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As I am continuing to integrate ScreenConnect into our own Support and Customer Management Software I have started writing a small C# library that does the interaction with ScreenConnect. To demonstrate what this library can do I've included a demo program that gives you access to your ScreenConnect Sessions with just one click from the Windows System Tray (see Screenshot below). ScreenConnectIntegrationThis Library helps to integrate ScreenConnect into your .NET Projects All interaction is done via the on-board mechanisms - no need to change anything on the server-side! Sample Program ScTray included - shows how to use the library as ScrennConnect GUI for the Systray. Features:* List Session Categories * List Sessions in Category * Join Host Session * Create new Session Limitations:* At the moment only works with Active Directory Authentication * Only tested with v3 ToDo:* Add Support for Forms Authentication * Add Client Capabilities (List and Join as Guest) * Add Support for creating Meetings * Add Support for Downloading Installers * Add Support for Uninstall/Reinstall * Add Support for reading/writing Notes Requirements:* Windows OS * .NET Framework 2.0 Download:* Download Page* Direct Download (contains Source + Demo Program ScTray) 
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Why nobody's thanked you yet I don't know. This is very cool. I'm not doing development so really, SCTray is the useful bit to me, but it's really cool. Thanks for not requiring .NET 6.0 and IE 17 and Java 1.9 My primary work machine is a Server 2003 box and while it's due for replacement it does the job and it's nice to see simple software still run on it.
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I'm glad you can get use out of it.
I like keeping the .NET Version level at the minimum as with most machines it just works out of the box (I can install my tools on nearly any client PC/Server without having to worry much about first upgrading .NET)
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I finally had a chance to look at this today. Nice! And you may be able to support forms auth much easier than you thought. Forms auth credentials can be sent over HTTP basic authentication. It may work as is, or you may just be able to set a property like this: http://msdn.microsoft.co...est.preauthenticate.aspx.. as I'm not sure we send a 401 response otherwise. |
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How to you pass your ScreenConnect URL to the ScTray demo?
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Hi tmgordon,
just create a Shortcut to the ScTray.exe and append the URL as parameter.
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Can you give the exact details on where to append the parameter? I have been trying and I get a INVALID URI. I have already added to local INTRANET. Thanks
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In my Setup I create a new Shortcut to: "C:\Program Files\ScTray\ScTray.exe" http://fw.csa-it.de:8040
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That works. Too bad our server went down and I cant work on it. OIY!!!
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We have been using your excellent util but since the upgrade to the latest version of ScreeConnect it has stopped allowing us to login. Do you have any suggestions or will there be an update to the util?
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I've just checked and can confirm that it seems to no longer work against v4.
I'm on vacation at the moment, but I will look into it.
Maybe it's just a minor thing to adjust.
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As I am terrible with letting a challenge unsolved I just looked into it and did some tweaking and version detecting...
v4 does want some additional parameters that didn't exist in v3, so calls to the server failed.
The library now detects the Server version and sends the additional parameters if it's connecting to a v4 Server.
Please try the new version, I hope it will also work for you.
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Your awesome, it works like a charm.
Thanks for looking into it even though you were on vacation.
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Hi,
Thank you for this great app. it solves the problem of login in web and doing further things. System tray app works perfect. just wanted to know hoe to get the GUI as shown in screenshot.
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Hi reach2rv, The GUI you see in the background is another small .EXE file I made for my collegues and customers. See this Post here for download and description. It basically is just a browser window running in a separate application to have simple one click access to the SC Site without all the overhead of a full browser.
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Hi LaSepp,
I am having trouble authenticating against version 4.1. Before I start digging around, have you had a chance to confirm it works ok in 4.1? If not, I'll probably fire up VS and tinker. I'm able to confirm that authentication is working properly on SC itself through the login page.
Thanks for your work on this, looks promising!
Regards,
Rich
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Hi rjkreider,
I just tried it against my SC 4.1.5817.5099 and it works just fine.
Do you use AD authentication or local authentication?
