

In the future, you can expect even more capabilities, such as the ability to better manage multiple connections.

These clients offer increased security, and they are a key part of our engineering roadmap moving forward. Instead, we have two great supported client options: Remote Desktop Connection and Universal Client for Windows 10. However, RDCMan has not kept pace with the level of advanced technology that we're pursuing. RDCMan is a client that is widely used to manage multiple remote desktop connections because it's a convenient option. We're increasing our investments in virtualization and remote desktops, such as Azure Virtual Desktop and RDS on Microsoft Azure. And, we recommend that you use Windows built-in Remote Desktop Connection (%windir%\system32\mstsc.exe) or universal Remote Desktop client instead of Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan).Īpplies to: Windows 10 - all editions Original KB number: 4512838 More information Microsoft took RDCMan off the market in 2020 because of security flaws, but it is back now as part of SysInternals. This tool consolidates them into groups and thus allows settings and actions to be applied to a collection of hosts. Virtualization and remote desktops are an important part of your infrastructure and work. RDCMan is for users who need to manage many RDP connections.

You can copy this file to another computer or use it to import a list of servers.

You can log off (or disconnect) all your connections in one click.Īll the settings/groups/servers you define are store in a RDG file. This mains that you can change the settings of all, or a group, of your connections in one place. The settings in each tab can be inherited from the parent group.