If you’re running Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, welcome home! You’ve come to the right place to find:
- Free and paid software solutions that help you better monitor and manage Microsoft Remote Desktop Services
- Consulting services to help you fix problems in your RDS environment, such as RDP disconnects, poor user experience, load balancing, and proper resource sizing
- Security resources, such as Andy Milford’s RDPwned book and RDS security consulting
- Andy Milford’s PureRDS.org blog and RDPHard YouTube channel, providing tips & tricks and his unfiltered take on the End User Computing industry
Free Software to Better Manage Microsoft Remote Desktop Services
Remote Desktop Commander Lite
For over 10 years, our free Remote Desktop Commander utility has been the go to for managing RDS environments. Similar to the original Microsoft TSAdmin utility of yesteryear – yet much better and much faster than the clunky and buggy RDS manager in Server Manager – Remote Desktop Commander is a must have tool for any RDS admin.
Download Remote Desktop Commander Lite here to get started. Later, if you want to add on even more powerful features, such as improved shadowing, delegation of session management to non-admin help desk staff, disconnect troubleshooting, and a consolidated RDS Event viewer, consider purchasing our Premium Management Features license, or better yet, licensing our Complete Monitoring and Management Bundle for RDS.
RDS Log Viewer
Need to quickly inspect all of the successful logins and login failures on RDS servers and Remote Desktop Gateways? Try the free RDS Log Viewer.
Later, if you want full reporting and geolocation services with an interactive map, check out our security monitoring and reporting features in our full Remote Desktop Commander Suite offering.
Affordable Commercial Software to Manage and Monitor Your RDS Environments
The Complete Monitoring and Management Bundle for RDS, AVD, and Other EUC Platforms
Since 2013, RDPSoft has been producing powerful yet affordable monitoring and management tools that cover all of the gaps in Microsoft’s native RDS offering. Beyond RDS, RDPSoft’s tools also work great in other EUC environments like AVD, Parallels RAS, and Citrix.
After 10+ years of development efforts directly informed by thousands of organizations, we offer a bundle of all of our tools for one low monthly or annual cost – the Complete Monitoring and Management Bundle of 4 powerful tools which:
- Collect valuable metrics from your Remote Desktop Gateways, Connection Brokers, and Session Hosts, and provide a comprehensive reporting and analysis platform for troubleshooting user experience, user activity, and performance,
- Provide comprehensive and delegated session management and client side RDP troubleshooting tools for your help desk staff,
- Perform routine, round the clock synthetic monitoring and testing of your RDS and other EUC environments, sending alerts when desktops or apps cannot be launched, or take too long to launch, and
- Track aberrant user and program behavior with the free Microsoft Sysmon utility, helping you hunt for threats and detect risky or unapproved user behaviors on EUC systems.
Remote Desktop Services Consulting Services
Having an issue with your RDS environment? Too many frequent user disconnects? Are clients experiencing sluggish performance or poor user experience? Need to make sure you have your infrastructure roles (e.g. brokers, gateways, and web access servers configured correctly)? Learn more about our RDS Performance Audit service and then contact us for a preliminary discussion of your needs.
Remote Desktop Security Audits
It’s no secret that RDP and Remote Desktop Services are both common threat vectors that Advanced Persistent Threat actors and cybercriminals exploit to spread malware, plant ransomware, and steal corporate data. However, if set up correctly with layered security techniques that incorporate multi-factor authentication and hardening at the session host level, RDS can prove highly secure and resistant to attack.
RDPSoft’s founder, Andy Milford, wrote a book called RDPwned which demonstrates how to better secure your Remote Desktop Services, and is available for only $9.99 USD on Amazon Kindle. In addition and subject to his availability, Andy also conducts security audits on Remote Desktop Services environments to look for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that could leave them more susceptible to attack. For more information, please review our RDS Security Audit service here, and then contact us for details.
Free RDS Tips & Tricks at the RDPHard Youtube Channel and PureRDS.org Blog
RDPSoft’s CEO, Andy Milford, frequently writes and records videos on various RDS topics and issues at his PureRDS.org blog and RDPHard Youtube Channel. Whether you’re completely new to RDS or are a grizzled veteran, you’ll find all sorts of tips, tricks, and EUC industry real talk that will help you better maintain your Remote Desktop Services infrastructure and keep your IT budget under control.
