u/Abject-Effect-7965

I'm at 15yrs out of college and programmed many PLC / HMI platforms. Field service for years, and many commissionings across several industries.

One thing I've always felt behind in is the IT/OT side. I'm familiar with virtualized (HMI server VMs on servers with client stations, PLC development software on a VM). Set up OPC communication. One time I configured some kind of eagle router thing where the PLC has a different IP range than it's engineering station.

I've come across some people who seem to inherently navigate admin settings, domain controllers, firewall rules. They seem to just know what to click or configure. That's never been the case for me. Whenever I've looked into these subjects I'm kind of bored and don't retain much.

Anyone else skating by in this field while kinda faking they know how all the networking is set up? It also doesn't help I've never really been the one responsible for the networks outside of the plant floor control network.

I'm in a spot where I'll have two commissionings at once going on. The one is my own "creation" and I have to be somewhere else when it should be started up. I'd like to be able to access it remotely, with an instrument tech as my hands on site.

Is there a device, maybe one you have to pay a subscription involving a sim card, that would connect to a windows PC, and allow VNC access into it, or remotely connect somehow?

This is running standard Windows 11, so don't believe RDP is supported. TIA Portal and WinCC Unified are on this PC. So it's the engineering station, as well as the HMI station.