Microsoft Remote Desktop For Mac How To Add An Rdp Connector

First published on CloudBlogs on Jul, 01 2009 NOTE: This is an old post. To learn about RDS in Windows Server 2016, please visit our Introduction: Multiple monitor support for Remote Desktop Services allows users to open a Remote Desktop connection expanded across all the monitors on the client computer regardless of the client monitor configuration. With this feature, the user can fully utilize all the monitors connected to the client computer for the Remote Desktop connection thereby providing extra desktop space and an almost seamless experience with the client desktop that is much improved over “Span mode”. This feature will be part of Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 release and works for connections to another client machine (physical or VM), or a Remote Desktop Session Host. How to use Remote Desktop Multimon feature: To use this feature, you must: • Connect using the Remote Desktop Client 7.0 (mstsc.exe) available initially on Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2.

Should have figured since I've been using the 'Remote Desktop Connection for Mac' client for perhaps 8 years. The 'Microsoft Remote Desktop 8.0' application in the Apple Store is free, and I can get to all my Win 2012 and Win 2016 servers now.

• Enable Multimon using one of the three methods described below: a. Click “Use all monitors for the remote session” in the client (mstsc.exe) window. Use the “/multimon” switch on the mstsc.exe command line. Add “Use Multimon:i:1” to the RDP file. • Connect to a computer running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. How does it look? Currently this feature displays the remote desktop on all the monitors available on the client computer. Quicken 2015 upgrade download.

It can handle any client monitor configuration supported by Windows. The following images show the Remote Desktop Multimon feature in various configurations: Display Settings UI inside a Remote Desktop session showing multiple monitors Remote Desktop Multimon Session with 5 monitors PowerPoint inside Remote Desktop session showing multiple monitors How is this different from “Span” mode?

Span mode, introduced in Vista, allows the remote desktop to span across all monitors on the client as long as the monitors are arranged to form a rectangle. The remote session created when using span mode is still a single-monitor session. With multimon support, each monitor on the client machine is viewed as a distinct monitor in the remote session. Due to this fundamental difference, span mode has some restrictions that true multimon does not: 1. The primary monitor must be leftmost. The set of monitors must form a rectangle (i.e.