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Installation is a breeze you just double-click it and then click Next a couple of times. This TechRepublic gallery is also available as a Servers and Storage blog post. Update for Windows Vista (KB969084) u2013 RDCMan 7 for Windows Vista.Update for Windows XP (KB969085) u2013 RDCMan 7 for Windows XP SP3.I also included a link to RDCMan 7 for Windows Vista below. Note: My default is Windows 7, but if you intend to use RDCMan with Windows XP, you may need to install version 6 or higher of the Remote Desktop Connection client software. Here are configuration tips for getting the most out of RDCMan. You can try any free remote access tools to use your PC remotely, but only a few have a mobile app. You can open files, launch applications, and. How to Use the Remote Desktop App to Access Your PC. RDCMan aggregates Windows server remote desktop connections so administrators can connect to server with a point and a click rather than hunting around for a connection. With its intuitive interface, you can interact with the remote screen as if you were sitting in front of it. Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) makes our administrative task of keeping track of remote desktop connections much easier. For example, is it the server named SQL04 or is it the server named SQL08 that houses the SharePoint database? As you move into larger environments, it gets even worse as the number of servers grows exponentially. It can be a challenge to keep track of our 15 physical servers and our 40 – 45 virtual servers, particularly when it comes to connecting to multiple servers that house related servers. In our small IT shop, my staff and I wear many hats, and we all have varying needs to jump on different servers to accomplish a necessary task. Here’s a screenshot from my RDP session with about 10% scaling:īased on my testing it works just like it should: You just enabled smart sizing, and forget about it.There are days when I look down at my taskbar and see way too many open connections to servers and I can’t remember what’s what. You can now resize the RDP window and see smart sizing in action. Now, in the windowed RDP session, click the top-left corner and in the menu enable Smart sizing: This actually toggles between full screen and windowed mode. On my laptop it actually requires Ctrl-Alt-Fn-Break, since Pause/Break button nowadays seems to have to functions. Depending where you put the slider specifies the max size of the remote session.Īfter you’ve connected, press Ctrl-Alt-Break. When connecting, you can connect with any display size. My server is Windows Server 2019 and my client workstation is Windows 10 (1809), so that’s more than enough to get dynamic scaling to work. While the size of the Remote Desktop session can still be set when you initiate the connection, you can also now freely adjust it while being connected.įirst, you’ll need to connect from Windows 8.1/Server 2012 R2 to Windows 8.1/Server 2012 R2 (or newer). In Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2, Remote Desktop Connection client ( mstsc.exe) introduces resolution and scaling support, among other things. There’s also the fabulous Remote Desktop Manager, which does all this and “just works”, but it’s not free Admittedly, paying for good software is something we all should do more often, but still, $84,99 for a tool I already (kind of) have as part of the OS seems too steep. Several tools, like Remote Desktop Connection Manager from Microsoft ( download) have kind of resolved this issue, but it would always mean an additional software install on whatever host system you were working on. Just small enough as not to fill your desktop (and to fit in a window, so less than your max resolution on the host), but large enough to actually be useful. Before clicking Connect you have to scroll the slider from Large (Full screen) to something smaller. You first have to close the current connection, and start a new connection. Experienced RDP users know how to do this, but less regular users always seem to struggle with this view: Remote Desktop with default settings My number one gripe with RDP has in the past few years been the amazingly clumsy way to resize a remote session from full screen to something smaller. Today while being connected to my home server to do some development work I decided to test if the new features in Remote Desktop (RDP) work or provide any real benefits. I remember reading about this feature when Windows 8.1 was made generally available in late 2013, but I didn’t have time then to try this out. Making Remote Desktop fun again: Dynamic resizing and resolution changes while connected Photo by /
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