{"id":10432,"date":"2020-03-17T13:32:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T17:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/?page_id=10432"},"modified":"2020-03-17T16:36:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T20:36:49","slug":"remote-desktop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/support\/network\/remote\/remote-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"info notice\"><strong>Please note:<\/strong> It is required to connect to\u00a0BU&#8217;s 2FA VPN for any Remote Desktop connections. To learn how: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/support\/network\/remote\/vpn\/\">https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/support\/network\/remote\/vpn\/<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Remote Desktop is a program or an operating system feature that allows you to connect to your BU work computer from another location (off-campus or at home). It will allow you to see the computer&#8217;s desktop and interact with it as if are in front of it.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, remote desktop is <strong>not possible if you are trying to remote into a Mac computer<\/strong> regardless if your off-campus\/home computer is Windows or Mac.<\/p>\n<p>For example, these are the only two possible remote desktop methods (as shown on the image below):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/support\/network\/remote\/remote-desktop\/remote-desktop-for-windows\/\">Windows computer remote into a Windows computer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/support\/network\/remote\/remote-desktop\/remote-desktop-for-mac-osx\/\">Mac computer remote into a Windows computer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/it\/files\/2020\/03\/remoteinfograph.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/it\/files\/2020\/03\/remoteinfograph-636x584.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"414\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/files\/2020\/03\/remoteinfograph-636x584.png 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/files\/2020\/03\/remoteinfograph-768x706.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/files\/2020\/03\/remoteinfograph-1024x941.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/files\/2020\/03\/remoteinfograph.png 1098w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please note: It is required to connect to\u00a0BU&#8217;s 2FA VPN for any Remote Desktop connections. To learn how: https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/support\/network\/remote\/vpn\/ Remote Desktop is a program or an operating system feature that allows you to connect to your BU work computer from another location (off-campus or at home). It will allow you to see the computer&#8217;s desktop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15263,"featured_media":0,"parent":157,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10432"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10438,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10432\/revisions\/10438"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}