Anyone who has worked as part of the support staff or as a network administrator surely understands how important it is to access multiple workstations and servers remotely. That explains why an application to help you manage all your remote connections and passwords from a single place, such as Remote Desktop Manager, is always welcome. The application has a nice ribbon-based interface, which is similar to those of Microsoft Office products. Besides, it has a contextual dashboard that allows accessing most built-in tools and scripts. However, using the program obviously requires at least basic understanding of network technologies.
Fortunately, Remote Desktop Manager allows for data sharing with other tools of the same kind. In this respect, it can import data from such similar utilities as RDP, TeamViewer, Office and mRemote, to mention but a few. Likewise, it allows you to export data in various formats, particularly XML, which is supported by most tools. Similarly, you can share information with other computers by using the developer’s on-the-cloud service to store remote connection settings and passwords. It’s good to notice that this is completely optional, in case you’re concerned about your privacy.
This utility supports an incredible number of remote connection types, including remote desktop, CloudExplorer, FTP and shared folders. In this regard, there are around 20 types of remote desktop connections in the standard version and many more in the paid one. Besides, the program also supports creating virtual private networks. In fact, it seems that no type of remote connection has been neglected here. However, if you need to expand the program’s functionalities, it’s good to know that it supports scripting as well as installing add-ons.
All in all, Remote Desktop Manager definitely deserves a try. It has the advantage of supporting a huge number of connection protocols in addition to Microsoft Remote Desktop. Sadly, I really wish the help documentation could be better structured.
v2019.1 [Jun 19, 2019]
- Added diagnostic for Devolutions Account Login.
- Added thumbnail support for all the Consoles (AD, Terminals, AWS...).
- Added thumbnail support for embedded IE and embedded Chrome.
- Changed the default value for session recording to be inherited instead of root. Also added inherited as a choice to the filename.
- Improved the thumbnail with a context menu and a color indicator related to the tab color.
- Fixed a thumbnail scroll artifact.
- Fixed a tree view refresh issue on edit.
- Fixed an issue with the certificate prompt behind the main window.
- Fixed interactive authentication, bug introduced with new feature of 2FA NOT on Terminal authentication.
- Fixed jump host for SSH.
- Fixed possible crash when unable to write logs in Devolutions Terminal.
- Fixed quickconnect "close after connect" not working.
- Fixed Terminal session recording.
Excellent tool for remotely controlling other computers. It allows you to establish a secure connection to another computer and view programs in text mode
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