So my company has gone remote-first permanently, and as part of this policy, we are essentially losing our physical offices. What I have been doing was connecting to the VPN on my home desktop and then remoting into my desktop that was sitting in my physical office, which is connected to the office network. However, because of the loss of the physical offices, I now have the option of bringing my work desktop home...which is all fine and dandy, but I don't actually want to use my work desktop...I don't have enough room nor do I want to deal with KVM switches, etc. So I want to just have it squirreled away in some dark corner (similar to what it's been doing at my company's office for the past year). So I plan on continuing to remote into it from my home desktop because I have a nice setup with a standing desk and two monitors and all the fixins...however, from what I have heard, I may have issues with these steps:
Anybody have any neat ideas? I'm really looking for a short term solution possibly, because I also have a work laptop, but my job does such a poor job with providing images for clean installs, that it was straight from Dell and I have to do all kinds of set up (like setting up a Hyper-V VM just to have a Windows install on that to get it on the right domain because of reasons, reasons, blah blah).
It's quite fascinating how hard my job is making it for me to actually get work done because of this office move.
- Plug work desktop in, connect to VPN
- Connect to VPN on home desktop
- RDP into work desktop, which will start a new session, in which case, I will drop off the VPN that I connected to in step 1
- Try to connect onto VPN on work desktop, which will drop me off the RDP session.
Anybody have any neat ideas? I'm really looking for a short term solution possibly, because I also have a work laptop, but my job does such a poor job with providing images for clean installs, that it was straight from Dell and I have to do all kinds of set up (like setting up a Hyper-V VM just to have a Windows install on that to get it on the right domain because of reasons, reasons, blah blah).
It's quite fascinating how hard my job is making it for me to actually get work done because of this office move.