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Sounds like he's remoting into the computer in the office from another computer at home (pretty common in IT since you probably have admin tools perfectly configured on that computer and specifically configured for its network config) but with Windows Remote Access it lets the person physically at the computer see everything by default. But i would really hope that someone in IT would be painfully aware of why you shouldn't do sensitive personal browsing on a work computer or a work network
I don't RDP that often to physical devices, but I'm pretty damn sure the default settings for RDP forcefully logs/locks out your user on the physical device and only your lock screen is visible. I have never tried it but I'm also pretty sure it's possible to have two logged in users at once, one using RDP and one using the physical device.
For desktop windows this is not true. A remote sign in will sign out the local user and vice versa
Remote access with continuum/connectwise, TeamViewer, etc gains access to the screen including for control but doesn't normally black out anything locally.
If its in a common area with speakers, anyone can both see and hear anything done on the machine.
I was blanking pretty hard when I wrote that and meant to write RDP while thinking of TeamViewer. Need to post stuff less late at night
I've never heard of anyone in IT regularly remoting to their work computer.
If we remote anywhere it is to a jump host, and those are terminal servers, so no monitor connected.
Yeah this is a pretty weird setup they've got going on.
Like you say they're going to be remoting onto their work computer and then having their remote connection remote onto another remote terminal server.
It's a holographic holodeck all over again.
I think it's kind of an old school way of doing things. My old sys admin boss did that every day up until her retired.