

These users benefit from RDCMan since it reduces desktop clutter by combining several RDP connections into a single window. System administrators, server lab managers, developers, and testers fall under this category. The application is especially helpful for people who operate with large server farms or groups of computers when regular access to each machine is necessary. They can also use various RDP settings for various servers or groups and save user credentials from enabling automatic authentication on RDP and remote desktop service servers. System administrators can manage multiple RDP connections in a single window using RDCMan. It was developed by Windows Live Experiences developer Julian Burger to simplify the management of several remote desktop protocol connections. It’s free and it has everything I need for a remote connection manager.Multiple remote desktop connections can be grouped, managed, and organized by IT administrators using the free Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) product from Microsoft. I am currently using Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager Free version. However, it doesn’t seem to offer enough for me to switch over. Overall, it has some improvement that you can see from this latest release.

But I do find it’s not smart-size enough, meaning that if I resize the RDCMan main window, I will have to reconnect the connections to get the RDP size auto-fit.

The display size in this version of RDCMan does support your window size automatically, which is very nice. To import the list of computers, prepare a text file with one server name per line format first and go to Edit > Import servers.Īll settings you find in standalone Remote Desktop Client are available in RDCMan, including all local resources sharing as well as support for RD Gateway. Go to Edit and choose to Add smart group… There are also smart groups that get populated dynamically based on a set of rules. This can be very beneficial because when you change your password you just need to change the password stored in RDCMan. Connections can be managed in groups so they can all be sharing the same login settings from a parent group or a credential store. RDCMan manages multiple remote desktop connections, not only servers but workstations as well. I couldn’t wait and give it a try real quick but was disappointed that there are many new things to see. It’s been a long time and finally, the Microsoft version of Remote Desktop Connection Manager gets a new update.
