Manually managing remote connections eats up time you could be spending on higher priority tasks. Using a remote desktop connection manager allows you to focus on more important things. My top choices are SolarWinds ® Dameware ® Remote Support (DRS) for on-premises use and SolarWinds Dameware Remote Everywhere (DRE) for use in the cloud. Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan).Read on to learn more about the best remote desktop connection managers or click on the links below to jump ahead to each tool review. What Is a Remote Desktop Connection Manager?Ī remote desktop connection manager is used to manage remote desktop administration for the different connections and sessions you have. Typical enterprises have multiple Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) sessions per day and managing these manually means having to repeatedly enter your credentials. Logging in and keeping track of these sessions can become tiresome even without having to make SSH or Telnet connections for troubleshooting.Ī remote desktop connection manager or RDP client consolidates your connections in one place, so you don’t have to log in to numerous remote connection sessions per day. See here for a post that has all the details you need to get started.There are several good remote desktop connection managers available today.
The DNS name of the cloud service and the port of the Remote Desktop endpoint need to be entered in separate places in the RDCMan profile for your VM. There is a trick to getting RDCMan to work with Azure VMs which can cause endless frustration if you don't know it. In addition RDPMan is able to save your logon credentials and if you are in an environment where it's safe to do this it's a great time-saver. I highly recommend this for organising your RDP connections to your Azure (or any other) Windows VMs. Fast-forward to 2014 and there is now a new 2.7 version, as before available as a free download from Microsoft. For many years it was stuck on version 2.2 published in 2010, probably because it originated as a tool used by Microsoft engineering and technical staff and wasn't the focus of any official attention.
There are other tools but this one is simple and does the job very nicely. There was, in the form of a nifty utility called Remote Desktop Connection Manager or RDCMan. Years ago when I first started working with Hyper-V I soon realised there must be a better way of remoting to servers than using the client built in to Windows. Organise RDP Connections with Remote Desktop Connection Manager Posted by Graham Smith on DecemNo Comments (click here to comment)
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