Events Logger window:

– set (check) “Enable Events Logger” option, to enable the feature;
– optionally below you can set up the path to the log file, where Net Control 2
will store events information. %WINDIR% refers to home Windows
directory, %TEMP% - temporary files folder for System Service user
account, %SYSDIR% - Windows System directory.
– If “Encode log file” option is set, Net Control 2 will encode the file, to
complicate reading;
– by default Net Control 2 will clear content of log file each week, you can
change this behavior in “Clear log file” field;
– set up event types, which should be tracked.
– If any changes were made, click “Send changes” button to apply them.

To receive log file from remote computer, just click “Receive log” button and
select event types, which should be included in the resulting log.

Messaging

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Features:
– display full-screen text messages on user computers;
– display text message in dialog windows remotely;
– display images (in full-screen window);
– display images with text annotations;
– play audio samples remotely;
– change sound volume remotely;
– hide full-screen message windows remotely.

To send any of the specified messages:

– select user computers;
– click “Messages” button on “Messaging” toolbar.

Specify necessary parameters of message (text, image or sound file etc.) and
click appropriate “Send” button. All parameters are optional.

Speech features.

Speech manager provides simple way of remote speeching between computers

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in one or both directions:

– select user computers;
– click “Speech Manager: Megaphone Mode” to start speech session with
selected computers. By default the sound is sent from Instructor side to
Users (in one direction)
– alternatively, click “Speech Manager: Telephone Mode” to start speech
session with selected computers. By default the sound is sent in both
directions between selected computers.

In Speech Manager you can select sound direction: to, from user computer,
both directions, as also adjust recording and playback volumes.

To close speech sessions with all users, just close “Speech Manager” window;
to close one session, select it and click “Close session” button of Speech
Manager toolbar.

Chats

Net Control 2 includes several chat features:

Chat, initiated by Administrator:

to initiate chatting with remote users:
– select user computers;
– on “Messaging” tab, click “Chat” button.
– Net Control 2 will start new chat session and open chat windows on user

To close chat session, just close session tab or Chat window.

User Help Requests.

By default, any user can send Help request to any connected Administrator. To
initiate chat with Administrator, click Net Control 2 icon in the System Tray,
from the appeared menu click “Send Help Request to Administrator”:

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Select one or several items from the list of IP addresses/names of connected

administrators, add optional message and click OK.

On Administrator computer Net Control 2 will display a request:

Administrator can accept or decline request, as also he can create a rule to

disable or enable all future help requests. When “Answer automatically all
future help requests. Current answer will be used” option is enabled, current
answer will be applied to all future help requests. To change this mode, click
→ Options → Client Options, on “Interface” tab, modify settings of “Help
requests” group:

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Desktop Recorder

Features:
● record actions on Instructor's desktop;
● add audio annotations;
● send and play records on user computers at any moment.

To create a record, click “Record” button in “Desktop Recorder” group of

“Teaching tools” toolbar. Desktop Recorder will prompt to point location of
the file, where the record will be created.

To stop recording, click “Stop Record” button in the System Tray.

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To play a record, click “Play” button on “Desktop Recorder” toolbar and

specify the file, which should be played.

To play file on user computer, when the file is also located on remote computer,
click “Play Rmt” (Play record on remote computer) button, specify file
location and click OK.

To send file and play it on user computers:

– select user computers;
– click “Send&Play” button (“Send Record & Play”), specify the file, which
will be sent and played on user computers.

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