Queries Greyed out Remote Control

Hello there
We have migrated from a Landesk platform to System center, and our admin team is used to seeing a main device view where they remotely control machines from. I have created the query I want but the remote control options are greyed out. I have been playing
with all types of queries and I can get some to work, but If I add a join to another query it just brakes it.. This is basically on the back of the below link.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/a0e22223-0802-46a0-a1b7-048773620cca/sccm-2012-remote-control-from-queries?forum=configmanagergeneral
I would be grateful if you could provide me with any information, surrounding this topic area or if it is being reviewed in future releases.
Thanks

I have pretty much been doing that torsten.... but I just can not get the desired query to work..
The other annoying thing, is when I have a query that allows remote control.. I link it to a device collection.. and it doesnt display all the fields in the query..
Anyone else having these difficulties?
Are we going to see any improvements in this area going forward?

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