Where do I find Offer Remote Assistance on Server 2012 Essentials

Where the heck do I find the Offer Remote Assistance capability in Server 2012 R2 Essentials? (I'm guessing this a just plain Server 2012 thing, but in my case I'm specifically using Server 2012 R2 Essentials.)
From the server console, I want to be able to offer remote assistance to workstations joined to the Essentials domain.
I have the Remote Assistance Feature installed on the server, and I have the group policy configured and active for workstations to allow Remote Assistance. I just cannot find in the Server 2012 user interface (which is of course based on the Windows
8 interface which I have not used yet), where the Remote Assistance option is.
In Windows 7, and Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, which is of course built on top of Windows 2008, I could click Start, then All Programs, then Maintenance, and "Windows Remote Assistance" was a shortcut there.
In Server 2012 R2 Essentials I can't find it anywhere. Even when I display the full Start "Menu" list on the new Start screen I can't find it. "Remote Assistance" does not show up as an option when I try to search for it in
the Start screen search box.
Thank you.

Thanks everyone. I finally found it, but it's far less than obvious in any way. But first to address some of the other comments...
That's funny. The only way I've been able to find the tool on Win7 or Win8 has been to type "remote assistance" at the start menu, and then select the appropriate program.
I just rechecked 3 different Windows 7 PCs and both of my older Small Business Server 2011 Essentials servers (which of course are based on Server 2008). On all of them in the Start Menu, I can click Start, then All Programs, then I have a folder called
"Maintenance", then inside of that I have a "Windows Remote Assistance" shortcut along with several other shortcuts. Of course I know the interface changed in Windows 8 and Server 2012, but it seems odd they'd remove access to the tool
entirely without any way to get to it.
I just did this on my Windows Server 2012 Essentials, and it offered me the right selection, but then when I clicked that I got the message "Windows cannot find 'C:\Windows\system32\msra.exe'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again."
Funny that it obviously had the shortcut installed, but not the underlying program.
Wim.
I believe it may have been removed from the Server OS in 2012 in favour of using a Desktop to Offer Remote Assistance.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/hyperyash/archive/2013/01/18/remote-assistance-in-windows-8.aspx
It was 'put back' in R2 so it seems.
Anyway, i went to Server Manager, installed Remote Assistance. Rebooted.
Went to search and found remote assistance.
Yes, mine is specifically 2012 R2 Essentials. After some additional Google searching, it does appear that there is no direct "shortcut" to Remote Assistance in Windows 8, and thus I'm guessing in Server 2012 R2. Everything I find on Windows 8 indeed
says to "search" for "remote assistance" as you guys have suggested and select it from the search results. The problem is that on my 2012 R2 Essentials server, when I search for "remote assistance" I only get one result, as shown
in the first screen shot here, which if I click it takes me to the 2nd screen shot, which is of course not what I want. (That's the settings for the server itself to allow remote connection into the server from outside. I'm trying to go from the server
out to workstations.)
Then i had to go to 'get help' which may be a change from before.
Chose to help from an invite.
Go to advanced options.
Not sure if this is what you want, or need?
Yeah, I knew how to get to the Advanced settings within the basic Remote Assistance tool. The "Invite someone..." option is not showing up in my search results when I search for "remote assistance" as you can see in the above screen
shot.
If I remember correctly, the feature had already to be installed manually in Windows Server 2008 R2, so this is not a new behavior...
Correct, yes, on my SBS 2011 Essentials servers I did have to manually install the Remote Assistance "Feature". But as mentioned above, once I did install the feature, then the "Windows Remote Assistance" shortcut still showed up
under Start/All Programs/Maintenance. At the very least I would have expected it to show up in the search results, which you can see by the above screen shot, it doesn't.
SO HOW DID I SOLVE IT?
I found that if I actually search for "invite someone" then that option shows up in my search results and I can click on it and it launches the remote assistance tool as in Robert's message and screen shots above. I don't know why this
option doesn't show up when I search for just "remote assistance" as in Robert's screen shot above, but it doesn't.
In the end, creating the desktop shortcut for msra.exe /offerra seems to be the most efficient.

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