Sweet! Remote Desktop Tools

A while back I found a really cool tool on CodePlex called Terminals.  It allows you to store all you RDP, VNC, VMRC, RAS, Telnet, SSH, ICA Citrix, Amazon S3, etc in the same interface.  It has a really useful tabbing feature that tabs out all the active connections you have for quick switching. If you work in the RDC world its a must check out.

http://www.codeplex.com/Terminals

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Today a fellow colleague sent me an email telling me about this cool little MMC Snap-In. This will allow you to list all of the computers and Servers and connect to them via RDP Sessions quickly. This snap-in is included in the Adminpak.msi.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309375 

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http://www.microsoft.com/downloadS/details.aspx?FamilyID=c16ae515-c8f4-47ef-a1e4-a8dcbacff8e3&displaylang=en 

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After installing the admin pack, click Start –> Run –> tsmmc.msc.

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This will open the MMC.  Add you connections. Then File –> Save As to save the connections.

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I work with around 6 servers and on a daily basis and this makes it really easy to login and logout quickly. Anyone else have any cool RDP tools?

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Published Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:45 AM by rojay12
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Comments

# re: Sweet! Remote Desktop Tools

Thursday, March 12, 2009 5:15 PM by mremote

check out www.mremote.org its imho alot better

# re: Sweet! Remote Desktop Tools

Friday, July 31, 2009 3:21 PM by Hugo

i'm a fan of royal ts (www.code4ward.net)

# re: Sweet! Remote Desktop Tools

Friday, October 23, 2009 1:27 PM by Greg

I've been using the MS remote desktops tool and found it *VERY* lacking.  The CodePlex Terminals app above was much better - however I tried mremote based on the comment above and found that it is much more polished, I'll stick with that.  Thanks!!

# re: Sweet! Remote Desktop Tools

Thursday, May 05, 2011 10:49 PM by John

With Windows 7 you can have the same tols, only the package name is Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) and can be found at www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx for both x86 and x64.

BTW, thanks for a great post - Never would have thought to install those tools for this functionality wihtout your post!

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