Ammyy Admin Remote Desktop Connection

CTI has licensed "Ammyy Admin" software so we can provide quick, simple, and secure remote assistance to subscribers of CTI Navigator running in Windows. Ammyy Admin does not need to be installed and does not require special privileges. To start a remote support session, CTI customers can download and/or Run the Ammyy Admin application on your Windows computer. Ammyy Admin automatically generates a unique ID for your computer when it runs. Next, CTI customers can contact CTI Tech Support and give them this computer ID.  If you are prompted, accept the remote connection from CTI. (See below for details.) 

This encrypted and password protected connection will allow a CTI technician to temporarily have full control of your computer over the Internet during the troubleshooting session. No installation and no other configuration is required. If you run this application as recommend by CTI, it will be automatically removed from your computer when the application is closed. (Before using this application, see CTI's disclaimer of warranty in note 1 below.) 

To Download and/or Run Ammyy Admin (AA) in Windows: 

1. Open Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Opera browser (not Chrome or Edge).
2. Click this link (to go to http://www.ammyy.com/AA_v3.exe) and run the AA_v3.exe file (or Save this file and scan it with your antivirus program before you Run it).
    
   • Security Alert: If prompted by a Windows Security Alert, check "Private networks..." and click "Allow Access" as shown in the example below:

                 
    

3. Running the AA_v3.exe file will open the Ammyy Admin screen that displays "Your ID" number on the left "Client" pane. (For an example client ID#, see beside the red arrow in the image below.) Click Allow and Unblock if prompted when running this application. The Ammyy Admin screen will look like the following example, but with different ID and IP numbers that are specific to your computer:
   
                  
    
4. After reading and agreeing to CTI's disclaimer of warranty (see note 1 below), CTI customers can contact CTI Tech Support (phone  1-800-533-1031 or email ctiSupport@ctimls.com during normal weekday business hours) and request Remote Assistance. Give CTI "Your ID## ### ###" from the left side of your Ammyy Admin screen (not the "13 431 698" numbers in the example screen above). 
5. When a CTI Tech initiates a connection using the ID# you provide, a new Ammyy Admin window may appear showing that "Operator [ID= ####] is connecting to your PC". (See example image below.) You can leave all boxes checked (or optionally, you can uncheck "Audio chat" and "RDP sessions" because CTI Tech Support does not normally use these functions). If this Accept/Reject screen appears, check "Remember my answer for this operator" at the bottom, and then click the Accept button.  

 

To optimize transmission speed over the Internet, visual effects such as your desktop background, Windows transparency, animation, and special cursor effects, may be temporarily disabled during a remote connection session. These effects may be re-enabled automatically when the remote connection is closed. If not, just re-start your Windows to return to its default settings. 

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How To Close Ammyy Admin Connection

You can control and close an Ammyy Admin remote connection at any time. To temporarily close the connection, click the Stop button on the Ammyy Admin connection screen. This will leave the application open and ready to start another connection (when you click the Start button and tell CTI to re-connect). 

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Note 1: Disclaimer of Warranty. All services are provided under the terms and conditions of CTI's license agreement accompanying CTI Navigator^®. Assistance in any form is provided only as a convenience to licensed users of CTI products. Problems and solutions may depend on the nature of your system environment and other parameters that are unknown to CTI. By requesting assistance, user agrees that actions and solutions described, suggested or implemented by CTI staff are entirely at the user's own risk and are provided without warranties of any kind. Under no circumstances, including negligence, shall CTI or any of its employees be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, punitive, consequential or other damages, loss, cost or liability whatsoever that result from or are related to use of technical support provided by CTI.

Note 2: Security. The Ammyy Admin remote desktop application uses "an advanced hybrid encryption algorithm (AES+RSA)" to ensure privacy during transmissions over the Internet. The encryption mode is always on. When the customized Ammyy Admin application from CTI is run, no one can connect to your computer using this application without your knowledge and permission. In addition, when downloaded from CTI, the customized Ammyy Admin application automatically includes an encrypted password requirement for connection to any computer not licensed by CTI. Any non-CTI connection using CTI's version of Ammyy Admin would require knowledge of both your computer's ID number (or IP address) and this special password. The extra password protection from CTI will remain until you either close Ammyy Admin if you only ran it, delete the Ammyy Admin application file if you saved the file, or you specifically remove the "ANY" computer password protection, or you specifically grant access permission to someone else's computer ID or IP address.

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