As both of the SC installations I can use for development are AD authentication I was not able to see if and how local authentication does work...
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Hi LaSepp, I feel like a bonehead. The URL shortcut I was using included "/Host" at the end. After removing that, it works just fine. =)
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I enjoy this tool and I'm going to extend it to include thumbnail previews of desktops and some additional information (active/idle time) when hovering over unattended sessions in the menu. I'll report back progress on this.
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That sounds great!
If you could send me your changes when you're finished I will update the library so everyone can benefit.
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LOVE this utility (it was the last nail in LMI's coffin.
I have 1 issue though, it doesn't work with Google Auth multifactor.
Any way to get it working? How can I help?
Thanks!
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Hi solutionssquad,
At the moment I don't have Google Auth activated for my ScreenConnect.
I would need to analyze how SC does the prompts.
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Originally Posted by: LaSepp  Hi solutionssquad,
At the moment I don't have Google Auth activated for my ScreenConnect.
I would need to analyze how SC does the prompts.
Great! Same would apply to Email authentication. Thanks again for your hard work.
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Hello to everyone using the library,
With ScreenConnect v4.3 the way presence information are sent to the interface has changed.
I've updated the library to be able to understand the new format.
You will get errors when using the old version against SC 4.3
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Small Feature Update:
There are two new functions in SCHostInterface to download Access Session Installers: createAccessSessionMSI and createAccessSessionPKG
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Oddd... when I use the new version, it runs and shows the menus.
But, when I create a new session, or connect to an existing, it shows the download dialogue and then nothing happens.
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Hi solutionssquad,
I've just unpacked and tried it on my test PC - seems to be working.
What version of Windows do you use? What type of authentication is in use in SC and what's your SC version?
Have you tried it on a different machine?
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Using 7 Pro.
Standard user/password.
I hadn't till you suggested it, and same.
It downloads the program, and then nothing happens.
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Hi, that's strange. I've just tried with and without AD Authentication, from two PCs with Windows 7 Pro against 3 different SC instances - I cannot reproduce the issue. Do you have any Proxy Server configuration that might interfere? Edited by user Thursday, May 22, 2014 2:31:40 PM(UTC)
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smells like an SC issue.
We had a corrupted config file while back (knocked out 180 agents) and it acted this way.
I have ran the command to clear the cache, but I'm wondering if there is something somewhere else. :(
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Hmm, the same thing's happening for me, on Windows 8 Enterprise and SC version 4.4.6780.5255 with internal auth. I also noticed that the url being passed to LaunchApplication was missing the host, port, and encryption key. Edit: Also, this url had Elsinore.ScreenConnect.WindowsClient.application, whereas one from SC had Elsinore.ScreenConnect.Client.application. Edited by user Thursday, May 29, 2014 3:37:18 PM(UTC)
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Hi LaSepp
Thanks for your nice tool, really appreciated your work.
I am trying to integrate Screenconnect into my ticketing tool (asp.net + C#), once new session is generated i am supposed to open the windows client for the executive and send a request mail to the end user.
When i try to open window client, the app is crashing due to insufficient parameters like hostname, relayport, hashkey...
Please advice on how to get the parameters from the hosted url with a small example
Thanks in advance.
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Hi dhamofficial,
the SCHostSession has a connect() Method. With that Method you can launch the Client directly.
But as I understand your question this is no option for you.
So I've just added a getLaunchURL() Method, that you can use to get the URL to for example put a link onto a page.
Hope this helps with your case.
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Hi everyone!
As ScreenConnect 5 is just around the corner I've taken the time to look into the SC5 compatibility.
This time the SC folks did big changes to their API (as in: Renamed just about every field name).
The new version now supports SC5 while still being compatible to every older version that was supported before.
Please note:
SC5 Support is still experimental - while I did test all features in the example program and my own software there might still be something not working in other constellations. As always, if you happen to come upon something not working, just post here and I will try to look into it.
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Thank you for the great tool!
I noticed that it doesn't have the ability to transfer sessions. Do you have a code snippet that may point me in the right direction to add transfer functionality to the project?
