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Remote Desktop Connection Manager Download (RDCMan) 2.90

Posted on 27th January 2022 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Welcome to 2022 and a new release of Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) version 2.90!

The Sysinternals blog lists the following changes to RDCMan which are well worth reviewing from a security standpoint.

Receives support for Restricted Admin (/restrictedAdmin from mstsc) and Remote Credential Guard (/remoteGuard from mstsc) and bug fixes.

Below you can see the Security Settings tab with these… Read the rest “Remote Desktop Connection Manager Download (RDCMan) 2.90”

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Updating to RDCMan 2.8

Posted on 20th July 2021 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Now that we have a new version of Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan), I wanted to list out some of my initial thoughts and upgrade experience as I did encounter a couple of minor bumps. Please add a comment if you are running into issues as well please.

Like many other administrators, I heavily used RDCMan 2.2 and 2.7 over the last 11 years. This was my primary tool for managing a wide r… Read the rest “Updating to RDCMan 2.8”

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Remote Desktop Connection Manager Download (RDCMan) 2.81

Posted on 24th June 2021 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Finally we have good news for all fans of the Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) tool! It has risen from the ashes, and is now part of Sysinternals.

Over the years RDCMan built up a strong user base as it was a simple but powerful utility to manage connections to multiple machines. Sure, if you have three or four servers to manage you can get by with saved .rdp files or use the Universa… Read the rest “Remote Desktop Connection Manager Download (RDCMan) 2.81”

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RDCMan Download Removed

Posted on 7th April 2020 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Update 26-4-2021: RDCMan is now available again!

Rejoice and be thankful - see this post for more details please. I'll leave the post below for historical context.

A perennial favourite subject on the blog has been the topic of Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan). This was an internal Microsoft tool which was made available to customers. Initially version 2.2 then version 2.7 was released.

How… Read the rest “RDCMan Download Removed”

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Unable to RDP to Azure VM From Hotel WiFi

Posted on 12th May 2017 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This is one of those silly little things that comes along every so often just to mess with your head, and to cause some issues. Of course it has to happen at a time when you really want to connect to the remote machine and do some work.

This week I was at a training event for internal Microsoft engineers, and when back at the hotel I tried to connect to one of my Azure based lab VMs. As you may i… Read the rest “Unable to RDP to Azure VM From Hotel WiFi”

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Remote Desktop Connection Manager Distorted Display

Posted on 9th March 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) is a very popular remote administration tool with Microsoft admins. RDCMan allows us to minimise the number of open windows on the local machine, when connecting to multiple remote systems. At the time of writing, the latest version is 2.7 which can be downloaded here.

On my Windows 10 1511 laptop, some of my Azure VMs were not correctly rendering the di… Read the rest “Remote Desktop Connection Manager Distorted Display”

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Remote Desktop Connection Manager Download (RDCMan) 2.7

Posted on 19th November 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Update 24-6-2021: RDCMan 2.8.1 is available. Please see here.

The venerable Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) 2.2 was starting to show its age.

After a slight hiatus, RDCMan 2.7 is now available. Please say thank you to Julian Burger for the early Christmas present. Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) is a great tool to consolidate multiple RDP connections into a single window to pr… Read the rest “Remote Desktop Connection Manager Download (RDCMan) 2.7”

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Remote Desktop Connection Manager Download (RDCMan) 2.2

Posted on 19th October 2011 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) is a great tool to consolidate multiple RDP connections into a single window to prevent desktop clutter.

Update 24-6-2021: RDCMan 2.8.1 is available. Please see here.

~~Update 19-11-2014: RDCMan 2.7 is now available. Please see here.~~

~~Update 29-3-2017: 2.2 is no longer available for download - please use the 2.7 download link.~~

The tool can be downloaded from… Read the rest “Remote Desktop Connection Manager Download (RDCMan) 2.2”