Remote Desktop Organizer Download
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The client area display depends on the node selected in the tree. If a server is selected, the client area shows the remote desktop client for that server. If a group is selected, the client area shows a thumbnail of the servers within that group. The size of the client area can be specified via the View menu, as well as resizing the RDCMan window. Use [View.Lock window size] to prevent the window from being resized by dragging the frame.
The top-level unit of organization in RDCMan is a remote desktop file group. File groups are collections of groups and/or servers that are stored in a single physical file. Servers can't live outside of a group and groups can't live outside of a file.
Certain key combinations and Windows actions can be tricky to perform over the remote session--particularly when RDCMan itself is started within a remote session--e.g. Ctrl+Alt+Del. These are available from the [Session.Send keys] and [Session.Remote actions] menu items.
Click to select gives focus to remote client
When selecting a node in the server tree control with a mouse click, the default behavior is to keep focus on the tree control. There is an option to change this to focus on the selected server.
Many of the remote desktop hot keys are configurable. There is a limited mapping, however. For example if the default key is ALT-something, the replacement must also be ALT-something. To change a hot key, navigate to the text box for the hot key and press the new "something" key.
Depending on the bandwidth available from your machine, you will want to limit Windows UI features to improve performance. The connection speed drop down can be used to set all options together, or they can be individually customized. The features are: desktop backgrounds, showing full window contents when dragging, menu and window animation, and windows themes.
Show full screen connection bar
Auto-hide connection bar
When a server is displayed in full-screen mode, the remote desktop activeX control provides a UI connection bar at the top of the window. This bar can be toggled on and off. When it is on, you can choose to have it pinned or auto-hidden.
Use multiple monitors when necessary
By default, a full screen session is restricted to the monitor containing the server window. You can enable multiple monitor spanning in the full screen options. If the remote desktop is larger than window's monitor, it will span as many monitors as needed to fit the remote session. Note that only rectangular areas are used, so if you have two monitors with differing vertical resolutions, the shorter of the two is used. Also, there is a hard limit of 4096x2048 for the remote desktop control.
Groups and Servers have a number of tabbed property pages with various customization options. Many of these pages are common to groups and servers. When the "Inherit from parent" check box is checked, the settings that follow are inherited from the parent container. Most server-related changes, e.g. remote desktop size, will not take effect until the next time that server is connected.
The Logon Credentials property page contains options pertaining to remote login. The user name, password, and domain are set on this page. The domain and user name can be specified together by using the domain\user format. When logging in to a machine "domain" rather than a Windows domain, you can specify [server] or [display]. This former will be substituted with the server name, the latter with the display name, at logon time. It is useful when you have a group of machines which require logging in as administrator. The Logon Settings entered in the properties pages are used by default for new connections. If you want to temporarily customize these settings for a new connection, connect using the Connect As menu item.
The size of the remote desktop is specified on this page. This is the logical desktop size, not the physical client view of it. For example, if the remote desktop size is 1280 x 1024 and client size is 1024 x 768, you would see a 1024 x 768 view of the remote desktop with scroll bars. If the client size were 1600 x 1200, the entire remote desktop would be visible, offset by a gray border.
Specifying "Same as client area" will make the remote desktop the same size as the RDCMan client panel, i.e. the RDCMan window client area excluding the server tree. Specifying "Full screen" will make the remote desktop the same size as the screen that the server is viewed on. Note that the remote desktop size is determined upon connecting to a server. Changing this setting for a connected server will have no effect.
The maximum size of the remote desktop is determined by the version of the remote desktop activeX control. Version 5 (pre-Vista) had a maximum of 1600 x 1200; Version 6 (Vista) has a maximum of 4096 x 2048. This limit is enforced at connection time, not during data entry. This is in case the same RDCMan file is shared by multiple computers.
Various resources of the remote server may be delivered to the client. The remote computer sound can be played locally, played remotely, or disabled entirely. Windows key combinations (for example, those involving the actual Windows key as well as other specials like Alt+Tab) can be applied always to the client machine, always to the remote machine, or to the client when windowed and the remote machine when in full screen mode. Client drive, port, printer, smart card, and clipboard resources can be automatically shared to the remote machine.
The first option is: thumbnail scale. This specifies how many thumbnail units to allocate to the display of a given server. All servers default to a scale of 1. You can change this to increase the display of important servers. For example, a server could be scaled by 3 or 5 making the remote session quite usable in the thumbnail display while still permitting a view of many other servers. This is the only option for servers.
Note that the account running RDCMan must have Query Information permissions on the remote server to list the sessions. Furthermore, the remote session must be directly reachable rather than via a gateway server. Disconnect and Logoff permissions must be granted to perform those operations. See msdn for more information on remote desktop permissions.
The download has been tested by an editor here on a PC and a list of features has been compiled; see below. We've also created some screenshots of Remote Desktop Organizer to illustrate the user interface and show the overall usage and features of this remote connection management program.
Remote Desktop Organizer is a tabbed remote desktop client, allowing you to easily organize all of your remote desktop connections in one place.The application is very easy to use and provides support for multiple remote sessions. It enables you to organize your server list by simply dragging and dropping items to separate folders.
Features of Remote Desktop Organizer
- Audio redirection: Redirect audio from remote desktops to local speakers.
- Automation: Automatically launch applications and scripts on connection.
- Clipboard sync: Synchronize clipboard contents between local and remote computers.
- Connectivity: Access remote desktops from anywhere in the world.
- Customization: Customize the look and feel of remote desktops with themes and wallpapers.
- Drag-and-drop: Easily move files and folders between local and remote computers.
- File manager: View and manage files and folders on remote computers.
- Logging: Log user activities for auditing and compliance purposes.
- Management: Manage multiple remote desktops from a single interface.
- Multi-monitor: Support for multiple monitors on remote desktops.
- Network discovery: Automatically discover and connect to remote desktops on the local network.
- Remote control: Remotely control and monitor remote desktops.
- Remote printing: Print to local printers from remote desktops.
- Security: Securely connect to remote desktops with end-to-end encryption.
- Sharing: Share files and folders between local and remote computers.
I feel really silly asking this, but it's been awhile since I had to do it and I for the life of me cannot remember what keys I need to push-I have a remote desktop session opened in another remote desktop session and need to be able to close out of it. I've tried googling this issue but cannot seem to find the right words to ask. Thanks in advance, and I apologize for the simplicity.
Sometimes getting out "full screen" mode, providing scroll bars helps to make sense of which desktop you are logging out of....... it can get confusing when you RDP from an RDP session.... I typically just don't make the second, third, 17th RDP session full screen and it helps. The other suggestion that might work (once again depending on scenario) is using the "Remote Desktops" mmc and adding all servers you might RDP in to on the left.... displaying them on the right...
Remote Desktop Organizer is a tabbed remote desktop client, allowing you to easily organize all of your remote desktop connections in one place. You can store login credential and connection preferences for each connection and organize them into folders and sub-folders.
There are many remote desktop connection problems that administrators may encounter, including network failure, Secure Sockets Layer certificate issues, authentication troubles and capacity limitations.
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