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With Microsoft Remote Desktop, you can connect to a remote PC and your work resources from almost anywhere. Experience the power of Windows with RemoteFX in a Remote Desktop client designed to help you get your work done wherever you are.
Features:
Features:
- Access to remote resources through the Remote Desktop Gateway
- Secure connection to your data and applications with breakthrough Network Layer Authentication (NLA) technology
- Simple management of all remote connections from the connection center
- High quality
What's New
Version 8.0.5:
- Fixed issue where "Access Denied" was returned during Windows Logon even though credentials were correct.
- A number of bug fixes
Requirements
Intel, OS X 10.6 or later
Intel, OS X 10.6 or later
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With Microsoft Remote Desktop, you can connect to a remote PC and your work resources from almost anywhere. Experience the power of Windows with RemoteFX in a Remote Desktop client designed to help you get your work done wherever you are.
Features:
Features:
- Access to remote resources through the Remote Desktop Gateway
- Secure connection to your data and applications with breakthrough Network Layer Authentication (NLA) technology
- Simple management of all remote connections from the connection center
- High quality video and sound streaming with improved compression and bandwidth usage
- Easy connection to multiple monitors or projectors for presentations
- Print from Windows applications to any printer configured on your Mac
- Access local files on your Mac from your Windows applications
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Jhwade reviewed on 14 Mar 2014
I switched to CoRD and am having a much better experience.
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pjmeli reviewed on 14 Dec 2013
Can't rate it if I can't use it.
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There are other features as well that aren't available or are limited in the Home/Basic versions of Windows, hence why they are called 'Home/Basic', intended for single user deployment in non-network/multi computer environments, and also why those versions cost less than Pro/Ultimate/Enterprise versions.
If you haven't tried already, an alternative for you if using Windows Home on the Host, is a VNC-based product. It will require that you install a VNC client (on the PC that will remote in) AND server (on the PC you want to control), but it should work. If you've already tried VNC and weren't happy another alternative might be to use something like LogMeIn or TeamViewer, which may seem like overkill to connect two local network machines, but they do have the advantage of allowing connections between machines totally separated and not on the same network, without all the hassle of fiddling with router and port configurations. It won't be as fast as a direct local connection like VNC or Remote Desktop, but it's an option. Good luck!
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Then why'd you rate it?!
Mcr is right. This is intended to connect to servers, or Windows Pro and above. The fact is, this product works, and it works well. And I'm glad to have an official Microsoft version to do it. It's annoying to have a product down-rated by people who don't know what the hell they're doing.
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Donmontalvo reviewed on 04 Dec 2013
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bruceo7205 reviewed on 20 Nov 2013
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Stickman67 reviewed on 24 Oct 2013
The big shortcoming of this over RDC is that there is no obvious (to me, anyway) to "[a]ccess local files on your Mac from your Windows applications" (as listed in the Features of the application).
Accessing files from my local hard drive and using them in the Windows Server environment is a major part of my workflow. Workarounds, such as storing files in cloud-based environments and accessing that way, add steps and complications that direct access to files (such as was available in RDC) neatly avoided.
In general, then, a very good piece of software. Just the one, rather glaring omission, from my point of view.
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When you create a new connection or edit an existing one, its there under the Redirection tab next to the General and Session tabs.
Redirection is not a very descriptive name for it seeing how it was located in RDC under "Drives".
Anyway, you basically pick a Mac folder which will be mounted on the Windows side as another drive, next to the C: drive or removable/network devices.
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Agrothey reviewed on 21 Oct 2013
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http://derflounder.wordpress.com/2013/10/19/downloading-microsofts-remote-desktop-installer-package-from-the-app-store/
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Stickman67 reviewed on 11 Jun 2013
And then it crashes ...
Or it doesn't crash while I'm using it, and I log off the server, and it crashes ...
It's not unstable to the point of being unusable, but it is certainly far from ideal in this respect.
It's been more than two years without an update, so the situation simply has not improved.
I'm now using CoRD, but would happily give RDC another go if I thought I could rely on it every time. For now, though, that simply isn't the case.
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2003 servers are accessible with no problem. Re-installing version 2.0.1 of RDC restored functionality.
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So Remote Desktop Connection freezeups are affecting or causing the network stack on the mac to freeze.
I thought this was related to my mac, but I never experience the issue when using CorD. Also, this thread at seems to agree with me?
Has anyone else seen this issue?
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This has been reported over and over through the course of the beta.
I worked extensively in graphics and have tried to figure out how to go to full screen (20") on my IMAC.
The normal method of dragging the lower right hand border of the remote screen does not work.
Can anyone assist? I am computer challenged so keep it simple, if possible.
Thanks much.
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RDC > Preferences > Display > Remote Desktop Size
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"...Multiple Sessions
Lets you connect to multiple Windows-based computers at the same time..."
I cannot find it anywhere on the program :(
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Remote Desktop Connection Client supports multiple simultaneous Remote Desktop Connection sessions. You can save the connection settings for different Windows-based computers to Remote Desktop Connection settings files, and double-click those files to open multiple sessions independent of each other.
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The Mac cannot connect to the Windows-based computer
Can somebody please help me.
I'm running an Intel Duo Core iMac, trying to connect to Windows Vista.
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The following Windows products support Remote Desktop connections:
Windows Vista Business
Windows Vista Enterprise
Windows Vista Ultimate
You are trying to connect to one of those versions?
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Does anyone know how to get the annoying registration & agreement windows away?
The thing is I'm really worried about my kids activities on the internet, I'm sure you all know what I mean. My home network is fine and I can even enter my kid's pc and watch some folders that I allowed for sharing, such as the Internet history folders.
However I really want to monitor their display from my Mac without them knowing.
I have recently tried the Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) from MS site http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/otherproducts.aspx?pid=remotedesktopclient it works fine and I can actually view and use my kids XP on my Mac. However, when I log to my kids PC their display gets locked, and when they log in, I lose connection. In other words only when of us can view the XP display.
Can anyone please tell me how can I monitor my kids XP display via RDN when their on the net , without them knowing, form my OS X Mac?
Downloaded it 4 times on different locations, still it stays classic.
My Powermac G4 doesn't support classic, now what?!
I just want to remote my pc from my mac, like apple remote desktop does, is there another way?
If it's trying to open in Classic, "Get Info" on the application and make sure the "Open in the Classic Environment" box is unchecked. If that fails, do a Google search for help, or check one of the various support forums.
In any case, giving an application a one-star review because your system is not behaving correctly is really uncool. Like many other posters have said, this application does one thing, and it does it well.
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Do yourself a favor and learn how to install things on your machine before you go around looking like a idiot blaming others for your lack of common sense to use something that clearly works.
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