Some of you may already know, i’m working for ConneXin AG in Switzerland. We do – among other things – manage infrastructures for our customers. Since a very frequent and more than daily task is to connect to remote servers and workstations using Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), i’ve started writing an application to have this task formed more comfortable. The result is the very cool ConneXin Remote Desktops V2 Utility.
I just published it on our site. Get a free copy here
here are some Screenshots
Main Window

Overview

ConneXin Remote Desktops v2 Active Directory Importer

feel free to comment (ideas are welcome)
Did you know, when you connect to one of your Systems using Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection, you can choose whether you want to connect to the console or create a new terminal server session. If you always create console sessions, you will be able to re-use or reconnect to the last session..
Until today, i didn’t know, that a console session can be created using the Remote Desktop Connection Client GUI. In the past i always did something similiar to:
MSTSC.exe /v:MYSERVER:[PORT] /CONSOLE
or on systems with newer Remote Desktop Client Versions
MSTSC.exe /v:MYSERVER:[PORT] /ADMIN
When playing with display settings, local resources like (connecting printer or drives over a Remote Desktop Connection) the command line got a bit complex. Now since i bought an Apple MacBook Pro, and i faced the challenge to connect to my servers using the Mac OSX implementation of the Remote Desktop Connection, i realized, that it is possible to place a /CONSOLE or /ADMIN Parameter directly into the address textfield of the Mac OSX Remote Desktop Connection Client. So i figured out, that this can also be done using the Windows Remote Desktop Connection Client.

RemoteDesktopConnection_AsAdmin_Console

Apple_Mac_OSX_RemoteDesktopConnection_Console