It is similar to the built-in MMC Remote Desktops snap-in, but more flexible. It is useful for managing server labs where you need regular access to each machine such as automated checkin systems and data centers. There you will find a menu where you can control all the normal RDP properties. RDCMan manages multiple remote desktop connections. But you can change this by right-clicking on a group or server object and going to properties. Obviously, you still have to create your VPN connection to the server (or if you’re using this internally)…you have to be able to route to the server… but other then that this will store all your information in one place!īy default subgroups and server, connection inherits connection and username and password information from their parent group. Or if you work for a company that does their own IT work, you could create multiple groups and organize all the servers for easy access. Then if other engineers need to connect to a server for maintenance they can open the profile and have the connection information for that customer. Plus you can save the profiles… so for a place like SMSproTech I can go through and add in all the servers for a particular company and then save that profile into a customer profile in our ERP system. So basically what we have is a one-stop place to store all credentials (if you choose) and all connection information for every server that has RDP enabled. After launching and adding some groups here is what I have: It is a very small download, about 760KB, and it installs in about 5 seconds. For those of you like me who don’t know what Microsoft Connect is, it is a site where they post beta products and you can download them and try them out for free!Īnyhow what brought me to the site was Windows Home Server 2011, but what I didn’t expect to find was a product called Remote Desktop Connection Manager. I had never heard of it before and thought I would see what was all available on it. This morning while wasting some time before the baby’s doctor appointment I was browsing around on Microsoft Connect.
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