Greetings friends and current Remote Desktop Commander customers! We’ve just released Version 7 of our Remote Desktop Commander solution. This major release version introduces many new features- such as a brand new DEX (Digital Employee eXperience) dashboard, automated agent service deployments with WinRM, automatic enhanced user activity monitoring (screenshots and window caption recording without login scripts), new improved database management features, and much more.
Remote Desktop Commander v6.5 Now Available!
Greetings friends and current Remote Desktop Commander customers! We’ve just released Version 6.5 of our Remote Desktop Commander solution. This mid-cycle release version introduces new features such as a consolidated RDS Event Viewer and automatic adjustment of monitored session hosts via broker consultation.
Remote Desktop Commander v6.0+ Highlights
The Version 6.0 release of our Remote Desktop Commander solution offered something for everyone – whether using our free Remote Desktop Commander Lite Client or licensed for our full Remote Desktop Commander Suite.
For instance, here are just some of the notable capabilities:
- The Remote Desktop Commander Suite is packed with expanded capabilities – including an extremely powerful Top Level Deployment Status Dashboard that shows you the health of your Remote Desktop Gateways, Remote Desktop Connection Brokers, and Session Hosts all in an interactive window. This dashboard also integrates with our Remote Desktop Canary product to show current RDS login times in your RDS deployment and alert you to any RDP login issues.
- The Remote Desktop Commander Client has been optimized for additional speed and efficiency when it loads collections full of session hosts.
Remote Desktop Commander v5.1 Now Available!
Greetings friends and current Remote Desktop Commander customers! We’ve just released Version 5.1 of our Remote Desktop Commander Lite, Premium Management Features, and Remote Desktop Commander Suite solutions. While largely a maintenance release, Version 5.1 introduces a new Drain Mode Helper for RDS collections and AVD hostpools – and this feature is available in both the free Remote Desktop Commander Lite and commercial Premium Management Features and Remote Desktop Commander Suite releases.
How To View Remote Desktop Sessions In 3 Different Ways
You have likely noticed that viewing Remote Desktop sessions and related details has become increasingly difficult. This is largely a result of some recent developments: There was the overhaul of Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012 R2 and later server operating systems. Then, there’s the emergence of Windows Virtual Desktop in Azure.
Microsoft removed the old TSAdmin utility in Windows Server 2012 R2, replacing it with the often cumbersome Remote Desktop Services Manager in the Server Manager utility. It is scarce in detail regarding these sessions, and it does not scale well in larger environments. In addition, attempting to shadow remote desktop sessions with MSTSC often does not work as expected, especially with multiple monitor sessions.
And what about viewing Remote Desktop sessions in Windows Virtual Desktop? Well, you don’t get much of a break there either. Currently, you must use the Windows Virtual Desktop control plane in the Azure Portal, which is even more feature limited than the Remote Desktop Services Manager in Server Manager for classic RDS deployments.
At RDPSoft, we identified these pain points many years ago, and created an assortment of free and commercial solutions to solve these problems. Here are three different ways we’ve made viewing Remote Desktop sessions easier.
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