Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the process of remotely accessing a first device may include: connecting the first device to an authentication server; generating a one time code; transferring the one time code to a second device; connecting the second device to the authentication server; sending the one time code from the second device to the authentication server; confirming the one time code with the authentication server; modifying the first device to exclusively use only one credential provider to authenticate a user; communicating approval for authentication of the user from the authentication server to the first device when the one time code is confirmed with the authentication server; and singing the user into the first device after the approval for authentication of the user is communicated to the first device.

Abstract: Embodiments of techniques and systems f associated with reserving native computing devices are described. In some embodiments, an apparatus may receive an indicator of a native computing device to be reserved for a computing client and an indicator of an execution image to be written to the native computing device. The native computing device, the computing client and the apparatus may be remotely disposed from each other. The apparatus may cause a first communication path to be established to enable the execution image to be written to the native computing device on behalf of the computing client. On completion of the writing of the execution image to the native computing device, the apparatus may cause a second communication path to be established for the native computing device to be available for computational use by the computing client. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.