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Just to make sure, I need to have SC installed on a windows server to use this tool, Am I correct?
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Lasepp, you should look into packaging it as an extension to insulate yourself from future changes. And it'll make installation and configuration easier. Look at our screenconnector extension for reference. |
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Hi leiby,
I've never tried it with a SC Server running on Linux or MacOS, but I don't do anything OS related so should work just as it does on Windows.
Jake, I will look into SC extensions.
What I did like was that it did work out of the box without having to install / change anything server side.
If i understand correctly the extension has to be installed on the server?
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Thanks LaSepp for the reply. Does it work on windows 7? Cause to use the Active Directory option I need to have it installed on a windows server as it says hereor maybe I do something wrong, i'm getting this error  Edited by user Friday, October 24, 2014 7:35:56 AM(UTC)
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Hi LaSepp This didn't work on my system with server version 5 (stable). I looked at code as I got the same error as leiby. I hacked it and put this result: Code:if (serverVersion.StartsWith("ScreenConnect/5"))
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// SC 5 Script Parser Hack
String script = HttpPost(baseUrl + "/Script.ashx", "");
String[] script_lines = script.Split('\r', '\n');
var needle = Array.FindAll(script_lines, a => a.Contains("clp"));
// Results in something like:
// "}},\"context\":{\"clp\":{\"h\":\"support. [truncated]
// String script_stripped = script_lines[0].Remove(0, 5);
String script_stripped = needle[0].Remove(0, 5);
script_stripped = script_stripped.Remove(script_stripped.Length - 1);
String clp = script_stripped.Remove(0, script_stripped.IndexOf("clp") + 5);
Either way, it's working for me now. Maybe you can have a look at the way it parses the version 5 stuff? -Rich
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Ive downloaded this and was trying to see if it worked on 5.1 stable, but i get the same error as the last two guys'
and it seems the author already added the SC5 hack in to the source code, so im still getting a NET framework error.
If anybody knows a fix, i would appreciate it as i have migrated our company from LMI to SC
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I havent been able to test it yet but i believe it was not working because i still had security on Internal and this only supports
Windows Active Directory
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Hi everyone,
sorry that it took so long for a fix.
I used a similar solution to the one rjkreider came up with (fixed first then looked into the forum).
Seems to work in my integration scenario - please inform me if something is still broken.
I know, it's really hacky to get the CLPs like that.
As of the moment I haven't seen any other place to get the encryption key.
My thought of fixing it nicely by integrating a JavaScript engine would just introduce another dependency - and parsing with the JSON library didn't really work out as there are function calls inside the first assignment.
I also thought about writing a two-component integration.
But I do like it much better when the integration does not require any modification to the SC server.
So I guess there will always be some adjusting to newer SC versions every time they change their scripts.
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LaSepp, I cannot visit your website as Symantec blocks it due to reported driveby downloads threats being on it.
Also was wondering if SC integrated security would be supported at some point.
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Hi, Does it say what blacklist the site is on? I couldn't find anything wrong with the site itself. As for integrated security: A customer of ours has a quite old version of SC running with integrated security. The SCTray Utility does work with their installation - so i guess it's worth a try. Edited by user Monday, April 6, 2015 7:19:19 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: LaSepp Hi,
Does it say what blacklist the site is on?
I couldn't find anything wrong with the site itself. Here is the report page on the site. Not sure if it is helpful or not. Edited by user Monday, April 6, 2015 11:56:33 PM(UTC)
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I am also blocked by Symantec's "Norton Safe Web". Same report page as presented by MannyTC. However, VirusTotal's URL Scanner shows this site as clean.
Perhaps appealing the "Drive-By Downloads" classification to Symantec would clear the site from this list...
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Any update on integrated authentication or has anyone had any luck getting it to work? I'm looking at SC cloud to replace LMI and I appear to be stuck. :(
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Looks awesome. I really wish something like that would come from official source.
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I just updated the Library to be able to connect to SC 5.4 in our Production environment.
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